September 2009
1 post
WatchTim Brown on creativity and play | Video on TED.com
August 2009
2 posts
July 2009
1 post
100 Years of Design Manifestos -- Social Design... →
Since the days of radical printer-pamphleteers, design and designers have a long history of fighting for what’s right and working to transform society. The rise of the literary form of the manifesto also parallels the rise of modernity and the spread of letterpress printing.
This list of design manifestos was buried in a previous post but deserves its own permalink. It is largely drawn from Mario...
November 2008
15 posts
““It’s important to come up with the best text possible, because despite the term...”
– Choosing the Language for a User Interface :: UXmatters
Design Guidelines: Content
Make information easy to find with clear headings and meaningful sub-headings (not ‘clever’ ones).
Break up the information into manageable pieces.
Put the pieces in a logical order for your readers.
Keep your sentences short and employ one idea per paragraph.
Use the ‘inverted pyramid’ style: conclusion (context) first, results later.
Talk to your readers. Use “you”.
Write in the...
Making decisions about User Research
Importance to the business: Just how important is the project/application in meeting organisational/business goals?
Importance to users: What will happen to users if you mess up. Will they be harmed, or will they just go elsewhere?
$$: How much is the project going to cost? (i.e. how much will be wasted if you mess up)
Profile/politics: What sort of profile does your project have? Is there a...
HiPPO - Highest Paid Person's Opinion
What have I been doing? It turns out there is a phrase for it, and it’s been around a while.
“HiPPO’s rule the world when it comes to creating customer experiences. And that’s a bad thing. No matter what you think the optimal customer experience should be on the website it is quite likely that you walk into a meeting room, or office, and regardless of your competence the HiPPO decides what goes...
Agile + UX: six strategies for more agile user... →
Six ways to be more agile and better integrate user experience and information architecture into agile development teams.
“In the beginning, there was the Bradley Effect.The Bradley Effect describes an...”
– excerpted from WHY THE BRADLEY EFFECT IS NOT ABOUT RACE by Kath Straub (User Experience Design Update Newsletter - October, 2008., Human Factors International) View Online
“Rapid Iterative Testing and Evaluation, typically referred to as...”
– RITE Method
WatchSeattle Conference on Scalability: Scaling Google for Every User - Marissa Myer, Vice President, Search Products & User Experience
WatchBlaise Aguera y Arcas demos Photosynth | sourced from TED.com
Photosynth is a software application from Microsoft Live Labs and the University of Washington that analyzes digital photographs to build a three-dimensional point cloud of a photographed object. Pattern recognition components compare portions of images to create points, which are then compared to convert the image into a model. Users...
“In computing, ribbons are graphical user interface widgets composed of a strip...”
– Ribbon (computing) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“What is a heuristic evaluation? The goal of heuristic evaluation is to find...”
– Heuristic Evaluation - Usability Methods | Usability.gov
October 2008
1 post
The Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI)