Category Archives: Usability
My Tool of Choice: Adobe Fireworks
Prototyping tools can be a huge benefit to design workflow. However, it seems to me that the most common wireframing applications (Visio, OmniGraffle, Axure RP) whilst fine for producing low-fidelity mock-ups, are a barrier when taking the finished design through … Continue reading
The Right Way to Wireframe
This video does a great job of demonstrating the wireframing process from lo-fi to hi-fi wireframes.
Ergonomics for Interaction Designers
Rob Tannen presents an insightful guide to Ergonomics for Interaction Designers. This presentation is based on a number of articles found on Rob Tannen’s website: Designing for Humans.
Microsoft's Vision For 2019
Some inspiring User Experience design from Microsoft… for once. The most interesting and engaging technology here is demonstrated right at the beginning in the form of an interactive education platform. Unfortunately however, I think the business applications are far more … Continue reading
Business Analysis and User Experience Activities
During the Opencast Matterhorn Leadership and Planning Meeting, Allison Bloodworth and Judy Stern of UC Berkeley Educational Technology Services provided an overview of the Business Analysis and User Experience roles and processes. The Matterhorn BA/U Team was proposed as a … Continue reading
Multitouch Interfaces
Darren David and Nathan Moody of Stimulant, sharing how they approach the design of large-scale multitouch interfaces.
Data Visualisation
This talk comes from Michal Migurski at Stamen and discuses interaction innovations and their approach to data visualisation.
Prototyping with Fireworks CS4
From Lynda.com, this video shows some of the new features of Adobe Fireworks as a prototyping tool. Some of the highlights include: Smartguides Updates to the Pages panel Auto (re)numbering of pages 9 Slice scaling.
Effective Protoyping
A short video clip from the Effective Prototyping workshop for the TriUPA group.
MAYA's Human Centered Design
If you have to explain to someone what human centered design is and you only have about two minutes: show them this movie from MAYA design.