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Theresa Neil on Designing Web Interfaces

Theresa Neil, author of Designing Web Interfaces, recently presented these slides at a conference in Malmo, Sweden. Seems like every other conference is located in Malmo, strange. Check out Theresa’s blog for a good focused look into the world of prototyping tools. Her favorite tool is Balsamiq Mockups, which is indeed a useful tool. (translate)

Qualities of Information Design

David McCandless over at the fantastic blog Information Is Beautiful provides this visual attempt at defining the qualities of good information design. (translate)

10 Design Principles of Dieter Rams

I was recently reminded of these. It’s good to always keep them in mind.› Good design is innovative› Good design makes a product useful› Good design is aesthetic› Good design helps us to understand a product› Good design is unobtrusive› Good design is honest› Good design is durable› Good design is consequent to the last [...] (translate)

Jobs on User Experience

From Fortune’s article summarizing why Steve Jobs is the CEO of the decade: For those paying attention after Jobs’ return, the CEO was telegraphing Apple’s trajectory. “I would rather compete with Sony (SNE) than compete in another product category with Microsoft,” he told Time in early 2002. “We’re the only company that owns the whole widget [...] (translate)

Adobe’s Approach to Service Design

A while back I started writing a multi-part series on Adobe’s approach to designing services. Well, my life became too busy to complete the series, but I captured a summary of my reflections in an article, originally posted on the INSPIRE website. Here’s the article, in its entirety. I’m interested in your observations on it. — As [...] (translate)

Nielsen on Agile & UX

Jakob Nielsen’s latest recommendations on Agile and UX parrot his originals: The two main recommendations for ensuring good usability in Agile projects remain the same as in our original research: Separate design and development, and have the user interface team progress one step ahead of the implementation team. That way, when it comes time to build something, [...] (translate)

iPhone is the Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer

Now that Jojo and I have a newborn beautiful baby, I’ve become interested in the theory and practice of early childhood education. One unexpected discovery that has amazed me is how the intellectual needs of a growing child change nearly weekly. Infant minds are like sponges, in large part because they start relatively empty, and [...] (translate)

NYTimes.com Innovation Portfolio

In my opinion, the NYTimes.com provides some of the best interactive (and static) infographics around. The designs are usable, readable, and beautiful, and they communicates the right information in the right way. In other words, their designs seem to be greatly aligned with the principles espoused by Steven Few, one of my favorite visual thinkers. The [...] (translate)

Design at BMW

A fitting follow up my last post on Ford’s use of personas - here’s an interview of Adrian Hooydonk, BMW’s head of design, by Tyler Brule, the editor-in-cheif of Monocle.It’s interesting to note that BMW’s focus is on designing in response to mega-trends, and the idea of trust in the designer’s intuition. In other words, [...] (translate)

Personas and Ford

This great article in the NYTimes highlights Ford’s use of customer “archetypes” in car design. Archetypes and personas are fundamental to user-centerted design, and it’s great to see that they are used in such a critical way throughout Ford’s design process.Perhaps Ford’s focus on it’s customer’s usage of and emotional connection to the vehicle have [...] (translate)

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