Yesterday I viewed an excellent presentation by Will Tschumy. I had originally planned to embed the presentation here along with the notes I made. But I started thinking, did I really want this to be one of those kind of posts or should it be something different? A lot of thoughts bubbled up [...]
Can I get an amen? When you have 41 minutes, this video is really worth the time:
… when you make this effort to use color and size and weight and contrast and style in order to direct attention, and in order to support the content based on importance, very often naturally you get something that [...]
I recently had to help communicate a fairly abstract concept to a large number of stakeholders. I could tell everyone had a different interpretation of this concept when I talked to them. The reason? The concept had a significant offline, aka meatspace, component to it. The flow charts and wireframes [...]
I’ve been demoing and letting various stakeholders use the prototype I recently built. A few more thoughts have emerged through this process.
Leave the prototype with them.
This may seem counter-intuitive, to the traditional notion of stakeholder signoff often used in software development, but I don’t think it’s realistic to expect that people will be able [...]
It’s been a busy week. On Tuesday I finished building a prototype that represents the initial phase of a fairly elaborate software product. I had spent the previous month: researching, designing task flows & wireframes, drawing user experience storyboards, and putting all of these design artifacts together into a requirements document.
After reviewing the [...]