Archive for the ‘Design Practice’ Category
Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
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You hear alot about engagement, and not just in the UX community.
How do you engage your website users? What exactly constitutes the different parts of a website’s content that will attract people and make the website an enjoyable experience for them and a profitable one for your business?
In the first of seven parts, I’ll take a look at what goes into creating an engaged website audience and an optimised site.
Continue reading “Engagement and optimisation: Success Metrics” » |
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Tags: Design Strategy, Enagement, Optimisation, Persuasion Architecture, Persuasive design, SEO, Usability, User paths, Web analytics, Web Metrics
Posted in Engagement, Optimisation, Persuasive design, SEO, Usability, User Experience, User paths, Web Analytics, Web Metrics | 4 Comments »
Sunday, November 30th, 2008
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I read a post recently that illustrated how concept models are rarely used in the right way and are often misunderstood. Are they really worth doing at all?
Now seems a good time to expand on the tool that Dan Brown has popularised through his book Communicating Design. Not as simply a stand alone tool but one that can provide a blueprint for giving solid ROI on design, analytics and testing.
Continue reading “Holistic concept models: an ROI blueprint” » |
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Tags: Agile, Collaboration, Concept Models, Design Practice, Diagrams, Experience Design, Information Architecture, Information Design, Mental Models, Mind Maps, Taxonomy, user, User Centred Design, Web Metrics, Wireframes
Posted in Agile, Collaboration, Concept Models, Design Practice, Diagrams, Experience Design, Information Architecture, Mental Models, Mind Maps, Taxonomy, User Centred Design, User Experience, Web Metrics, Wireframes | 4 Comments »
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
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A big surprise when attending the EPIC 2008 conference was the lack of talk around the next stages beyond ethnographic research. The academic stance was accompanied by representatives of large corporations, though it felt mainly a concentration on the methods and findings of ethnographic praxis. Continue reading “EPIC 2008 (IN)VISIBILITY” » |
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Tags: Collaboration, Company Culture, UCD, Usability, User Centred Design
Posted in About, Conference reviews, Events, Reviews, Usability | 2 Comments »
Saturday, October 18th, 2008
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When you organise content on a web site, how can you be confident its relevant and clear for your users? The following walk-through tells of how you can ensure you build a site with users’ interests at heart.
What is a taxonomy?
The term ‘taxonomy’ is a bit of a misnomer, having its origins in Biological study denoting sub-species within a species classification. However, in the business sense of the word, taxonomies can encompass a whole range of different elements that, broadly speaking, are ways of classifying content under categories recognised by a user group.
Continue reading “Creating user centred taxonomies” » |
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Tags: Taxonomy, taxonomy design, Taxonomy Management, Teragram, User Centred Design
Posted in Collaboration, Concept Models, Design Practice, Information Architecture, Metadata, Personas, Taxonomy, Taxonomy Management, User Centred Design, User Experience, User stories, Wireframes | 1 Comment »
Saturday, October 11th, 2008
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Synthesis of research, business culture and product goals ensures a UX team sits in the middle of a web development process. However the team can benefit by not being solely project focused…
User experience is heavily associated with brand experience and as technology becomes less visible and more pervasive, the two elements will converge into one. User experience adds substance to the brand experience – experience design defines the brand.
Continue reading “Extending the experience” »
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Tags: Company Culture, Design Practice, User Experience
Posted in Company Culture, Design Practice, IA emergence, Information Architecture, User Centred Design, User Experience | No Comments »
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
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Published here, the first in a two-part article I have written about the mechanics of creating user centred taxonomies. |
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Tags: Information Architecture, Taxonomy, taxonomy design, UCD, User Centred Design
Posted in Design Practice, Information Architecture, Taxonomy, UCD | No Comments »
Monday, July 14th, 2008
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This post started from the ideas of a two-part post written last year by Seth Gottlieb & Brice Dunwoodie. It made me think about a list of tools and techniques that content editors could use whilst editing in a collaborative environment. The post is a point of reference for those involved in the daily running and development of sites that are continually evolving.
Continue reading “Tools and techniques for managing website evolution” » |
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Tags: Content Management, Findability, Information Architecture, Metadata, UCD, Usability, User Centred Design, User Experience
Posted in Content Management, Design Practice, Findability, Information Architecture, Metadata, UCD, Usability, User Centred Design, User Experience | No Comments »
Thursday, June 26th, 2008
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I recently presented at a conference on the humble wireframe and thought it would be a good idea to run through some key points. I have also noted that some feel the wireframe is dead, though if anything its more alive now than ever. Pay heed to 37 signal’s take on the subject…
If a wireframe document is destined to stop and never directly become the actual design, don’t bother doing it. If the wireframe starts as a wireframe and then morphs into the actual design, go for it.
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Tags: Agile, Design Practice, Design Strategy, User Centred Design, Wireframes
Posted in Agile, Design Tools, User Centred Design, Wireframes | 50 Comments »