Helpful insights on some common traps UX designers’ fall into, from Silicon Valley insider Marty Cagan. Thanks to @A_Silvers for posting on Twitter. A sampling: … don’t try to show taxonomies, concept maps, site maps, task analysis grids, design process maps and even wireframes to execs. These tools are all useful for designers, but not [...]
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An Open Letter to the Design Community
Posted in design strategy, information architecture, interaction design, user experience design on May 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
IDEA 10: Johnny Holland summaries
Posted in experience integration, IDEA 10, information architecture, interaction design, user experience design on October 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Johnny Holland published some decent summaries of the Day 1 and Day 2 sessions at last week’s IDEA 10 conference in Philadelphia. I will be posting my notes from the conference here soon, but in the meantime these summaries provide some sense of the conference’s central themes.
Screenshots from Designing Web Interfaces
Posted in design, interaction design, user experience design, web design, tagged design patterns, interaction design, interaction patterns, rich interactions on March 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Bill Scott, author of Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions, recently posted a ton of videos illustrating the design patterns from his book on Flickr. To get a complete sense of the value of employing design patterns for web sites (or anything else you might design), I recommend reading Scott’s book alongside The Design [...]
