Posts Tagged ‘Interface Design’
Sunday, January 25th, 2009
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Analog In, Digital Out: Brendan Dawes on Interaction Design
There have been several events where one speaker really shone out from the rest, and this alongside the more celebrated thought leaders in the UX field. His delivery can best be described as entertaining, humorous story-telling. As the title of the post suggests, he has a different approach to illustrate the importance of interaction design.
His book has been out since 2006 but despite the arrival of the iPhone and Wii his observations are just as important today. Brendan Dawes’ book, ‘Analog In, Digital Out‘ is an important work to this domain for many reasons.
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Tags: Brendan Dawes, Design Practice, Interaction Design, Interface Design, User Experience, ux
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
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Leah Buley – How to be a UX team of one
If there was an award for the most enthusiastic and passionate speaker I think Leah Buley would take it.Her presentation, How to be a UX team of one was a real hit, at the recent IA Summit in Miami. Anything with cartoons immediately gets my vote.
It was engaging and inspirational with the hand drawn elements serving to convey the speaker’s personality and it was a refreshing change to the usual slides. (more…) |
Tags: Design Practice, IA Summit 2008, Information Design, Interface Design, UCD, Usability
Posted in Conference reviews, Design Practice, IA Summit 2008, Information Design, Interface Design, Reviews, Speakers, UCD, Usability, User Experience | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
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All this talk of recession and the web is currently awash with generosity. After my favourable words about the BBC who gave us a view of their new design language, Yahoo! have decided to go one better and provide their entire pattern library and developer tools for free.
Very kind and of course there is a monetary side to it but the new site is live here and during the day long workshop they gave at the IA Summit 2008 the complete set was given away on a memory key.
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Tags: Agile, Christian Crumlish, design pattern library, Erin Malone, IA Summit 2008, Interaction Design, Interface Design, Lucas Pettinati, Yahoo pattern library
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
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James Kalbach succeeds in bringing together the fundamental components that determine great, and not-so-great, user interfaces. The UI itself must always be respected and the author illustrates exactly why in the journey the book takes us on.
What the book does is show how this can be achieved, from the past, notably from the present and into the future. The illustrations are in colour (critically important for any design book) and give clarity to the text’s important insights. (more…) |
Tags: Human Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Interface Design, James Kalbach, Usability, Web design book review
Posted in Book reviews, Books, Design Practice, Human Computer Interaction, Information Architecture, Information Design, Interaction Design, Interface Design, Reviews, Usability | No Comments »
