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  • OOW

    by Patrick Stapleton on 05/15/2008 [0 comments] · 1 request

    On the odd occaision when someone asks me give advice on their application or website I seem to be spending an increasing percentage of my time describing the benefits of integration with pre-existing web services. I’m talking about the Google suite of tools, things like Formsite and Youtub... more...

  • Enabling Work Practice

    by chuck kukla on 05/14/2008 [0 comments] · 1 request

    The Distributed Work research group at MIT just recently published its report“Enabling Work Practice”. The essence of this report suggests that knowledge-based approaches to improving work are useful only if the ability of a firm to use this knowledge is also addressed. Knowledge begets capabi... more...

  • The Wireframe Audience

    by Chris Poteet on 05/07/2008 [0 comments] · 6 requests

    We hear so much on whether a wireframe should be interactive with HTML/CSS/etc, or be static as in a Visio diagram. I’d like to write an article outlining the true audience of a wireframe. The thesis is that wireframes are most helpful for the other developers and less for the customer. ... more...

  • Comment on Extreme User Research (suggested by Andres Zapata)

    by Andres Zapata on 05/03/2008 [0 comments] · 1 request

    Interesting article, than you! We’ve had great success with similar techniques, it’s great to see that procedural patterns are beginning to develop around these activities. It becomes easier to convince clients that stuff like this is a good idea when more and more IAs are following a similar pat... more...

  • How We Got Here: The Growth of IA within a major .com

    by Margot Sayers on 04/28/2008 [1 comment] · 8 requests

    Dana Thomas is the Director of UX for Travelocity and has seen the IA team grow from 0 to 10 in her 11 years with the company. Fayyaz Shah is a former IA and current VP of Global Convergence Management for Travelocity. I would like to interview the two of them panel style to see what kind of insi... more...

  • Designing the Forward-Thinking CRM Application: Lessons Learned from Competitive and Market Analysis

    by Mickey Moran on 04/28/2008 [0 comments] · -1 requests

    The basis of any effective User Experience strategy begins, not just with a deep understanding of the brand and the product, but of competitor landscape and relevant market trends as well. This conversation is related to the results obtained in competitive and market analysis generated for a clie... more...

  • How to Evaluate Search Relevancy and Precision

    by John Ferrara on 04/26/2008 [4 comments] · 8 requests

    Website search is often the most highly trafficked section of a website, and the one where the information architect bears the least influence. There aren’t enough tools in our hands for us to even appraise the general quality of the search experience, much less strategize ways to improve it. A... more...

  • Designer's Bias

    by Apara Ranjan on 04/22/2008 [0 comments] · 0 requests

    Well I am interseted to know about designers Bias which comes into picture while designing. We focus lot on users..which is good!! Despite of all ..designer is the person who designs based on data….but still interpretation of data ….thought he puts in for design ….can all be bia... more...

  • Desgining for Fragmented Experiences

    by Aynne Valencia on 04/22/2008 [0 comments] · 1 request

    Our agency has been working on multiple projects/campaigns that span over multiple websites (both 3rd party and sites we create), multiple mobile sites, print and sometimes real-world interactive experiences. My colleague, Guillermo Torres and I are in the process of putting together a series of... more...

  • Comozo | Art Contest

    by Fred Petit on 04/22/2008 [0 comments] · 0 requests

    Hello, I’m starting an art gallery online company that will print Giclées of graphic designs and illustrations. I am still looking for talented artists and original artwork. So I created a blog that is an art contest dedicated to graphic designers and illustrators. Would it be possibl... more...

  • WantMaps - A simple tool for expressing diversity

    by Andrew Boyd on 04/17/2008 [0 comments] · 2 requests

    Most projects have competing needs from different stakeholders – corporate management wants a product that makes them look good, project management wants it delivered on time and under budget, and the end users just want the darn thing to work. WantMaps are a simple tool for expressing di... more...

  • Interaction Design in an Agile Environment

    by loredana crisan on 04/17/2008 [2 comments] · 9 requests

    Here’s my experience of the agile development cycle: 1) Product requirements are one thing today, another tomorrow, based mainly on investor feedback 2) Weekly iteration cycles give you 4-5 days to research, prototype and document your design3) Little time is left for contextual inquiries... more...

  • Error Message Best Practices

    by Trevor Bollers on 04/16/2008 [0 comments] · 0 requests

    This may have already been done but it is what I am looking for and I think there needs to be more discuss about this topic. In working on projects that are form intensive I have found the need to have very clear and consice error messages that accomplish these goals. 1) help my user identify... more...

