mattecook: Sharing a Project in Process
December 2, 2012
design / kickoff / project-management
Matt Cook continues a series of posts about a public redesign of Reading is Fundamental. Here, the project manager gives his perspective.
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“Reading Is Fundamental Kickoff,” an article by Dan Mall
December 2, 2012
design / kickoff / research / user experience
Dan Mall introduces a project for Reading is Fundamental, and details the kickoff meeting. While there are some issues with it and he addresses them, it sounds like the best kickoff meeting I’ve ever seen.
Build a Winning UX Strategy from the Kano Model – Jarad M. Spool – UXmas – Wishing you a great experience through the festive season!
December 2, 2012
design / jared spool / user experience
To kick things off we’re delighted to introduce our first UXmas goody for 2012. A free virtual seminar entitled ‘Build a Winning UX Strategy from the Kano Model’, generously provided (and presented) by Jared Spool of User Interface Engineering (retail value $129).
Rands In Repose: Stables and Volatiles
November 26, 2012
I believe a healthy company that wants to continue to grow and invent needs to equally invest in both their Stables and their Volatiles.
Your Stables are there to remind you about reality and to define process whereby large groups of people can be coordinated to actually get work done. Your Stables bring predictability, repeatability, credibility to your execution, and you need to build a world where they can thrive.
Your Volatiles are there to remind you that nothing lasts, and that the world is full of Volatiles who consider it their mission in life to replace the inefficient, boring, and uninspired. You can’t actually build them a world because they’ll think you’re up to something Stable, so you need to create a corner of the building where they can disrupt.
LukeW | An Event Apart: Designing for Content Management Systems
November 20, 2012
content management systems / content strategy / design / user experience
Notes from Jared Ponchot’s talk at An Event Apart San Francisco on how to design for effectively delivering content. There are great pieces on how to have a good discovery process, what questions to ask and goals to set, prioritization, etc.
LukeW | UI17: Three Levels of Happy Design
November 10, 2012
design / luke-wroblewski / usability / user experience
We are really good at eliminating frustration on Web sites but we’re not great at moving to the next level: creating delight for our customers. Going from usable to delightful comes down to three elements: pleasure, flow, and meaning. These are not sequential but intermingled states.
Reclaiming the Mission » The Table in the Neighborhood
November 10, 2012
church / david fitch / ministry
One important pathway to mission in the neighborhood is “the meal.” This is what I have been learning these past many years. It all starts by someone inviting a few Christians who live in close geographical proximity (neighborhood) to share a meal at the same time every week.
Redesigning the Country Selector – Baymard Institute
October 29, 2012
design / javascript / jquery / jquery-plugins / usability
During our recent checkout study we found several usability issues when using a drop-down for your country selector: a lack of overview, unclear sorting, scrolling issues, inconsistent UIs, a lack of context on mobile devices, and finally, they break the user’s tab-flow.
So we took it upon ourselves to redesign the country selector.
A New Microsoft.com | Trent Walton
October 27, 2012
css / design / microsoft / responsive design
A great write-up on how microsoft.com went responsive – from planning and design to code to componentization. Fantastically helpful – especially, I think it’ll prove, for large sites.
IE10 Snap Mode and Responsive Design – TimKadlec.com
October 27, 2012
browsers / design / internet explorer / responsive design
Regardless, the takeaway for today is that you need to start adding the @-ms-viewport rule to your CSS now to ensure your sites look as you would expect on Windows 8.