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UI Design Lessons: Are You Driving Your Application Usability Off A Cliff?

Posted: Jul 4th, 2008 | 1 Comment
If I had a million dollars for every time a client asked me to add more features, or more appropriately stuff and jam more features into an already bulging application, I would have published a book, bought a mansion, and maybe a small island somewhere in the South Pacific....
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Features In The Front Usability Get To The Back

Posted: Feb 15th, 2008 | No Comments
Almost daily I face this this challenge. In fact it is infuriating about how many times in the day a usability concern is locked into the backseat. New features almost always seem to win versus making a new product better simply by improving the usability of an application. Think of it like Jenga....
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Did You Know Paper-Prototyping Adds Value If Done Right?

Posted: Feb 14th, 2008 | No Comments
First off let me state it’s been awhile since I have posted. This is mainly because projects have kept me busy. Lately, I’ve been trying to push the power of paper-prototyping. It’s a tough concept to get across though because some just don’t see the value. In fact, the...
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User Experience Design in an Agile Development Cycle

Posted: Mar 30th, 2007 | No Comments
The title pretty much says it all. After working for a while now in an agile development model. I’ve discovered several disturbing things that really cause a loss of sanity. The agile development cycle is quite fast. Depending on your team it has different lengths. Most iterations seem to be...
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Why Did My Design Fail Miserably and Other Not Nice Things?

Posted: Mar 28th, 2007 | No Comments
So as I was laying here sick in bed and thinking about design stuff. That’s the great thing or a curse about having a design based job. Even while you are sick you can’t always turn off your brain. So unless asleep or staring at the tv you are always thinking. ...
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The Haves, Have Nots & Feature Bloated User Experience.

Posted: Mar 24th, 2007 | No Comments
Imagine with me a minute that you have just identified in your Book Keeper 2.0 web application that too much information and functionality is jammed into the “add new book” page. The business analysts insist that everything needs to be available to the user. They “need” to...
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Corporate Conflicts A Cantakerous Cacophany of Confusion.

Posted: Mar 24th, 2007 | No Comments
One topic that constantly is under debate in the corporate design world is: “Who makes the final decision.” Does the designer, business analyst, information architect, developer etc? Personally, this has been a major area of contention. When it comes to design and the user interface...
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Are you a corporate thinker?

Posted: Mar 17th, 2007 | No Comments
Welcome To Corporate Thinkers. This web site is dedicated to the corporate designer & application developer. The inspiration for this web site was derived from my visit to SXSW. While there I spoke with many corporate designers and developers. I shared many ideas and gained many inspirations...
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What’s with corporatethinkers.com domain and name change? I have felt the site has outgrown its original purpose. That being said in order to support the purpose of providing excellent design ideas, sample ui’s, and web app projects I’ve changed the name. The new name will now be uidesignguide.com. The old domain will work and stay active... Mar 21st, 2008 | no responses
Why Did My Design Fail Miserably and Other Not Nice Things? So as I was laying here sick in bed and thinking about design stuff. That’s the great thing or a curse about having a design based job. Even while you are sick you can’t always turn off your brain. So unless asleep or staring at the tv you are always thinking. ... Mar 28th, 2007 | no responses
SXSW 2009 – Day 2 Last night was my little get together of UI Designers. It was smaller than I had hoped but there was still a lot of interesting conversation. This morning I was working in the hall when I stopped Robert Hoekman to say hi. I figure I should, since in about 1 hour I’m heading off to his panel... Mar 14th, 2009 | no responses

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