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Entries Tagged as 'Methodology'

“Using Mental Models for Tactics and Strategy” webinar with Indi Young

December 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Webinars

Do you know about the new webinar series co-produced by Rosenfeld Media and Smart Experience called Future Practice? It’s a great new series with some of the best voices in user experience talking about how they see best practices turning into next practices.
The first webinar was “Modern Web Form Design with Luke Wroblewski” and you [...]

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Personas in the 2008 Presidental Election

November 2nd, 2008 · 3 Comments · Gadgetry

I’ve talked before about how designers use personas to capture user needs, behaviors and motivations. If you were ever wondering how those insights help guide the product design, this pretty much says it all:

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Questions?
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Who coined the term “wireframes”?

November 2nd, 2008 · 2 Comments · Design, E-mails, Web Development

Wireframes, wireframes, wireframes. It’s one of the those “insider” terms that gets thrown around the user experience design community all the time. We go to great lengths to explain what they are — to our colleagues, our clients, and our friends (“What exactly do you do again?”). [Dan Brown's explanation on Boxes and Arrows; Sarah [...]

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Web 2.0 Expo NY: “10 Tips for Creative Environments” with Adaptive Path’s Bryan Mason and Sarah Nelson

September 20th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Conferences

The last session I attended on Thursday at Web 2.0 Expo NY was a talk by two members of Adaptive Path. Sarah Nelson is a design strategist and Bryan Mason is the former COO and currently a board member.
My Twitter notes from the session:

The Neo-Futurists: 30 plays in 60 minutes. 2-12 new plays every [...]

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UX Bookshelf

July 19th, 2008 · 11 Comments · Design, User Experience

In the right sidebar of my blog I promote my UX Bookshelf. I use Amazon Associates just to get the smallest kickback (I’ve never actually made any money with this, but I’d like to!). The other day I noticed that they have a new carousel widget (released in April) that allows you to display up [...]

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