Agile Design Can Be Enjoyable. You Just Have to Be A Time Traveler and Respond Quick to Design Change.
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.
The other day I was pumping some gas at the gas station only to be accosted by the latest in drive by guerilla marketing. Nowadays, it is quite common to find little kiosks setup outside of major business selling everything from makeup to car polisher. It’s as if the strip mall has come to us. It’s like carnies are part of everyday life now. And this is where my story begins – (cue flashback).
Over the course of time I’ve developed my own hybrid proto-typing approach for graphical mocks. There are several benefits I have discovered by streamlining this hybrid process.
Welcome to my first in a series of design processes instructions and examples. These are setup in such a way as to walk you through development cycles in relation to creating, producing, usability testing, and execution from a UI Design stand point.
I’ve been wanting to get back to the core of this blog for some time. I think I finally have made some time to do this. For anyone that has missed out the original core of this blog is to examine the brainstorming, creation, and execution of an application. This can easily be a process that any company or individual can follow when creating a web application. Size of the application has no bearing on whether these principles can be applied.
What makes a good design? Is it the process of creating the design, the aesthetic, or the usability? Does increasing a complex process for design force it to be good, or hinder a web application’s creative possibilities?
Let’s say you are a contractor building a new home for an unknown family. Looking at your deadline you realize you aren’t going to make it on time. It’s time to do something to solve the problems. What can be cut first?
Perhaps you get cheaper wiring, maybe the concrete on your house didn’t dry before the rest of the foundation had set. Because you are behind schedule you feel the only way for you to “catch up” is to cut corners. Cut one corner and you have opened up Pandora’s Box. It’s so easy to cut more and more. You begin a process of jamming things in just to meet the deadline. One year later the house catches fire and you are sued because you cut those corners.
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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