Stephen Turbek

Stephen Turbek

Stephen Turbek leads a user experience group at a major financial services company, helping clients manage complex problems to create efficient and enjoyable experiences for their users. Find out more at stephen.turbek.com

Stories by Stephen Turbek

Stephen Turbek highlights the various, subtle pressures on a user that reduce a user’s “effective intelligence”, or what they actually use when using an interface.

April 20th, 2011

Are your users S.T.U.P.I.D?

How good design can make users effective

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The success of the simple search box has relegated advanced search to second-class status. Stephen Turbek looks to resurrect this useful feature from the dustbins of the design toolbox and suggest some useful ways for designers to utilize it effectively.

January 16th, 2008

Advancing Advanced Search

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Information architects, afraid to step on designers’ toes, may actually render wireframes unusable. Stephen Turbek talks about Verizon, the similarities between wireframes and iPods, and how to get real.

September 19th, 2006

Real Wireframes Get Real Results

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The more automated our lives become, the less time we seem to have. And as an information architect, a lot of time is spent making sitemaps … by hand. How valuable are sitemaps to a project team and to clients? Would your time be better spent doing other tasks than hand building sitemaps? What if we told you, “now you can.” Find out how.

January 30th, 2006

The Lazy IA’s Guide to Making Sitemaps

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