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UI Design Lessons: A UI Designer in an Agile World, Get Me Out of Hell! – Part 1
Posted: Oct 20th, 2009 | 2 Comments
When I travel to conferences and speak with people about their agile UX experiences I come across a lot of repeat questions. Most of these pleas for help are about time management, rapid design sketching, traditional usability approaches, group design mentality, lack of support for UI...
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UI Design Dissection: Google Reader What Makes an Application Great?
Posted: Apr 3rd, 2009 | No Comments
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...
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Agile UI Design: A Fundamental Miscalculation in UI Design Excellence?
Posted: Mar 25th, 2009 | 15 Comments
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...
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Design Experiences: Don’t Rub Your Product Experience All Over Me.
Posted: Feb 18th, 2009 | 1 Comment
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...
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Blog Response: IE 6 The Devil Not In Disguise
Posted: Feb 12th, 2009 | No Comments
The other day I came across an interesting article “Stop Developing for Internet Explorer 6” . My initial thought was great I finally can stop developing for IE 6. Of course, that was just a pipedream. On many of my applications I still have a large captive IE 6 audience....
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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 |
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When is it the Right Time to Use Icons? When is it appropriate to use icons in your application? This is a decision I always have to make when creating a complex application. There are several key factors that you can use to support your reasoning for utilizing icons. It’s important to know why to use icons over some other method....
Apr 2nd, 2008 |
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SXSW 2009 – Has Begun! Well I arrived here after drivine 4 hours through some really crappy weather. Then I could not find parking close to the convention center, and then the line. The line was about 3 times longer than last year.
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Mar 13th, 2009 |
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Twitter is a great way to share new and exciting resources with all our viewers. Each day I provide links and commentary on all things UI. You can find UI resources, UI design examples, new techniques, and a lot more by Following @UIDESIGNGUIDE on Twitter.
- Konigi -creator and one of my fav sites - moves to work on BALSAMIQ a great ui prototyping tool - http://bit.ly/cywlAK
- 10 must see UI / UX / interaction design videos via - johnny holland http://bit.ly/9cV4Wt
- Article on rich interactions - http://bit.ly/bZttrs
- Great article on the Mega DRop down type menu.... I see a lot more of these lately: http://bit.ly/bXZQMM
- Because it's always a good idea to have a x - compatible browser testing place - http://bit.ly/6bGQGc
- Excellent look at realism and deconstruction of iconic imagery as it pertains to UI DESIGN - http://bit.ly/6vbIC9)
- Great article for when clients say just jam that content togehter more: - Whitespace is your friend - http://bit.ly/8R1Qro
- A comical look at the frustrating world of PRINTERS- but very true: http://bit.ly/6MsdIi)
The idea for this design blog first came about two years ago at SXSW Interactive.
Currently UI Design guide is in its fourth redesign. This site takes quite a bit of time to maintain as well as write the content. Just like UI Design this site is a passion that keeps evolving.
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