In a follow-up to 10 tools for creating wireframes and prototypes I did a quick comparison of some of the features I think are valuable in a wireframe/prototyping tool. Here a brief summary of the categories: Master Templates: As any information architect knows, the home page is different. However most of the subpages have navigation…
Category: web design
Tools for creating wireframes and prototypes (Part 1)
I am so glad to see there are so many more applications dedicated to creating wireframes and prototypes. A far better scene from a couple of years ago when there was only Omnigraffle and Visio. Here’s round up of information architecture (IA) and user interface (UI) tools for wireframing and prototyping: Desktop wireframing tools 1….
The Geography of UX: Why web user experience in Korea is not about the searchbox
Korean internet culture is unique. Or the internet culture of Northern America is not universal.1 User Experience: my definition If you do an Amazon search for User Experience (UX) you get mostly web design related books. The web has grown so dramatically in the past decade that it is sometimes hard to imagine a time…
Encounter with an Unexpected Friend
On a recent trip to Vietnam, I came across a printed copy of the Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries (2nd Ed.) first published by the World Bank in 2006. This is quite a significant book in that it provides governments of developing nations a set of tools to help them decide how to allocate…
The Point: Making Things Happen
The Point is a simple website with a clear purpose: making things happen. The way they do it is helping users formulate a campaign statement for action with a clear goal. Users can then choose to participate in the campaign. When the goal is met (or “the point” is tipped), an email is sent to…
Ask Your Lawmaker, Web2.0 Style
As the elections in US heats up, I checked back on one of my last projects at Forum One, Ask Your Lawmaker (I was the lead information architect). It went live last November and it’s good to see it is finally gathering some steam. Ask Your Lawmaker is a site created by Capitol News Connection…
America’s Favorite Architecture
The American Institute of Architects (aka the AIA), celebrating its 150th Anniversary, put together a website of America’s favorite architecture. The list was compiled by polling its members. The result is a collection of 150 buildings, bridges, monuments and memorials which users can vote on. What’s nice is that they have added models to Google…
Looking for “Using Wireframes” Article?
I recently noticed traffic on this site looking for my Using Wireframes article (my most popular post to date) posted on my old, now-retired blog, strangesystems.net. The article provides an overview of what wireframes are (from a web design, information architecture point of view), some guidelines on how to create them and some Visio and…
CARMA: Visualizing Carbon Emission Data
CARMA (Carbon Monitoring for Action) is a project by the Center for Global Development that I was peripherally involved in at my old firm, Forum One Communications. It recently came online and tracks the CO2 output of carbon emitting sources around the world. (Carbon dioxide being one of the causes global warming) It attempts to…
Better Personas: Data Driven Design Research
Todd Warfel has an inspiring presentation on persona creation. Go to the presentation on slideshare and view it full screen. In case you are wondering what those geen and blue lines are on his personas, here’s the answer. Another of Todd’s persentations I enjoyed was, Goal Oriented Data Driven Design which incorporates parts of Barry…