What Goes into a Well-Done Critique
Jared Spool writes an excellent article describing how to give a good design critique. A well-done critique is a way to step away from the specifics of the design process and better understand how to...
View ArticleHow do you design? Ebook
Hugh Dubberly has released a free E Book on design and development models.In this book, I have collected over one-hundred descriptions of design and development processes, from architecture, industrial...
View ArticleSoftware Tool Design: Design by Sketching
The second part of Stephen Chambers' series on designing the ANTS Profiler tool, a .NET code profiler, discusses how a team leader challenged a group to really work collaboratively on developing the...
View ArticleDoing Sketch Iterations
These are just more illustrations of the process I've been using for design iterations. When I have the Konigi notebook available, I'll be doing some screencasts to describe this process in detail, and...
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User Centered Design Work Process Toolkit
This is a nice diagram of the user centered design process and an overview of the methods and techniques which might be used. The HCI toolkit is managed by Bas Leurs for Rotterdam University of Applied...
View ArticleDesigning by Writing
I love what tiny gigantic has written in this great short post about designing by writing (or the non-iterative design process). I agree wholeheartedly, although I think of writing as part of design to...
View ArticleIs Good Design Replicable?
Joshua Porter's post about whether good design can be replicated is fabulous. What I like is the idea that there isn't a solid set of methods that you can reuse in every case and think it might...
View Article20 Steps to Better Wireframing
Think Vitamin's Clive Howard says "Wireframing is one of the first steps in your planning process and arguably it’s one of the most important ones." In this article, Howard goes through the wireframing...
View ArticleThe Language We Use
In "The language we use," David Malouf discusses how ideas about user interaction can become so ingrained in what we are familiar with, that our language begins to reflect that familiarity. That can...
View ArticleHow Software is Built: Interview with Liz Danzico
The Scott Swigart and Sean Campbell interview Liz Danico to discuss user experience on the How Software is Built blog. The lengthy conversation covers a wide array of topics including Liz's view of the...
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Schedule and Cost Summary Calculator Template
So it's my birthday today. One thing that I've learned about birthdays from having a child, is that it's a lot of fun to give gifts away on your birthday. I'm now a seasoned goodie bag shopper and can...
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User Research for Personas and Other Audience Models
In UX Matters, Steve Baty describes the user research methodologies we can draw on when creating audience models and some alternative ways of communicating the results of an audience analysis.
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Highrise Contacts Design Exploration
Jason Zimdars describes the explorations and iterations over 37 Signals' Highrise CRM application. There's some nice description of the decision making process to arrive at modifications to the UI that...
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A Dialogue on Design With Intent
I enjoyed reading two excellent articles in a dialogue about design with intent—the practice of strategically designing to influencing user behavior—and how user centered design process fits or is at...
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That design is money! Pentagram redesigns an ATM UI
Holger Struppek has written an article describing the design and prototyping process for the redesign of the Wells Fargo ATM user interface by Pentagram. This is a rare, in-depth look at the...
View ArticleWireframing over the shoulder
This is a video on From The Couch podcast showing David Perel sketching wireframes for the Obox Theme. The first half shows David sketching, and during the second half he talks through the...
View ArticleThe 10% Myth and How to Put Your Creative Process on Autopilot
What if we could eliminate noise and give our brains space to do harder work or process different things?The Costanza PrincipleThere's a particularly funny episode of Seinfeld titled "The Abstinence,"...
View ArticleMichael Bierut: 5 Secrets from 86 Notebooks
This is fantastic presentation from Pentagram's Michael Bierut at The 99 Percent conference. Shows how a quiet, humble, and empathetic bedside manner can be such useful attributes in a...
View ArticleUX Case Study: Designing a user-focused web app
Insight into the complete design process for the redesign of Nearby Tweets. Web app developers and entrepreneurs will hopefully gain some ideas or reinforce their own processes. Users may find it...
View ArticleHow wireframing makes your website designs better
The value of wireframing comes down to a simple idea: Wireframing forces you to think about your user interface design decisions in terms of user needs first, instead of in terms of what looks...
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