  • Exprience Strategy

    by Jon Montenegro on 04/16/2008 [0 comments] · 2 requests

    I would like to read more about Experience Strategy, methodologies and how others sell Experience Strategy as the driving force for any client engagement. more...

  • What Makes People Tick

    by Alexander Muir on 04/11/2008 [0 comments] · 1 request

    Designing a compelling UX requires you understand what makes your audience tick. But what does it ‘making them tick’ mean?This story would describe 2 great models for this: Chip Conley’s Pyramid – based Maslows hierarchy, and also Dr Clotaire Rapaille’s Culture Code... more...

  • The Devil is in the Transitions

    by Joshua Platt on 04/11/2008 [1 comment] · 2 requests

    If you believe what Bill Buxton has been advocating, and for the record I do, we all need to be using state diagrams in conjunction with our static rapid prototypes and storyboards. He states the most important parts of any design, whether software or hardware, are the transitions. What happens w... more...

  • Creative Spaces -- Blue Lotus Gallery

    by Douglas White on 04/11/2008 [0 comments] · 0 requests

    Blue Lotus Gallery is a contemporary art gallery supporting Hong Kong and international talents. The gallery’s is located in the middle of Fotan Art village, Hong Kong’s largest and most vibrant art community. Their goal is to bring the collector closer to the artist instead of the ot... more...

  • Ocean Park Animal Month – In High Definition

    by Douglas White on 04/10/2008 [0 comments] · 0 requests

    Ocean Park took www.SO-U.TV on a guided tour of their amazing new exhibit “Animal Month in High Definition”. Hong Kong’s first-ever stingray encounter, and Southeast Asia’s largest collection of exotic frogs, debut of world-record holding sand sculptors and their larger-than-lif... more...

  • Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and Viral Marketing

    by Russ Unger on 04/09/2008 [1 comment] · 4 requests

    The notion is that you can “test” your Viral Marketing concepts against Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs—or at least the first 4; only 2% of the population are self-actualizers. The article will cite examples of Viral Marketing and how it maps to the Hierarchy of Needs, hopef... more...

  • Comment on Extreme User Research (suggested by Muhammad Faizan Ali)

    by Muhammad Faizan Ali on 04/05/2008 [0 comments] · 0 requests

    great reading Daniel i wanna share my strategy , use when, i get project. one thing about clients is true they don't have any idea about target (potential) customers. i usually , brainstrom , with my client to agree him on his/her target audiance. and after this , we enjoy speed dating with 1 t... more...

  • User Experience Leadership and Management

    by Masood Nasser on 04/03/2008 [0 comments] · 1 request

    In the Web business, going forward, User Experience Leadership & Management has to be completely aligned if not merged. Have seen innumerable projects fail due to silos created by “us” and “them”. It canot be “our way” or “their way. Until then , we w... more...

  • Boxes and Arrows; Highlights

    by Lon Barfield on 03/27/2008 [0 comments] · 0 requests

    Hello there, As well as working at Hewlett Packard Labs on user-centric design I assist with the (niche) publishing company Bosko Books. We have a few titles available on Amazon now and I was wondering if you want to discuss the idea of publishing some of the stories on B+A in book form, no ide... more...

  • Software Design is Storytelling

    by Joshua Platt on 03/25/2008 [0 comments] · 5 requests

    The Art of Story boarding If you were born in the last 40 years you have done at least one of the following: • Watched a movie• Played a video game• Read a book Each started out as an idea on a piece of paper, evolved into a storyboard, and was then fleshed out by very creative people. The... more...

  • Task Architecture

    by chuck kukla on 03/21/2008 [1 comment] · 3 requests

    Task ArchitectureEnvisioning the Structure of Work Computers and their associated applications and interfaces are ubiquitous in the workplace. Each interface provides or asks for information and more importantly, interacting with an interface consumes time. The work environment is constrained... more...

  • Naked Personas: a way to plan for repeated use of personas in an organization

    by todd moy on 03/14/2008 [3 comments] · 7 requests

    Recently, we were faced with a problem. How do we build build personas for an organization that could stand the test of time? Since the customers, generally, are unchanging it seemed silly for the company to recreate personas for each separate initiative. So, we developed what we call “nake... more...

