“The past” is filled with far more examples of products, innovative thinking, and success stories based on activity-centered research, magic, genius design, and just plain luck than UCD can claim even on its best day. What’s cheap and easy is the idea that we can dissect a chef’s work and call it a recipe. That [...]
Inspired by a new article on A List Apart: Sites that use tagging systems like Magnolia, Flickr, and Digg also provide insight into search behaviors, as each user defined tag illuminates the way in which users label content for retrieval. Simply search for a term you think people might use to find your site, then [...]
These come from a set of wireframes I hadn’t opened for some time. John Johnson Tom Thomas Brenda Bermuda Don Duck Joe Duck Michael Maus Michael Taus Ron McDonald Ron Wonald Joe Jones Marty Markowitz Nancy Nelson Omar Oliver Terrence Thomas Wendell Wu It’s kind of embarrassing how easily I amuse myself.
We finally made Maggie’s bookbinding site live last night, after going through many months (!) of design and redesign. There are a few things that still bug me but I’m pretty satisfied and, more importantly, Maggie is too. It’s the first site I’ve designed from concept to completion in a long time. I was rusty. [...]
There are a couple of interesting discussions occurring on IxDA right now. In one, Leisa Reichelt poses the question guaranteed to get a response: "What software companies are operating successfully — right now — without some kind of UCD/UED in the beginning of their product development cycle?" Jared Spool points out that, well, a lot [...]
Sans Comic Sans is written by Matt Raw in Brooklyn, NY.