UIEtips article: 12 Best Practices of UX in an Agile Environment – Part 1
When shooting the movie, the director doesn’t necessary film the scenes in the order they’ll appear once edited. Instead, the filmmakers shoot the pieces according to other constraints, such as the...
View ArticleUIEtips: 12 Best Practices for UX in an Agile Environment – Part 2
We’ve been working with a ton of teams in transition to an Agile development process lately and we’ve been trying to understand why many of them are frustrated by the change. They’re struggling with...
View ArticleClik here to view.
@SemanticWill’s Process of Wireframing
Over at Semantic Foundry, designer extraordinaire, Will Evans, has a wonderful essay explaining how he uses wireframing as both a problem setting and a problem solving approach. I pick my primary...
View ArticleTools for Creating Pattern Libraries
Back in 2006, I wrote an article called The Elements of a Design Pattern which has proven to be very popular. The interesting thing about popular articles is they regularly get good comments, long...
View ArticleSpoolCast: Achieving Pattern and Component Reuse with Nathan Curtis
SpoolCast: Achieving Pattern and Component Reuse with Nathan Curtis Recorded: December, 2008. Brian Christiansen, UIE Podcast Producer Duration: 28m | File size: 16MB [ Subscribe to our podcast via...
View ArticleBrian Hochhalter on My Interview With Dan Brown
Over at From Chaos, Brian Hochhalter wrote a very thoughtful review of the interview I did with Dan Brown: Growing documents Brown begins by suggesting that designers start documents with a basic...
View ArticleUIEtips: In Which a Concept Model Makes Me Giddy
For almost ten years, the research team at UIE has been searching to uncover the secrets behind great designs. As we talk to team after team, a key truth continues to emerge: The best teams communicate...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SpoolCast: Roughing it with Interactive Prototypes
Duration: 31 m | 16.5 MB Recorded: December, 2008 Brian Christiansen, UIE Podcast Producer [ Subscribe to our podcast via ←This link will launch the iTunes application.] [ Subscribe with other podcast...
View ArticleUIEtips: Harnessing the Power of Annotations – An Interview with Dan Brown
Right now, in a conference room somewhere, there’s a team of designers standing in front of a whiteboard, thinking about a cool new design idea. It’s highly unlikely that, as the team is standing...
View ArticleUIEtips: Hunkering — Putting Disorientation into the Design Process
Today’s projects can be big and they can be fast. It’s easy to push forward, creating design documents, wireframes, prototypes, and screens, just to get through it on schedule. But, at some point, we...
View ArticleUIE Podcasts: Web App Expert Interviews – Part 2
Last week in part 1 of our series, I brought you 5 great podcasts covering Ajax and accessibility, patterns and components, web form design, web standards, and interactive prototyping. In part 2, we...
View ArticleWhy Designers and Developers Need Couples Therapy – July 30 UIE Virtual...
We often use a conveyor belt method to manage products. Designers do their work up front, then “hand off” their creation expecting it can be built and won’t change. Then the Developers need to create...
View ArticleUIEtips article: Getting the Most From Design Deliverables
For today’s designers and developers, the biggest challenges involve how we transition, or hand off, a project at each phase. We know that a conveyor belt system of project management creates issues...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SpoolCast: Prototyping Experiences
Duration: 39m | 21MB Recorded: August, 2009 Brian Christiansen, UIE Podcast Producer [ Subscribe to our podcast via ←This link will launch the iTunes application.] [ Subscribe with other podcast...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SpoolCast: Prototyping Seminar Follow-up
Duration: 46m | 25MB Recorded: November, 2009 Brian Christiansen, UIE Podcast Producer [ Subscribe to our podcast via ←This link will launch the iTunes application.] [ Subscribe with other podcast...
View ArticleUIEtips: The Essence of a Successful Persona Project
Personas have been part of the UX toolbox for a while. Yet we’ve always wondered why teams don’t use them more often. A few years back, we set off to answer that question. We discovered a variety of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
SpoolCast: Interesting Moments with Bill Scott
Duration: 36m | 17 MB Recorded: January, 2010 Brian Christiansen, UIE Podcast Producer [ Subscribe to our podcast via ←This link will launch the iTunes application.] [ Subscribe with other podcast...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Web App Masters: Back Stage at 37signals
When was the last time you witnessed a web site redesign live at a conference? It’s exactly what Jason Fried of 37signals did in Minneapolis at the Web App Masters Tour. Jason shared with the audience...
View ArticleUIEtips: The Discipline of Content Strategy
A couple of days ago, I had the honor to once again see Kristina Halvorson inspire a gathering of developers and designers. Wedged between sessions on CSS3 and HTML5, Kristina introduced the crowd to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
UIEtips: How to Create a UX Design Library
I got it wrong. It was the other day when I was talking with EightShapes’ Nathan Curtis while recording an upcoming podcast. As we were talking, I had suggested that a UX Design Library was a snapshot...
View Article
