Archive for the ‘Design’ Category
The value of brainstorming
In: Design
1 Jul 2011Doesn’t it feel like for every good idea there are many similar bad ones? To illustrate what I mean, here is a text from “Good in a Room” by Stephanie Palmer: A year after Legally Blonde was released, a writing team came into my office and pitched me, quite literally, another version of Legally Blonde. [...]
Emergence of patterns in mobile app design
In: Design
6 Apr 2011We are getting to a point, where we are seeing recurring elements in the design of mobile applications. Evidence is in two third party resources I found via people I follow in twitter. By third party is meant that they have no official affiliation to Apple or Android (sorry RIM and Microsoft, but we need [...]
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- Tags: android, apple, Flipboard, iOS, iphone, Patterns, Pulse, usability design, UX Design
Thoughts on Design Thinking
In: Design
7 Oct 2010Before I start to speak my mind, on my experience with Design Thinking, here is the definition from Tim Brown: Design thinking is an approach that uses the designer’s sensibility and methods for problem solving to meet people’s needs in a technologically feasible and commercially viable way. In other words, design thinking is human-centered innovation. [...]
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- Tags: Design Thinking, Prototyping, SSES
“Let’s be creative” is uncreative
In: Design
29 Dec 2009Your team faces a problem and somebody says: “let’s be creative.. and find a solution to this problem” or “we need to discuss how to do it, lets do something creative”. Doesn’t matter what you are doing or what needs to be done, if somebody tells you this, mostly like you will end with some [...]
Progressive Enhancement in 2 minutes
5 Aug 2009Wikipedia states that Progressive Enhancement principle: uses web technologies in a layered fashion that allows everyone to access the basic content and functionality of a web page, using any browser or Internet connection, while also providing those with better bandwidth or more advanced browser software an enhanced version of the page This is the best [...]
A fever can teach you about Design and Usability
In: Design
4 Aug 2009A couple of months ago I had a nasty fever. Nasty because it was high in temperature, I felt like crap and took me around a week to feel better. The interesting thing is that I didn’t have any other symptoms, only the fever, so I figured out there was something inside me, that the [...]
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- Tags: Design, fever, usability design
Balsamiq Mockups: Rapid Sketching of Wireframes
In: Design
16 Jun 2009Balsamiq Mockups is a program that helps you create wireframes and/or software mockups. When you draw the mockups they look like hand made and sketchy. This way, stakeholders involved in the process of developing the application, can focus on functionality and the problem the app will solve, not in the colors and icons used. The [...]
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- Tags: balsamiqmockups, Design, wireframes
Wireframes Done Right
In: Design
13 Jun 2009Wireframes are drawings of website, used to illustrate: how a web application will function, what will be the content and how the visitor will navigate. They are not used to illustrate the look and feel (graphic design) of a site. When designing web applications first, comes the functionality and then the graphics. Main reason: graphics [...]
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