Tag Archives: Design

IA Summit 2009: Effective Prototyping

Posted on April 10, 2009 by Brad

TweetIf there was a best of show award given at the IA Summit, Fred Beecher’s (twitter) track on prototyping would be one of the nominees. Jonathan Knoll (twitter) summed it up best by stating ‘@fred_beecher‘s prototyping session is turning into … Continue reading →

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IA Summit 2009: Personas and Politics

Posted on April 10, 2009 by Brad

TweetPersonas are one of my favorite tools in the user experience tackle box. They can be used to drive the design of a project from start to finish, and also answer many pesky design problems. Adrienne Massanari (blog) pointed out … Continue reading →

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IA Summit 2009: Experience Themes

Posted on April 10, 2009 by Brad

TweetCindy Chastain (twitter) started an amazing conversation with her presentation at this years IA Summit in Memphis. It is common practice for authors and playwrights to use themes when creating a new story. Cindy, through real world practice, has discovered … Continue reading →

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IA Summit 2009: Designing Rules

Posted on April 10, 2009 by Brad

TweetThis was one of my favorite sessions from this years IA Summit. Dan Brown (twitter) delivered a very thorough and practical guide on how to develop and use design rules for a project. The following are my tweets from the … Continue reading →

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IA Summit 2009: Creating Magic Kingdom

Posted on April 10, 2009 by Brad

TweetMike Atherson gave an extremely touching and inspiring presentation about the Imagineers of Disney, and the amount of love that goes into their work. It was enlightening to hear the story on how much detail went into generating the experience … Continue reading →

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Teaching People to Sketch

Posted on April 10, 2009 by Brad

TweetBusiness analysts in many organizations are being shouldered to do more than just requirements analysts and research. BA’s are being tasked to take the requirements they have documented and create a UI to support them. This puts them at a … Continue reading →

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Over User Customization

Posted on April 10, 2009 by Brad

TweetDuring a meeting today, a single sentence made by the meeting leader filled me with inspiration to write todays post. “Our goal is to offer our customers with a complex and customizable system that they can use any way they … Continue reading →

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Conversation with a Software Engineer

Posted on April 10, 2009 by Brad

TweetToday I had one of the most difficult conversations to date in my life. The conversation went something like this. Engineer: Why redesign the Microsoft print dialog when it has been successfully used by users for the past 10 years? … Continue reading →

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Supporting User Primary Goals

Posted on April 10, 2009 by Brad

TweetIt is natural to get caught up in all the what if’s that can happen in the real world. Being knee deep in use case and task analysis activities make it easy to forget that just because a user can … Continue reading →

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