February, 2009

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Some basic rules for napkin-sketching

Xplaner

An introduction to some basic principles for making better napkin-sketches. Did you like this? If so, please consider buying me a coffee! Tags: workliteracy wom ways of meaning waysofmeaning drawing sketching napkin-sketching napkin Ways of meaning video.

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Bringing Holistic Awareness to Your Design

Boxes and Arrows

Gone, thankfully, are the days when the user experience and the user interface were an afterthought in the website design process, to be added on when programming was nearing completion. As our profession has increasingly gained importance, it also become increasingly specialized: information design, user experience design, interaction design, user research, persona development, ethnographic user research, usability testing—the list goes on and on.

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Photos for interaction

Boxes and Arrows

When developing user interfaces, designers increasingly use custom graphical elements. As the web browser becomes basic technology for software interfaces, more and more elements derived from graphic and web design replace the traditional desktop approaches to the concrete design of human-computer interfaces. In the near future, this development will become even more relevant.