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…
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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….
IDEO Method Cards widget
IDEO’s excellent Method Cards for human-centered design are available as a widget for Mac OS X users. (Saves you $50) Available as a download in the right column of the news page. Really easy to miss. Incidentally, Fast Company has an article on IDEO Method Cards Turn, Um, 7! Happy birthday Method Cards!
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…
UX for Good
Just launched a new blog UXforGood.org which tries to bring together my often intersecting interest in user experience (UX) and social change. In quite a visionary statement with far before the birth of the internet, Charles Eames said: Beyond the age of information is the age of choices. It is an understatement to say that…
Life Caching on Mobile Phones
At some point in the near future, the term mobile "phone" will be too limiting to describe what we’ll be carrying around in our pockets. Take the iPhone (or any smartphone) as an example. Currently there are 8GB and 16GB versions available, but at the rate memory is increasing and coming down in price, soon…
Adventures in the Seoul Metropolitan Subway
I take the Seoul Metropolitan Subway system to work everyday, compacted like sardines in a can. I was in no rush to get to work the other day and as I took my time through the system, I started to notice the signage around me. I found some interesting ones. (My personal favorite) In…
The Satisfying Touch UI Experience
It’s a little embarrassing, but I get a lot of my insights from watching TED presentations. Blame it on the combination of my 2 hour commute, iPod Nano and TED providing video podcasts. In a fascinating presentation by neurologist Vilayanur Ramachandran, he talks about how the brain works with sensory input. What stuck with me…
What Do You Want to Be, Touch UI?
Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about touch-based user interfaces for mobile phone for a project I’ve been involved in. Louis Kahn, one of the most influential architects of our time, and subject of an amazing documentary film, once said: “What do you want Brick?” He was alluding to the fact that each material has…
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…