User Experience & Design
15 Sep 2010
Colleen Gray contributed to this post.
Turning bureacracy on its head with storytelling strategy
As many of you know, I'm a huge proponent of online storytelling. I frequently blog about it, facilitate trainings around it, and regularly promote its benefits to the groups we work with. We all...
19 Aug 2010
Oh, technical requirements documentation. So fun to read and so fun to write! All kidding aside, it seems to be a necessary evil. Otherwise, how do you know what to build?
Well, what if I told you that there is an alternate option? Interested? Good, then let’s talk about User Stories!
What...
3 Aug 2010
On a recent project, the internal project team found success in documenting functional specifications in a Google Document, as show below:
The benefits of this process included:
Detailed functional specifications that 1) can be implemented, 2) provide a positive user experience, and 3) will...
10 May 2010
Joshua Porter's Designing for the Social Web
I attended the Information Architecture Summit in Phoenix, Arizona, back in April 2010. The IA Summit is the premier gathering place for information architects and other UX professionals. This was the 11th IA Summit, and it included Dan Roam...
31 Oct 2008
I attended the latest IxDA DC event and listened to Todd Zaki Warfel present his InterVu research framework.
Todd's talk was mostly about the difficulty that user experience professionals face when capturing and analyzing data. He explained that often the greatest challenge is that analyzing data...
11 Jan 2008
As information architects, we sometimes take wireframes for granted. We work with them every day. We live and breathe boxes and lorem ipsum placeholder text. What we don't often realize is that many people that we work with don't really grasp the concept of wireframing as it relates to web design....
27 Apr 2007
My last two posts have centered around prototyping methods. Since I talked a bit about techniques, I thought it would be helpful to show an example in practice that we have used for a project I'm currently working on.
A client requested a redesign and reorganization of their existing site. We went...
28 Mar 2007
Wireframes have been an indispensable tool for information architects to present and communicate the web page layouts and content placement to clients and developers. In revisiting our wireframes templates, I wanted to tackle a couple of issues that have been brought up across the years since I...
13 Feb 2007
A reader of my last post, Prototyping for the Masses, brought to my attention an online tool used to create simulations of web applications called Simunication. I thought it would be good to add these kinds of tools to my list of prototyping resources. Upon further Google supported research, I...
31 Jan 2007
In a previous post, I talked about the notion of "looking before you leap" as it relates to designing a website. Part of this "looking," or exploration stage, can be enhanced by prototyping.
Prototyping can take shape in a number of ways, depending on a number of things related...
