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Life as a consultant « I draw boxes - A blog on user experience & design
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A blog on user experience and design. November 2, 2009. Life as a consultant. I’ve just finished my first 2 months working as a consultant. On 1st September 2009 I started work at EMC Consulting, the number 2 digital agency in the UK (according to the NMA top 100 list. Life as a consultant definitely seems different to working in an agency. I’ve jotted down a few of the differences here. There’s no messing around you have to be delivering the goods from day one. 1 Working on-site with clients. The model ...
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Raison d’être « I draw boxes - A blog on user experience & design
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A blog on user experience and design. May 30, 2008. So this is my first post…. I’m not sure what this site will develop in to – if anything (useful). But I’ve created it because I think it’s important to share ideas relating to making and planning web sites. Information architecture is such a new and evolving discipline, I wanted to get involved in the community to let other know what it is to me, and to find out what it is to them. So on these pages I intend to share ideas on:. Share practical and techi...
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Good books « I draw boxes - A blog on user experience & design
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A blog on user experience and design. June 16, 2008. Two books that have changed the way I look at design. The design of everyday things. This has to come first in my book recommendations because for me it is an absolutely seminal work. It will totally change the way you look at the world and how it is designed. You will start to look at products you can’t use easily or don’t understand and wonder. Although this book does not deal specifically with digital products, the ideas and concepts apply universal...
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The stupidity of rel=nofollow « I draw boxes - A blog on user experience & design
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A blog on user experience and design. June 16, 2008. The stupidity of rel=nofollow. I am truly baffled by the existence of the rel=nofollow attribute on wordpress comments. Even more so by that fact that it is enabled by default, and can only be disabled by installing a plugin. A human user can see the comment links between one blog and another, so why shouldn’t google? The idea of using rel=nofollow to reduce the amount of comment spam seems totally outdated and not useful in any way. Akismet. Community...
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Wireframes are simply facilitators for discussion « I draw boxes - A blog on user experience & design
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A blog on user experience and design. June 16, 2008. Wireframes are simply facilitators for discussion. The title of this article should really be:. Documentation is simply a facilitator for discussions. And the key point is this: in a web project we’re all (as a team) trying to develop a set of complex. About what this product will be and how it will work. As long as the IA documentation helps us do this in the most effective way, that is all that matters. I have no problem with people creating interact...
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The user experience of the World Cup « I draw boxes - A blog on user experience & design
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A blog on user experience and design. June 18, 2010. The user experience of the World Cup. England v Algeria gets underway in Cape Town. As I write this I’m coming to the end of a great week in South Africa where I’ve been watching the World Cup in Cape Town. It’s occurred to me that the World Cup is so successful because it gets the basics right and is so well organised. Here I’ve decided to share a few of the aspects I think are particularly important. The initial ticket sales take place in an online l...
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Agile 2011 — DARIUS KUMANA
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August 31, 2011. August 31, 2011. August 31, 2011. Getting Beyond 'Good Enough'. A User-Goal based Framework For Agile Delivery. A Few Of The Key Concepts From The Talk:. Setting-Up Projects For Success. Experience Innovation - Learning to Pivot (The Concept of Local Maxima in Design). Helping Teams Get Beyond "Good Enough". History of this talk. Whilst the core of these ideas remain the same, many have since been extended and refined. In particular:. Hypothesis-based LeanUX and Eric Reiss's lean-startup.
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My journey – The Apprentice Path
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Thoughts on how we teach and learn the craft of interaction design. Talks, workshops & events organized. A UX Practitioner’s Reading List. Quick, Useful UI Sketches, GDI edition. Structured UX Design Critique. How did you get to where you are now? Once and a while someone asks how did you get to be where you are now? So, what am I now? I like to make things including digital products, jewelry, costumes, drawings and dinner. I enjoy music and dance. Here are some of the events (and people! Who led me here.
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