Article Idea:
What's in Your Toolbox?
suggested by Kate Walser on 2007/06/04
As designers, IAs, user experience / user centered design, etc. experts, we all have our toolboxes. Most include Visio, typical MS Office products, and a slurry of others, including content inventory, card sorting, survey, design, usability testing, and accessibility testing tools and applications. Some of us have even developed our own ad hoc tools and templates, such as Joe Lamantia’s card sort template provided on B&A.
For this article (or series of articles – look to you all for your feedback there), I propose we look a bit at what we’re all using. I’ll survey a small sample of professionals and see what’s in their toolboxes, share with B&A readers via this article (or series), and then leave it open to readers to suggest additional favorites.
We learn about tools across sites and venues, so why not bring them together via discussion and comments in B&A?
Want to see this idea turned into a story?
12 people said yes. | 0 people said no.
Austin Govella
483 Reputation points
Posted 2007/06/05 @ 08:51AM with
Kate,
This is a great idea. I’d like to suggest some collaboration. Daivd Fiorito and I were just working on a similar surveys independently. I think we’re going to put our surveys together. Would you be interested in grouping together?
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Austin
Kate Walser
30 Reputation points
Posted 2007/06/05 @ 12:13PM with
Absolutely. Would be interesting and fun!
Donna Maurer
165 Reputation points
Posted 2007/06/05 @ 16:08PM with
Do you mean only software tools, or techniques?
Kate Walser
30 Reputation points
Posted 2007/06/06 @ 14:07PM with
We could do both in pieces – was originally thinking of starting with software tools, but realize that in surveying that, we often discover the techniques at the same time.