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Researcher-practitioner interaction update (UXRPI)

IROAI — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 03:00:31 +0000

“I spent some time lately catching up with the status of various things related to my recent researcher-practitioner interaction efforts, my latest “UX community give back” focus. Something I try to make small advancements in during my “spare” time, with the hope of helping foster some longer-term benefits. Some of this is a repeat of postings/comments on gaps and IUE but it helps me (at least) to compile it all together in a new way.” (Keith Instone)

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Complete Beginner’s Guide to Design Research

IROAI — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 01:10:06 +0000

“Research actually begins the moment we learn about a project, whether we acknowledge it or not. As user experience designers we aren’t content simply designing to specification. Instead, we ask questions; we take notes; we learn everything we can about our client and their audience—and that’s before we even begin! In this article, we explore the (purported) method to this (seeming) madness, appropriately known as design research.” (Andrew Maier via UX Booth) full article …

The Ten Commandments of User Experience

IROAI — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:27:05 +0000

The Ten Commandments Of User Experience

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Laban Movement Analysis for User Experience Design

IROAI — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:14:17 +0000

Laban Movement Analysis provides a language for notating and documenting physical movement—mostly for dance choreography, but in acting as well. Its purpose is to document specific movements in dance. There are three aspects of Laban Movement Analysis that my experience and research tell me have some interesting implications for UX design:

Effort Actions—which categorize the ways people perform actions and their intentions, based on weight, time, space, and flow
Body—which connects the structure and physical characteristics of the body in motion and how they interact
Shape—which describes the ways in which the body changes shape during movement, in relationship to the environment in which motion takes place

Traci Lapore for UX Matters (via BogieZero)

Rich Internet Application Screen Design

IROAI — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:47:26 +0000

“Designing a rich Internet application (RIA) can test even an experienced design team. The hardest challenge is to blend Web and desktop paradigms to create a responsive and intuitive experience. Some paradigms that exist in the desktop environment are ill-suited for the Web, while many of the Web paradigms people are familiar with (paging, explicit refresh) are no longer necessary with RIA technologies like Flex and Ajax. As this space matures, we are learning more and more about which boundaries can be pushed, and which patterns transcend time and technology. While working on the book Designing Web Interfaces, Bill Scott and I explored hundreds of Web applications searching for these patterns.” (Theresa Neil) full article

Better User Experience With Storytelling – Part One

IROAI — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:15:11 +0000

“Stories have defined our world. They have been with us since the dawn of communication, from cave walls to the tall tales recounted around fires. They have continued to evolve with their purpose remaining the same; To entertain, to share common experiences, to teach, and to pass on traditions.

Today we communicate a bit differently. Our information is fragmented across various mass-media channels and delivered through ever-changing technology. It has become watered down, cloned, and is churned out quickly in 140-character blurbs. We’ve lost that personal touch where we find an emotional connection that makes us care.

Using storytelling, however, we can pull these fragments together into a common thread. We can connect as real people, not just computers. In this article we’ll explore how user experience professionals and designers are using storytelling to create compelling experiences that build human connections.” full article

Bringing User Centered Design to the Agile Environment

IROAI — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:02:18 +0000

“Envisioned by a group of developers, Agile is an iterative development approach that takes small steps toward defining a product or service. At the end of each step, we have something built that we could release to the market if we choose to and therefore it can assure some speed to market where waterfall methods usually fail. Agile prefers to work out how to build something as we go, rather than do a waterfall style deep dive into specification and then finding out we can’t build parts of the spec for some reason e.g. a misjudgment of feasibility, misjudgment of time to build, or changing requirements.” full article

RUX Agile

IROAI — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:08:15 +0000

RUX Agile Jan 10

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UX Deliverables in Practice

IROAI — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:03:41 +0000

UX Deliverables in Practice

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Wireframes for the Wicked

IROAI — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 18:51:54 +0000

Wireframes for the Wicked

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