Yes, I’m obsessed with Konigi’s Omnigraffle wireframe stencils, but what if you could have real-life stencils to help you sketch? You can. They’re called UI Stencils, and they’re made by Design Commission, an experience design agency in Seattle.
Drawing can be intimidating for a lot of folks, and the fear of not being a “good drawer” [...]
My friend Paul Isakson recently posted this great quotation by Jim Jarmusch, the indie filmmaker (Broken Flowers, Coffee and Cigarettes, Ghost Dog).
His words so beautifully capture something I’ve felt for a long time, and I wanted to share it with all of you.
“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that
resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.
Devour [...]
Tags:Design·Inspiration·Pleasure
I just got home from Savannah last night, and I’m already missing everyone terribly. The four days I spent there at IxDA’s Interaction10, their third annual conference, was one of the best conference experiences I’ve ever had (and as you may know, I go to a lot of conferences!).
Not only is Savannah a wonderfully beautiful, [...]
Tags:Community·Conferences·Design·Pleasure·Twitter·User Experience
More than a year ago I very proudly announced that Boxee, the much-loved social media center software company, had hired me as the user experience designer for their beta. In the five months that I worked with them, I conducted user interviews and usability testing to identify people’s needs, behaviors and frustrations, and redesigned the [...]
Tags:Clients·Consulting·Design·Methodology·Pleasure·User Experience
I’m completely in love with this new commercial by Freschetta that demonstrates what “faceted filtering” would look like in the physical world.
Pattern Definition
Faceted filtering is a mechanism that allows the user to progressively reduce a large group of items by selecting the desired attributes from various dimensions (or facets) of those items
Note: faceting filtering is [...]
