According to Alan Cooper, author of About Face 3.0 with Robert Riemann and David Cronin, “The persona is a powerful, multipurpose design tool that helps overcome several problems that currently plague the development of digital products. Personas help designers:
Determine what a product should do and how it should behave.
Communicate with stakeholders, developers, and other designers.
Build [...]
Excellent post about the term “entrepreneur”, saying that it is loaded with outdated associations.
However, the lack of a new term is significant in itself. These people are not entrepreneurs because they don’t spend their time managing a business. They spend their time writing, painting, making toys….following their passion. They are writers, painters, and toy makers.
As [...]
This is a great list of references for user interface design and usability guidelines:
Apple Human Interface Guidelines
iPhone Human Interface Guidelines
Windows Vista UX Guidelines
Windows XP Design Guidelines
Nokia UI Style/Visual Guidelines
GNOME Human Interface Guidelines 2.2
KDE 4.0 Visual Guide
Java Look and Feel Design Guidelines
Comcast Style Guide
Usability.gov Research-Based [...]
I came across this new website from Adobe called INSPIRE, an online publication of the Adobe Experience Design Team, which will easily attract anyone into software, web & graphic design.
The Adobe team shares valuable, real-life experiences both written & via videos.
Here are some interesting content:
Adobe and the future of [...]
The 37better Project, from the 37signals guys (archive from 2001 – some links may not work), has some really cool promotional things that they did for their company. It brought them tremendous exposure. The 37betters were linked up everywhere and discussed at length in all the right places.
Slow times are a perfect time to start [...]
The new marketing reality is all about relationships and according to the new marketing reality article, it’s impossible to create relationships from outside the circle.
Shouting your message to your audience in the traditional advertising way is still relevant but declining. Now it’s about getting involved in the conversation that your audience is having. Shouting is [...]
Great article from Zappos CEO about it’s time for CEOs to get on Twitter.
It’s amazing that so many CEO’s still don’t get this couple of other thoughts and support points to the article in the link above:
One of the key reasons CEO’s and companies stay out of this space is time commitment, no excuse, but [...]
“Usability is always secondary. It’s never the most important thing about an experience. I will accept poor usability if I get what I need, if the total experience is great. I will reject perfect usability if I am not rewarded with a useful, engaging experience.”
- Donald Norman, author of “The Design of Everyday Things”