April 2009
28 posts
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Balsamiq Mockups: UI Elements for iPhone...
Balsamiq Mockups from iPhone App wire-framing perspective…. Fortunately for any Experience Designer who religiously follow the wireframes ideas, related to websites or software, targeting any platform: mobile or desktop, is blessing in disguise, yes I used the word disguise, because I noticed whenever someone talk about Balsamiq Mockups they usually love to talk about Website Wireframing...
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Designing for Touch Screens and Interactive...
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I attended Dan Saffer and Bill DeRouchey’s workshop at Interaction ’09 titled Designing for Touch Screens and Interactive Gestures. While a lot of good information was communicated (Did you know that the largest portion of the brain is devoted to your mouth, while the second largest controls your hands?), much of it was old hat for me. I’ve been designing UIs for tablet PCs with...
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Teaching Everything
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Leslie Jensen-Inman published an excellent article on A List Apart in January titled Elevate Web Design at the University Level. She discusses the fact that universities aren’t able to keep pace with web technologies and that their graduates are not prepared by the time they graduate. It isn’t an empty claim—she interviewed thirty-two web design leaders about the issue. In the...
The abilities needed in order to be an Interaction...
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Carl Alviani writes in his post on Creative Seeds titled Five things Interaction Design probably isn’t:
I went to Interaction09 in Vancouver with an intense personal mission to nail down a clear definition of Interaction Designer, and what abilities are needed in order to be one. Almost every time I asked (and I asked a lot of times), the answer was “I have no idea.”
Well, Carl, I’m...
