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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 Challenge: Redesign A Filter Widget
Posted: Jun 10th, 2009 | 1 Comment
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.
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Agile UI Design Series: UI Design in an Agile Project Cycle Part 1
Posted: Feb 25th, 2009 | No Comments
Welcome to my three part series (so far), delving into real world UI experiences in relation to Agile Development Methodologies. In these three parts I will explore solutions, problems, and suggestions for dealing with the various phases of an agile development cycle. More importantly, this...
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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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The Most Important Questions to Ask When Building A Web Application UI. You didn’t think I was going to reveal it so quickly did you? Of course not, I like everyone to learn a little bit before they get the answer. There is nothing wrong with being forced to think a bit.
Let me back up a little and begin there. The other day I was driving home from work and...
Feb 10th, 2009 |
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Book Reviews: Neuro Web Design What Makes Them Click. 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.
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May 12th, 2009 |
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Features In The Front Usability Get To The Back 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....
Feb 15th, 2008 |
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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.
- 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)
- Very good read on the eternal debate of horizontal / vertical site navigation - http://bit.ly/7avxaO - As always examine both sides.
- Social News - Twitter and Linked In - partner: What does this really mean? -
- a nice breakdown of A/B testing - http://bit.ly/5JMEvR
- who wil be attending #SXSW interactive this year - I am going to schedule a UI Design meetup group later this month for when in Austin
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.
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.