Interface Design Is About Passion and Experience. Don’t Forget To Build With Compassion When Designing Your UI.
Recently, I received a copy of Flair Builder , a new wire-frame, mock and interactive prototyping tool. As many of my readers know, I am very much for utilizing paper prototyping for the first few iterations of a design.
So I am bringing back the UI design challenge and wanted to try this a bit different. I want this to be an interactive experience. If you listen to my audio blog posts: http://boo.fm/b29310. I talked about recent research I was conducting to locate a new house.
I’ve been extremely busy working on a new article series, as well as some more work on agile UI articles. Beyond that I have added a few things to the web site. The first was linking my TWITTER account directly to the blog. It provides me another way to quickly provide news, articles, etc without having to write an entire article. You can see this on the right the navigation of the site. I really try to twitter about things UI related.
The second change is I started doing 2-3 minute audio blogs to supplement articles as well as other topics on my mind. The first one was posted today The audio blogs will show up in the twitter feed to the right. You will also see them show up if you are following me.
Registration was off to a slow start this morning. After finally getting registered met up with some friends. I have some pictures, this post will be updated through out the day with things I find interesting, exciting, revolutionary, or all around RAD.
I read a lot of books and in this field it’s good to both refresh and improve your skills. The latest book I finished (just this morning) is Neuro Web Design: What Makes Them Click? by Susan M. Weinschenk.
This is just a little note to let you all know I’ll be attending the Big D Design Conference in Dallas on May 30th. It’s a one day event 9 – 6 p.m. that looks to have a good lineup of speakers. Admission is $50.00 and $10.00 to get into the “after party.”
Over at one of my favorite blogs Konigi, there was a new article posted regarding a brand new Flickr wireframe group.
The purpose of the Flickr group is to share wireframe photos of all types.
There are a lot of great ideas floating around in the group. If you are a UI designer and want to publicize some of your wireframes, methods, etc. I encourage you to do it. In the end it can inspire and teach you new techniques. After I finish working on a new wireframe project for an application I’m building I hope to get some pictures listed in the group.
There are some applications I never used or expected to use for more then a few days. And in any given week I try out about 10 – 15 new applications. I do this because I love analyzing and predicting new trends, design patterns, and visualizing work-flows. Usually, I end up with using 0 of these applications after a few months.
I’ve been banging my head against a wall trying to figure this question out for some time now. Can existing in an agile development cycle truly create the best ui design? I’ve worked in Agile development environments. I’ve worked with structured project management. I’ve worked in locations where I am the project leader.
The idea for this design blog first came about two years ago at 
at SXSW Interactive.
Inside, I cover articles on many topics icluding: lessons, prototyping methods, agile UX methods, design reviews, design challenges, application features, and of course design experiences, just to name a few.
With all the blogs out there you may be asking yourself who are you to give advice? That's a fair question. If you have a moment feel free to read about my design history.
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