…other members of the team." Jeff Gothelf, How To Build an Agile UX Team
( Jeff has an amazing series over on Smashing Magazine on How To Build an Agile UX Team which was incredibly helpful when researching this presentation. Anyone hoping to learn more about the subject should definitely check it out .)
The shift from experience design as a stand-alone discipline to an integrated part of any project requires more than just a change in methodology. Designers…
…online. Too many devices. Too many variables. Delivering a finished "design" or " UX specs" to a client isn't realistic as the work needs to continually evolve based on customer insights and analytics. Staying stuck in the mindset of a traditional design-services business won't work anymore.
What this means for ZURB:
We have the opportunity to provide top notch product design services on top of our Foundation framework — while also continuing …
…BubbleConf: One day of ideas and action with the most vocal minds from tech, design, UX and business.
On october 21st 2012, we had the pleasure of co-organizing BubbleConf with our friends from Nedap and Teixido : the very first conference in Amsterdam aimed at designers, developers and entrepreneurs that was actually affordable for (bootstrapped) startups to attend [1] . We were blown away by the positive reception for our very first conference: 400 people …
- giant robots smashing into other giant robots: Design with a sip of Bourbon
- Lee Munroe: 10 Websites Every Web Designer Should Know About
- Ruby on Rails Podcast: Dribbble: Dan Cederholm and Rich Thornett - Ruby on Rails Podcast
- Scout ~ The Blog: Our DIY Homepage Process
- Zach Inglis: How To Get Great Opinion On Your Design
…its automatic currency conversion to BTC, so I fixed that with a tiny mini-app too, again not much more than a shell script. And then I used that shell script mini-app to avoid Apple UX fail, and made an absurd profit percentage as a side effect.
Shell script all the things . The web is full of broken. Fixing even the little problems can accidentally net you huge profits.
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #830
- coderrr: Simplified Summary of Microsoft Research's Bitcoin Paper on Incentivizing Transaction Propagation
- Stake Ventures Inc.: OpenTransact the payment standard where everything is out of scope
- High Scalability: Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For March 8, 2013
- mir.aculo.us: 5 rules to sell thousands of copies of your ebook
- Derek Powazek: links for 2010-06-18
…problem, make life more convenient for the user and do exactly what it says it's going to do. Strong UX (user experience) is incredibly important but your users won't stick around if there isn't a tangible benefit to using your app. Following platform conventions is key for getting people into the habit of using your app - if they can navigate around your app the same way they navigate around their phone, it's instantly clear what they are supposed to do and why.
TWG is …
…follows is an excerpt from Chapter 4 ( Collaborative Design) of Lean UX: Applying lean principles to improve user experience by Jeff Gothelf and Josh Seiden
The most effective way I've found to rally a team around a design direction is through collaboration. Over the long haul, collaboration yields bet- ter results than hero-based design (the practice of calling in a designer or design team to drop in, come up with something beautiful, and take off to rescue the next project). …
- » Product Launch Blog: Lean + UX + Agile
- Global Nerdy: Qixing's Big Move
- Kalzumeus Software: I Redesigned My Software. Users: Thrilled. Conversion Rates: Up. Sales: Unchanged.
- ZURB: Podcast of Irene Au's Talk on How Google Creates Products
- Labnotes: Rounded Corners 327 - Tick tock
- ronin coder: Mobile Roundup
People who love mobile, the Web, open source, UX, design, programming, startups, or nerdy atmospheres: this is for you. At this unconference you can lead a discussion with like-minded people, give a talk to fascinated listeners, or make your rounds along the hallway track.
The unconference is what you make of it. Want a talk about Android UIs? Sign up. An armchair linguist? Throw your name on the whiteboard. Want to hack sweet code in the hallway while soaking up the buzz of energy? …
- braindump: Going cold turkey on physical media
- ZURB: Why Mark Zuckerberg Is Absolutely Right About HTML5
- Global Nerdy: Mobile Developer News Roundup: iOS Simulator Tips and Tricks, iOS SDK for Web Designers and Who Uses Mobile Devices and QR Codes
- New Relic: December Partner Spotlight: News from AWS, Pantheon, ActiveState and More
- Axon Flux // A Ruby on Rails Blog: Google's 174 web fonts in one convenient downloadable tarball for your Photoshopping enjoyment
- Scout ~ The Blog: Kestrel in Production at Papertrail
…project is visual interface or graphic design only, then that's probably ok. But if you're a UX, interaction, lead and/or only designer working on a project, then you play a bigger role.
Sketching enables you to brainstorm, explore multiple ideas, define flows, communicate with team members all why being quick and cheap.
Prototyping enables you to get out of the building quicker, talk to users, validate assumptions, ensure expectations are meeting stakeholder needs, while spending …
- DevInterface Blog: Top 10 Firefox addons for web developers
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: The Pixel Brigade Has Arrived
- Hobo Blog: Super-easy cross-browser gradient backgrounds
- Global Nerdy: Dear Microsoft: Just Update My Photo and We'll Be Cool
- The Usware Blog - Django Web Development: CSS Frameworks
- Alex MacCaw: YMockup - UI Mockups in CSS and HTML
The following is a draft chapter for the upcoming "The Performance of Open Source Applications" ( POSA), a sequel to The Architecture of Open Source Applications . POSA is a collection of essays about performance optimization, designing for performance, managing performance as part of a development process, and more. The book will be published in Spring 2013 under a Creative Commons license with royalties going to Amnesty International.
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- Global Nerdy: IE9's Hardware-Accelerated Canvas in Action
- till's blog: Google Chrome: useful extensions for developers
- Transcending Frontiers: Why you need to care about web browsers
- Momoro Machine: access control allow origin localhost 3000
- New Relic: [INFOGRAPHIC] Browser Wars: What is the fastest web experience? End User Data from New Relic
- JJinuxLand: Documentation Sucks, Video Games Rule!
…great mobile app. The study found that 85.6% of enterprise founders believe that UX matters just as much in B2E/B2B apps as B2C . Beyond user experience, great holistic product design is crucial.
Appcelerator analyzed their findings as such: This heralds the fact that we now live in a user-experience-centric world where beauty, functionality, and user delight triumph, whether for mobilizing internal enterprise processes or for transforming consumer relationships.
Ultimately, …
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- Rowan Hick: ZBar vs RedLaser Barcode scanning
- New Relic: Join us as our guest at the #GenMobile party at Google I/O (San Francisco 2012)
- There's no place like ::1: New Titanium Module: Sincerely
- Global Nerdy: Salmagundi for December 20, 2011
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: Engine Yard Launches Platform Services Program with Over 40 Partners