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How to Make a Concept Model « Boxes and Arrows

August 2, 2014

concept model / design / user experience

A concept model is a visual representation of a set of ideas that clarifies the concept for both the thinker and the audience. It is a useful and powerful tool for user experience designers but also for business, engineering, and marketing… basically anyone who needs to communicate complexity. Which is most of us, these days.

Looking for a word

August 1, 2014

design / prototyping / user experience

The key to it is that it takes time and sustained focus on a problem to really understand it…to see it from different angles and to grok it fully. For me this becomes easier when you prototype and test often…when you watch people use your product over and over again enough so that you see the usage patterns that aren’t obvious.

GoodUI

August 1, 2014

design / user experience

A Good User Interface has high conversion rates and is easy to use. In other words, it’s nice to both the business side as well as the people using it.

Designing with Dynamic Content

August 1, 2014

content strategy / design

For most of my career I’ve had to battle designers creating incredibly unrealistic best-case scenario mock-ups. You know what I’m talking about. The user’s name is “Sara Smith” and always fits neatly on one line. Her profile picture looks like it was clipped out of a magazine. Her profile is completely filled out. The two columns of her profile content magically are exactly the same height.

Platonic Content | Palantir.net

July 31, 2014

apis / content strategy / rest

Have the changes in recent years all been pulling us in different directions, or are they pulling us in the same direction? In fact, viewed through the right lens there is only one change. It’s a change that is fundamental to the Web, and really to all digital information. We just view it through three different lenses, depending on the task at hand.

Iconic

July 31, 2014

design / icons

The first and only icon system designed for the modern web with all the tools to make them your own.

BeeSweet Lemonade

July 30, 2014

business / kids

In Austin, a four year old came up with an idea for a children’s business competition. All of those things are so wonderful, but the idea was to sell lemonade and help honeybees. Brilliant.