  • Wikis: Collaboration beyond Complex Processes

    by Paulo Floriano on 03/08/2008 [5 comments] · 6 requests

    In this article I want to talk about the use of wikis insted of complex workflows to produce and collaborate around content. In my experience wikis can be used to support content production when do you have a very complex process, with various approve levels and workflow rules. People seem to... more...

  • Content Management Systems: 7 Critical Features

    by Paulo Floriano on 03/08/2008 [2 comments] · 9 requests

    This article talks about the main features that a CMS need to have, considering the potencial growth of non-structured information, mostly at large organizations. This features are:- Integrated management on diverse plattforms- life cycle management- automatic classification- high flexibility o... more...

  • Interaction Design for Software Engineering

    by Claude Knaus on 02/29/2008 [1 comment] · 7 requests

    Hi, I would like to submit an article. Here is the abstract of my article: Despite the abundance of software development tools, development and maintenance of software remains uneconomical. Today’s software development tools are a result of technology-driven erratic evolution. There is ... more...

  • Designing Your Time

    by John Reeve on 02/29/2008 [0 comments] · 4 requests

    Every design and development company has experienced a project that has gone awry due to bad time and project management. But how can you avoid making similar mistakes in the future? This article will discuss best practices in the area of time and project management and provide advice specific... more...

  • Question

    by Donna McGarrell on 02/26/2008 [0 comments] · 2 requests

    Question: Why is this Sept. 21 story not available— Getting A Form’s Structure Rightby Afshan Kirmani <http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/getting-a-forms> more...

  • The Two Users

    by Mandy Cornwell on 02/21/2008 [0 comments] · 0 requests

    HELP – I didn’t mean to post this here, I thought it would go only to the editors. Please remove! I posted this idea in the Ideas section – http://www.boxesandarrows.com/idea/view/14050 and got a few requests. I am interested in writing an article about what each of the ‘us... more...

  • Axure Article

    by Dana Martinelli on 02/18/2008 [2 comments] · 5 requests

    I would like to write an article on the benefits of using the tool: Axure. I have 2 years experience with this tool and was responsible in getting it adopted as a core solution for Thermo Fisher Scientific and Hollywood.com. I can provide a sample of my writing if you like. Ezra Schwartz reques... more...

  • Broken Link

    by Claude Knaus on 02/17/2008 [0 comments] · 1 request

    Hi, On page http://www.boxesandarrows.com/about, the link tohttp://www.boxesandarrows.com/about/house_styleguide is broken. —Claude more...

  • Campaign Architecture: How to Use IA to Create Killer Search Marketing Campaigns

    by Ben Zipkin on 02/12/2008 [0 comments] · 1 request

    Greetings- I’ve been working on an article about how information architecture and taxonomy can be used to more effectively plan paid search campaigns. IA and UX strategy are becoming increasingly important in the search marketing fields, and this article will demonstrate how to these method... more...

  • Font ida for Valentine's day

    by amanda paull on 02/08/2008 [0 comments] · 0 requests

    Thought your readers might have some fun with this on Valentine’s day: its a font dating game thingy. Hard to explain, but a fun diversion for font fanatics… Enjoy!Amanda more...

  • Herds and Flocks - Better personalistion through group behaviour

    by Ross Howard on 02/07/2008 [0 comments] · 6 requests

    A recent intranet project for a large government organisation had to address an issue of surfacing relavant content (from thousands of documents, discussions, notices, tools and messages) to an extremely large and diverse user group that we wouldn’t be able to easily lump into fixed categor... more...

  • dynamic advertisement

    by kojo shoubagy on 01/30/2008 [0 comments] · 2 requests

    I wanted to post a comment on ITV and interactive advertising, I was watching a web cast from CNET TV and before every piece of news they jam in a commercial and one has to watch the commercial and can not skip it. Users sent many emails requesting that these commercials should be removed, especi... more...

  • User Interface Implementations of Faceted Browsing

    by Mike Padilla on 01/30/2008 [4 comments] · 7 requests

    Back in 2002, Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville predicted that “single-taxonomy solutions will give way to more flexible, faceted approaches” in their book Information Architecture for the World Wide Web. Fast forward to 2008 and their prediction has come true. Most major e-commerce ... more...

  • Using Axure for Heuristic Evaluation and Reporting

    by Ezra Schwartz on 01/26/2008 [6 comments] · 5 requests

    Performing heuristic evaluation can be tedious and time consuming. I found that Axure can be easily set to help reduce the time spend on documentation, and dramatically reduce the time to generate the report. Finally, a clickable html simulation helps communicate key findings (especially) to busi... more...

