Conversations about mobile UX are often skewed by ‘the next big thing’ in the previous news cycle. Dakota Reese Brown suggests an alternative view of the mobile space based on principles rather than isolated tactics.
Academic Insights Tested in the Real World
The IDEA Conference took place in Toronto on September 15-16. Expand your practice by absorbing the best thinking on Social Experience Design. Brought to you in cooperation with the IA Institute.
Social and Experience Design: Inspired Ideas, Practical Outcomes
Talking down a hostage-taker requires extraordinary empathy and close attention to communication patterns. Bryan McClain and Demetrius Madrigal of ActiveComm Labs show us how we can apply these skills when conducting user research.
A screenwriter has a compass that can guide him through the writing process. Cindy Chastain chronicles how we can translate this approach to help us remember the quality and value of the experience.
How a storytelling method can help unify teams and create better products
Fred Beecher categorizes prototypes along two dimensions of fidelity –visual and functional — and explains how to choose the right kind of prototype that answers the right questions.
Using appropriate fidelity for the situation
In this podcast, Chris Baum talks
with Bill DeRouchey about how
Interaction 10 is being redesigned based on lessons from previous
years.
IxDA's conference brings a fresh program back to Savannah in 2010
In preparation for IDEA 2009, Russ talks to Thomas Malaby about his experiences working in Second Life and the future of virtual worlds.
Living a Second Life in Online Worlds
Designers often dismiss deep consideration of content. Chris Detzi shows how this affects project implementation and helps us
create experiences that hold
content more effectively.
Bridging the gap between design and content
In preparation for IDEA 2009, Russ talks to Leisa Reichelt about her experience designing for Drupal 7, how to design in open source and cross-cultural environments, and how she recharges her design work with art and family.
Peter Gremett shows how using a wiki to capture your design is a great way to be adaptive as you build and deliver product
in Agile environments.
How your design team can benefit from wiki collaboration while avoiding its pitfalls