Category Archives: User Experience Design

Brand & Customer Experience – by Brandon Schauer

Here is another great video. Brandon Schauer from Adaptive Path and Josh Levine of Great Monday posit two company models of Brand and Customer Experience. This is a must see for those working corporate customer experience. Watch original video here… http://vimeo.com/7493030 Untangling brand and customer experience, in 10 minutes or less from Brandon Schauer on [...]

Sketch board a better design approach

I recently attended a sketch boarding workshop with Leah Buley from Adaptive Path. Sketch boarding is a collaborative design technique developed to capture concepts, iterate through lo-fidelity comps and work toward more detailed interfaces. A sketch-boarding sprint could be as short as 5 days which works well with agile development teams. Sketchboarding combines…

Great Presentation – The Machine is (Changing) Us: YouTube and the Politics of Authenticity

Great Presentation from Kansas State University’s Dr. Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology. Presented at the 2009 Personal Democracy Forum at Jazz at Lincoln Center, Dr. Wesch explains the effects of social media and digital technology on global society and culture. Understanding the impact of social media in our culture and the subsequent rise [...]

Wired Magazine: Craigslist Makeover

Wired recently asked leading designers to give Craigslist a user-interface lift. Again – why? Wow, what a problem to have. 7 billion page views per month but your site is aesthetically bland; subjectively “busy”; perceived, by some, as hard to use. What about the page views? They account for something. I suspect people are getting things [...]

When Should Companies Focus on the eReader Experience?

We’re on the verge of an eReader explosion. Companies not currently developing their eReader experience will be out of luck by 2012.

Companies like Amazon continue development of the kindle while consumers devour content on alternate devices. In 2008 Lexcycle’s iPhone Stanza was downloaded 1 million times establishing more iPhone eBook readers than Kindle users overnight.

UX and Agile

Have you seen all the discussion topics in the Agile UX group? From concept to coding: the art of writing Agile requirements Adapting usability investigations for Agile user-centered design Pretending to be able to predict the future with certainty 12 emerging best practices for adding UX work to Agile development Getting real about Agile design [...]