  • Finding the true Technical Communicator in You

    by Manoj Potdar on 01/24/2008 [0 comments] · 3 requests

    Technical Communicators come from diverse academic fields. Each one them has unique quality or combination of them. It is very important for each Technical Communicator to identity his/her unique combination of qualities and skill set to help grow as a person and as a professional. My thoughts ... more...

  • Comment on Advancing Advanced Search (suggested by Chris Rodriguez)

    by Chris Rodriguez on 01/23/2008 [0 comments] · 0 requests

    Which begs the question: are SEO enhancements screwing up internet searching. I don’t think it matters what kind of search people perform anymore, be it basic or advanced, because this SEO craze has developers throwing keywords into the website like Emiril throws in his special seasoning. O... more...

  • Comment on Managing the Complexity of Content Management (suggested by Chris Baum)

    by Mark DiSciullo on 01/17/2008 [0 comments] · 0 requests

    Interesting comment from Mark DiSciullo. Does anyone, Mark included, want to take on formulating this as a story? -cb I’m quite surprised at the lack of information out on the web to inform a decision NOT to use CMS. What if all of the sites my organization manages are are all required ... more...

  • Translation of your article to Czech language

    by Vilém Málek on 01/13/2008 [1 comment] · 0 requests

    Dear Friends, My name is Vilém Málek, and I am the editor-in-chief of an online magazine for web professionals, Interval.cz. Each day, we publish new articles on web design, web development, and e-commerce, provided to every visitor for free (for details, see http://interval.cz/redakce/o-magazi... more...

  • Comment on Automating Diagrams with Visio (suggested by S Becker)

    by S Becker on 01/11/2008 [0 comments] · 1 request

    Hi there. I’ve read through the whole page, and I’ve come to the decision that using the Org Chart Wizard is the fastest/easiest option for what I need to do. So far I’ve learned that you can insert an Excel spreadsheet into a Visio doc as a table, and link it so that every t... more...

  • Designing for Hand Held Devices

    by afshan kirmani on 01/07/2008 [2 comments] · 8 requests

    Let’s say that you’ve created a user interface design on the computer screen and soon after connecting it to the hand held device to see it, you realize that there several problems that you didn’t see coming. Yea, we’ve been there! But with this article that I propose, we can move away from the b... more...

  • The Relevance of User Experience

    by Daimon Caulk on 01/04/2008 [0 comments] · 2 requests

    The Relevance of User Experience by Daimon Caulk User Experience (UX) matters because very few organizations work together in groups to build applications and systems for users. There is a gap in the development of systems, sites, and interfaces. The role of a UX professional is to bridge tha... more...

  • Comment on Interactions 08 in the Garden of Good and Evil (suggested by Ben Hirby)

    by Richard Dalton on 01/04/2008 [0 comments] · 0 requests

    The AK47 metaphor is actually Andrew Hinton’s … see his Communities of Practice presentation. more...

  • Brand beliefs as User Experience guideposts

    by Michael Beavers on 01/02/2008 [0 comments] · 4 requests

    My article is a short exploration of how corporate Websites are more than an expression of a company’s brand…they are also a marketing “products” that supports and enhances users’ beliefs about the brand. The article includes an exercise that our team developed at Organic in Sa... more...

  • Resolving Differences of Opinion in Product Design

    by Teresa Torres on 12/26/2007 [1 comment] · 7 requests

    Product design is a contentious topic. Everyone from the CEO to the receptionist has an opinion about what the product should do and how it should look. It’s great when everyone in your company is engaged with what you are building but it becomes a challenge when it comes to resolving thes... more...

  • What can usability learn from services marketing?

    by Eli Goldberg on 12/20/2007 [0 comments] · 4 requests

    Back in the 1980s and 1990s, a software product could rocket to success solely by providing a needed set of features. The emotional experience of using the product was secondary, if not tertiary among its creators. As the much talked-about success of Apple’s iPod suggests, the software world has ... more...

  • The Two Users

    by Mandy Cornwell on 12/13/2007 [2 comments] · 3 requests

    Anyone interested in a deliverables related article that focuses on what information graphic designers, developers, and QA folks need from our documentation?As much as we pride ourselves on thinking of the end user, if the people building the site aren’t getting what they need out of our do... more...

