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Where Wireframes Are Concerned

“While there remain certain specific contexts where it is advisable to craft and present wireframe layouts for client evaluation and approval, this practice is often a really bad move and one made at the wrong moment in the design process, and for the wrong reasons. Wireframes can be useful, valuable artifacts for informing the designer’s [...]

The Power of Visual Communication

Experience Design 101

“Experience Design is an approach to creating successful experiences for people in any medium. This approach includes consideration and design in all 3 spatial dimensions, over time, all 5 common senses, and interactivity, as well as customer value, personal meaning, and emotional context. Experience Design is not merely the design of Web pages or other [...]

Release The Stories In Your Organization

Release The Stories In Your Organization
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The Mobile Internet Report

“Material wealth creation / destruction should surpass earlier computing cycles. The mobile Internet cycle, the 5th cycle in 50 years, is just starting. Winners in each cycle often create more market capitalization than in the last. New winners emerge, some incumbents survive – or thrive – while many past winners falter.
The mobile Internet is ramping [...]

Designing in the face of change

“Designers are facing simultaneous and extremely meaningful shifts from artifact to experience, from styling to emotional resonance, and from the massive and faceless to the local and personal. These changes are not immediate, and are not complete; just as they didn’t begin overnight, they will continue to evolve as culture continues to morph.
These shifts, however, [...]

Ad Agencies Don’t Need UX Designers

“In the digital age, many advertising agencies think of their work as a marriage between two different worlds: traditional advertising that focuses on messaging, and software development, which is focused on designing products. Digital is merely a new ‘channel’ for advertising – like television, radio and print before. In most instances, this has been an [...]

The 10 dos and don’ts of website development

“With the current economic downturn and significant layoffs among sales staff, the web has become more important than ever as a means of communicating with customers/clients/membership. But I have yet to meet a CEO who likes website development. It makes business leaders uncomfortable. The web experts speak in a cryptic language – CMS, KM, XML, [...]

Designomics

“Design means designing the entire customer experience, from discovering what people really need to shaping interactive solutions for them and finally creating a hard product package such as a cell phone or car that is both aesthetically pleasing and useful to people.
This is the where companies create economic value today. This is heart of Designomics, [...]

How UCD and Agile can live together

“User Centered Design is the methodology by which you design a holistic product while considering the needs of stakeholders and users. Agile Development is a programming methodology and philosophy intended to overcome the challenges of the waterfall development process and to deliver clean and functional code. How can these two methodologies come together?” full article [...]