Tag Archives: UX

SXSW Live: Right Way To Wireframe

Only got to see the tail end of RWTW part one. Fred opens by saying it’s time to nut up, He also admits that he loves prototyping, and can’t think of a situation where prototyping can’t help your design. As designers, we’re not making solutions, we’re making hypotheses, and building towards a solution. So the [...]

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Join the IDEArmy at SXSW

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If you know me, you know that I volunteer my time to lead sponsorship and marketing for the IDEA conference because I believe it’s an incredibly valuable learning experience for the UX community. Designing for complex information spaces melding the physical and virtual is critical knowledge for anyone with a stake in designing digital today, [...]

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Email is Killing Your Business

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Email has become the elephant in the room. For just about every single business and education institution, the utter dependence on email as a primary communications and knowledge sharing channel is putting a quiet stranglehold on every aspect of operation. Email as a problem space goes so deep and so wide, it’s difficult for most [...]

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Narrative Design at UXSears

This past week I had the pleasure of being invited by Dennis Schleicher to visit Sears and host a discussion on visual and narrative techniques found in dramatic storytelling, and how they apply to system organization, social media and user experience.

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How Screenwriting and Film Theory Creates Enchanting Websites

User Experience as a field, and Website creation in general can stand to learn a thing or two from distinctly old-media craft: namely screenwriting and film theory. This year, I’m lucky enough to be joined by Cindy Chastain in proposing to present the topic at SXSW 2010 on exactly how to do that. To expand [...]

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