Collecting amazing and interesting things on the web.
September 12, 2012
design / design studio / product design / user experience
The logistics and mechanics of how to do a design studio. What materials are needed, what kind of teams to have, how to break up the session, etc. Invaluable resource.
September 12, 2012
design / product design / user experience
Journey modeling is the process of illustrating a complete story centered on the relationship that unfolds over time between an individual and a system, service, product, brand, or organization. Through journey modeling, we describe what an individual thinks, feels, says, and does over time, and how these actions and reactions change based on the person’s interactions with the organization and factors that may be beyond the organization’s control. By playing out a user’s experience over time, we build an understanding of connectedness and causality, observing when various forces intersect and alter a person’s emotions, opinions, and actions.
September 12, 2012
design / product design / user experience
Fantastic methods for product discovery – the oft-forgotten part of design where we figure out what the problem actually is, and what ways we can solve it.
September 11, 2012
design / responsive design / style-guide
A fantastic collection of patterns and modules for responsive design.
September 8, 2012
Matthew Paul Turner reflects on how he talks to his four year old about God. Encouraging, to me.
September 4, 2012
design / mobile / responsive design
Emerging patterns for dealing with complex, lengthy and/or multi-level navigations.
August 27, 2012
agile / design / prototyping / user experience
This year, we predict that we’ll see a ton more UX professionals prototyping than ever before. This will become our silver bullet to getting to shared understanding fast. ‘Want to know what I’m thinking? Here, let me show you,’ will be the war cry of the modern designer.
August 22, 2012
In the last two years a simple, strong truth has emerged: The future of books is built upon networked platforms, not islands.
An essay about what a contemporary digital book looks like — scattered and disjointed, spread across multiple platforms in various states of open and closed.”
August 22, 2012
javascript / jquery-plugins / responsive design
In our responsive client work, we frequently find ourselves in need of a carousel component that is lightweight, fluid in layout, usable with different input modes (mouse, keyboard, touch), and extensible to the particulars of each implementation. We’ve found that most third-party carousels available online fall short of these requirements in one way or another, so we built our own, and recently made it public for others to use as well.
August 17, 2012
design / research / user experience
To me, it demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of what ethnographic research actually is. We don’t go around asking people, ‘What do you want?’ or the absurd ‘Would you use this?’ Instead we work to understand their current behaviors, attitudes, motivations, and frustrations — what they do, how they feel, what they wish to accomplish, and what’s getting in their way. And then it is our jobs as designers and product owners to get to the root of the problem and craft a solution. One that will be both effective and pleasurable and hopefully a little bit surprising.