Posted in books, interaction design, user experience on March 28th, 2011 Comments? »
I just finished reading Giles Colborne’s “Simple and Usable” – a delightfully compact, practical and highly readable book about interaction design. I’m glad the book isn’t one of those books that tries to solve everything about interaction design. Instead, it’s a book from a designer telling stories about his experiences solving design problems to someone [...]
Posted in events, interaction design, user experience on February 13th, 2011 Comments? »
I had a free day to myself today, so I thought I’d laze around the internet looking for interesting stuff and ended up spending the whole day immersing myself with the insane amount of stuff that’s been posted on the interwebs about Interaction 11 in Boulder, Colorado. After 5 pages of sketchnotes, I’m still not [...]
Posted in interaction design, technology, tools, user experience, web on October 12th, 2009 Comments? »
Everyone’s hyped up about getting a Google Wave invite. I have one and I don’t see what the fuss is about. Yes, I’ve seen the YouTube video, and yes I’ve watched the Developer Preview video too. It looks great and all, but seriously folks – it’s one complicated thing… next to email. And this is [...]
Posted in interaction design, tools, user experience on October 4th, 2009 Comments? »
I’m currently in a team of 3 people working on a redesign of a website. To me, this feels like my first “real” design project, one where I’ve initiated without any requirements for software implementation. Instead, we began to ask ourselves who are our users, and what exactly are we trying to communicate to them?
User-Centred [...]
Posted in interaction design, user experience, web on September 21st, 2009 Comments? »
I love this idea: http://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/good/webapps-with-json.html
Posted in interaction design, tools, user experience on September 21st, 2009 Comments? »
I’m at the start of a new phase of our development, and we’re at the point where we need to generate ideas for our interfaces. I’ve observed that wireframes aren’t always well-received by people who don’t understand them – clients who think they need more color, developers who want to code over it, etc. If [...]
Posted in interaction design, user experience on June 17th, 2009 Comments Off
Because I have been doing a lot of PHP plumbing lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about implementing a web interaction framework that would make my life easier as a web developer cum interaction designer. One of things that got me thinking is the amount of complexity that’s involved in provide the right kind of [...]