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Toolbox Series

Posted on February 10, 2009. Filed under: Notes, design, ideas, neat tools, toolboxSeries | Tags: , , , |

I’m going to begin a series that will detail aspects and tools of the UX process that I’ve used and some that I’ve come across in my research. This will include (organized according to topic):

Motivations

Interviews
Personas
Scenarios/user stories

Modeling

Activity model
Task flows

Ideation

Paper prototyping
Design studios
Design strategy sessions

Creation

Wireframes
Mockups
Styleguide

Technical Prototypes

Flash
HTML/CSS

Evaluation

User testing
Design principles review
Heuristic evaluation

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Function before Form

Posted on December 8, 2008. Filed under: Notes, cool links, design, ideas |

I’ve been browsing around A List Apart lately for some inspiration, and I found this article: A Dao of Web Design. Extremely well written and carefully crafted, this article gave me one of my new favorite quotes:
Firstly, think about what your pages do, not what they look like. Let your design flow from the services [...]

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