  • Volunteer opportunities in Nepal

    by Bikram Paudel on 12/03/2007 [0 comments] · 0 requests

    VCD Nepal is a non profitable volunteer organization stablish by Nepalese youth volunteers, Works in education, environment, health and sanitation in different rural areas of Nepal. We enable volunteers to forge links with schoolchildren, youth groups and communities. We believe that this cultura... more...

  • When Usability Doesn't Matter

    by Robert Skrobe on 11/29/2007 [3 comments] · 1 request

    For all its advantages, usability has a lot to offer. It benefits the practitioner, the business owner, the project team and the end user in many ways. With the right circumstances at hand, usability and user-centered design can illuminate potential problem-solving possibilities and bring long... more...

  • When Good Designers Create Bad Designs

    by Maureen Kelly on 11/28/2007 [2 comments] · 4 requests

    Creating a well-designed product always seems to be so much harder than just having good design skills. I’d love to see an article that explored: * What types of companies succeed at creating well-designed products, and what sets them apart from the companies that don’t. * The skills ... more...

  • Exchange as a Benchmark for Usability

    by Russell Warner on 11/27/2007 [0 comments] · 0 requests

    I’d like to write an article discussing how usability experts and designers should take into consideration the value of the information that a user is attempting to retrieve. In many ways, interactive design can be seen as an interview. If you were conducting a face-to-face interview with... more...

  • Desire to use

    by Sudeep Dasgupta on 11/23/2007 [0 comments] · 0 requests

    “Focus on the user and all else will follow” – Our philosophy – Google. The Google founders have proved it to the world that by focusing only on something that is useful to people can make a big difference. To find ideas that might be useful – It is easier to go for... more...

  • Feedback of Actual End- User of Software on User Documentation

    by Manoj Potdar on 11/23/2007 [4 comments] · 4 requests

    From over the six years of experience in Technical Communiation, I would like to share the challenges in getting feedback on user documentation from the actual end-user of the product/ software. I would also like to share my thoughts on the ways I think may work to propel getting feedback and mak... more...

  • User Testing - OK, CANCEL

    by Prasad Perera on 11/19/2007 [5 comments] · 1 request

    Hi All, Has anyone done extensive user testing for placement of OK, CANCEL buttons? Should OK be on left and CANCEL on right? I have seen many theories to how it should be but didn’t come across any results of an actual user testing on this subject. If anyone has information about this, please ... more...

  • Cultural Differences

    by Alexander Wilms on 11/18/2007 [2 comments] · 6 requests

    I wonder if anyone has experience in working for an international client or cooperation. Cultural differences are an important factor when dealing with multinational project teams, and also have to be taken in account when designing applications. more...

  • Social Networking: Witnessing It

    by afshan kirmani on 11/17/2007 [0 comments] · 7 requests

    Most of us here love writing about user experience design and the elements that go into it. I have decided to provide all of us with something different this time. I would love to personally interview people from all around the world and quote what exactly they experience while using websites lik... more...

  • The Content Matrix deliverable: a tool for prioritizing content and functionality

    by Jason Ford on 11/09/2007 [4 comments] · 10 requests

    There is a chasm that must be crossed in every web project where all requirements and big ideas are somehow synthesized into a final feature set for the project. Difficulties getting alignment among stakeholders on what is and is not in scope for the project, phase 1, etc. can paralyze a web proj... more...

  • Human Factors of nonobjects

    by Rob Tannen on 11/06/2007 [2 comments] · 4 requests

    There’s a lot of buzz about Branko Lucic’s forthcoming design fiction book on “nonobjects”. It’s a conceptual excercise on a new way to design products. I’ve taken it to the next level by looking at the usability of those conceptual objects, both as a thought... more...

  • What it takes to be a Designer

    by Benjamin Ho on 11/02/2007 [1 comment] · 1 request

    I’ve been studying professional development for over five years now, and I would like to tie this in more with the User Experience Designer or any of the other designer titles. I’ve already written a couple of articles in my blog, but I would like to write some unique articles just f... more...

  • how to use functional requirements

    by robert coyle on 10/28/2007 [2 comments] · 10 requests

    Hi there,I want to propose an article relating to web design. Id like to elaborate on an intermediate stage in the design process for people who still might not get it.. like me for a long while. Take a look at these two stages in a design process. 1 – gather functional requirements (user a... more...

