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Toolbox Series: Scenarios and User Stories
Scenarios
I think a quote that sums up the essence of scenarios can be found within Dan Saffer’s Designing for Interaction:
“Scenarios provide a fast and effective way to imagine the design concepts in use. In a sense, scenarios are prototypes built of words.”
Taking a persona, you can create some different scenarios for your user to walk [...]
Toolbox Series: User Interviews
As I was writing this entry, I realized that I had even more to add to the ‘toolbox’…so keep in mind that this is an overview at best of user interviews and there are tons of books out there dedicated to this subject alone. My large influences for this section would have to be Designing [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Toolbox Series
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
I’m looking forward to it [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Tufte and the Super Graphic
On monday I was lucky enough to attend Edward Tufte’s seminar “Presenting Data and Information.” Known as the ‘da Vinci of data’, he has a wealth of advice on preparing information to ensure maximum readability as well as how to communicate efficiently in a presentation.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Lightbox
I figured out how to implement Lightbox today, which is quite a neat little tool if used properly. As the saying goes, just because you can use it doesn’t mean you should. I think it’s perfect for videos or for showing off a couple of pictures, but it’s no way to showcase a gallery unless [...]
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