UI Design Can Be As Simple As Sketching Your Wireframe On A Piece Of Paper. Don’t Over Complicate Your Process With Unnecessary Tools. Let The Tools Work For You Not Against You.

UI Design Challenge: Redesign A Filter Widget

UI Design Challenge: Redesign A Filter Widget

By uidesigner on June 10th, 2009

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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Book Reviews: Neuro Web Design What Makes Them Click.

Book Reviews: Neuro Web Design What Makes Them Click.

By uidesigner on May 12th, 2009

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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The Most Important Questions to Ask When Building A Web Application UI.

By uidesigner on February 10th, 2009

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 recently started  on a new UI project. I was going through my normal routines  when presented with a  project. I start to ruminate over all the things I can do and how all the various functions of this new application would tie together. As I pondered this in between paying attention to traffic and driving, one core question popped into my head. A light bulb snapped and thus this article was born. I realized just how many designers, and developers, forget to ask one magic question.

Maybe they are strapped for time, burned out, or whatever the reason might be. You need to ask yourself this question!

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How Can I Speed up Proto-typing & Visual Design Mocks with Hybrid Design Proto-typing?

By uidesigner on May 11th, 2008

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.

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