  • Pixel rulers in visio

    by Noah Iliinsky on 10/23/2007 [0 comments] · 1 request

    Howdy, I’ve managed to trick Visio into displaying the rulers and grid in pixels; a much sought after feat that is as of yet undocumented in the wild. I’d love to publish it on my blog ( http://www.complexdiagrams.com ) first and then re-post/reference it from B&A. What’... more...

  • Scylla and Charybdis: Balancing Advertising and Editorial Needs without Stomping on the User Experience

    by Giovanni Calabro on 10/17/2007 [0 comments] · 0 requests

    This article published as the main feature in uxmag.com, helps readers to: · Develop consistent page structures that “train” readers to view the full width of the page. · Streamline design to facilitate serving multiple advertisements through ad management systems such as DoubleClick · Anal... more...

  • Deliverables for Web apps using Flash

    by prashant Dubey on 10/08/2007 [1 comment] · 3 requests

    Idea is to make a single source web site/app specs and mockups and wireframes, common deliverables, using Flash. The interactivity will be used to navigate within mockups and will be great to make the client clear about the backend process as well as front end. In short, will be great to have a... more...

  • New Research about Scrolling by ClickTale

    by Arik Yavilevich on 10/07/2007 [0 comments] · 4 requests

    Our previous research on this subject was referenced in http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/blasting-the-myth-of by Milissa Tarquini. This brand new research about scrolling behavior sheds new light about the way users browse the web. For example, we found that visitors scroll relative to page h... more...

  • UX, IA, PM and SWE

    by Parth Upadhye on 10/02/2007 [1 comment] · 0 requests

    Recently I commented on Joe Lamanta’s Building Blocks articles and realised that I would like to explore the perspectives of the different players at work, namely UX, IA, PM, and SWE. Is their work defined by their bases or biases? Is what they bring to the table? Or is it what they are exp... more...

  • Conversational search

    by Patrick C. Walsh on 10/01/2007 [0 comments] · 0 requests

    I’ve had this idea for a week or so and I can’t get it out of my head. Imagine my favourite website Amazon in the future. You give some basic details about yourself (family birthdays, likes, hobbies etc) and then create a search persona by selecting a photo or drawing and also a voice... more...

  • Webwork

    by Chris Glasier on 09/23/2007 [2 comments] · 0 requests

    It seems to me that IT can only really expand into society if there is a different approach. My idea is: Webwork takes over from digitised paperwork (office suites). Webwork requires structured (object-oriented) information. Web languages and structured information turn websites into machines. ... more...

  • UserXman - The UX SuperHero!

    by Thomas Schneider on 09/20/2007 [2 comments] · 2 requests

    A Comic about IA/UX. Want to run it? more...

  • To Be Fixed!

    by VJ Beauchamp on 09/19/2007 [0 comments] · 0 requests

    http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/sitemaps_and_site_inde… No images are appearing. Yikes! more...

  • Open Design Manifesto

    by Juhan Sonin on 09/17/2007 [1 comment] · 1 request

    Open Design Manifesto… a case for open source design. Open Design Mission Our designs (patterns, scripts, graphics, ideas, docs) will be available to any designer, to any engineer, to any world citizen, to use and modify without restriction. [I’m motivated to write this article.... more...

  • Usability and UX in a Large Corporation

    by Steven Axler on 09/11/2007 [3 comments] · 11 requests

    Usability and other UX practitioners work in various environments—academia, independent consultancies, consulting firms, corporations—each with their own set of advantages and challenges. Large corporations provide certain levels of security and job satisfaction, and also have potential traps tha... more...

  • 5 second tests

    by Ruairi galavan on 09/11/2007 [0 comments] · 0 requests

    If anyone knows where there are some screen casts of 5 second tests i would love to see a couple. Or if any body would like to post them somewhere? (RE: Today: Jared Spool & Christine Perfetti’s podcast on UIE) more...

  • Bad UX

    by BaldShark - on 08/28/2007 [2 comments] · -1 requests

    Im wondering why a site that’s by designers, and for designers is so poorly designed itself. Strange issues:1. I log in, see my name at the top. I click on Job (for example), my name disappears from the top, and the main nav text gets smaller.2. On the jobs page, since it no longer says m... more...

  • Jumpchart. A before and after story

    by joe m on 08/23/2007 [0 comments] · 1 request

    After a helpful recommendation, I thought I would resubmit an idea to cover our new application Jumpchart. This time, concentrating more on a use case scenario. I would like to detail a typical project initiation before we had Jumpchart, and compare that with today. more...

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