Agile UX and the Decentralization of the UX Department
How to move towards a more agile mindset.
Interaction design
Sketchboarding
Unfortunately I didn’t get to make a trip to CanUX this week, but I’ve been trying to catch up with the material online right away after the workshop. Brandon Schauer actually put his material up already before the end of the conf, and it seems like he held a great workshop on sketchboarding. Check out [...]
Revolutionize the process of web design?
Prototypes are a great way to explore design solutions with the developer team and the client, and to even test them with the end user at an early point of the work process. Unlike static wireframes, they let people try out the navigation and test interactions, fill in forms and follow external links. Some UXDs [...]
Social interaction design
Quite a brilliant, benchmark article by Adrian Chan in Johnny Holland Magazine today! Writing about social interaction design, Adrian states that “If the task of conventional software is to provide successful interactions, to inform the user that his actions worked, then what of social media? … Social interaction design works by respecting the psychological and [...]
We’re still learning, pt 4
I took a little break from giving presentations to people at the office about information architecture and the IA’s role, but this coming week I’m starting again. I’ve created a modified, new version of my presentation – this time trying a bit more visual, yet simple ways of showing what the basic process and its [...]
Defining the role of a marketing IA
In the last couple of days there’s been a big debate on the IAI mailing list about the definition of ‘information architecture’ (again), and partly that prompted me to think of the definition of my own role (again), working as an “information architect” (that is, officially, my title) at an advertising agency. Information architecture (IA) [...]
We’re still learning, pt 3
Half inspired by Google’s Chrome comics, half by T. Scott Stromberg’s sketch notes from Adaptive Path’s UX Week, I attached a comic-like drawing to this article. The drawing includes some of the sentences I hear often at the office from the mouths of different members of the team, including my own. Previously, in my first [...]