Last Thursday I attended the monthly SwissCHI meeting. That evening's topic was "Prototyping of Rich Internet Applications" – Andreas Binggeli, Marc Blume and Yuan-Yuan Sun presented their Master's thesis (from their MASHCID studies). Interestingly, but not surprisingly, paper prototypes compared really well to more elaborate prototypes done in Axure RP Pro or realized using Ajax-y [...]
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In his article, "Design Vs. Design Thinking", Business Week's Bruce Nussbaum offers some great insight into the current struggle between business schools, design schools, designers and business people around who actually defines "design thinking" and what "design thinking" actually is supposed to mean:
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This is a summary of my experiences with different tools for and approaches to prototyping. Prototyping is, eventually, a central area of work for interaction designers, information architects and people with other roles in the software development process.
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Beautiful article on how to stay motivated in the creative field:
Whether your chosen medium is pictures or language, food or formulas, everyone has the capacity to be creative in their work. But we can often lose our motivation to create, making it difficult to stay focused and excited on a project. So how does one [...]
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Get it while it's hot: Jim Kalbach's book "Designing Web Navigation" (O'Reilley) has just been released. In Jim's own words (from his new blog, Experiencing Information):
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Recently our Hamburg User Experience Roundtable took place at the offices of the local market research and usability evaluation institute, SirValUse. Our hosts were happy to give an impressive and well-founded talk on one of the techniques they’re using – eye tracking (you can download the slides here – sorry, they are in German). As [...]
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It’s the third time this year that I’m in the US to conduct usability tests during the ASUG forums. Back in April I was in Atlanta, GA; in September I spent some time in Phoenix, AZ, and now I’m here in Dallas, TX. Time and again I feel it’s extremely fascinating to get into a [...]
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