High quality OminiGraffle Stencil collection
09 Jun
Posted by Administrator as prototypes, Tools, Resources, UI Design
With OmniGraffle, you can quickly create high-quality wireframes, flowcharts, and other diagrams. Patrick Crowley has created a site that collects and share a large number of stencils.
Graffletopia makes it easier to find and share OmniGraffle cool stencils.
Information design patterns
09 Jun
Posted by Administrator as Interaction Design, Patterns, UI Design
A master thesis The Form of Facts and Figures is developed by Christian Behrens in the Interface design program at Potsdam University of Applied Sciences.
Its goal is the development of design pattern taxonomy for the field of data visualization and information design.
The project core consists of a collection of about 55 design patterns that describe the functional aspects of graphic components for the display, behavior and user interaction of complex info graphics.
Search Behavior Patterns
09 Jun
Posted by Administrator as Usability, User Experience, Patterns, UI Design
A search engine on an organization’s website or intranet is often built to support an overly narrow model of user behavior, which goes something like this:
- User types in a search
- Search engine gives back matching results
- User reads the results and picks the best one
Simple. Better still, it asks very little of the user interface—only that it provide some way to submit a search, and some list in response.
Indi Young’s Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy With Human Behavior
28 Feb
Posted by Administrator as Books, User Experience
Rosenfeld Media has just released Indi Young’s Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy With Human Behavior. Boxes and Arrows sits down with Indi to talk about:
* The origins and evolution of the mental model
* How the mental model is a way of visualizing nearly any research data
* What shortcuts you can use to get started on a mental model with minimal time investment
* Why “combing” an interview is like riding a bicycle
* How Webvan failed because it ignore the mental model of its customers
Personas and the Role of Design Documentation
28 Feb
Posted by Administrator as Usability, User Experience, UI Design
In User Experience Design circles, personas have become part of our established orthodoxy. And, as with anything orthodox, some people disagree on what personas are and the value they bring to design, and some reject the doctrine entirely.
IxDA Interaction 08 conference - presentation videos
20 Feb
Posted by Administrator as Events, Interaction Design
IxDA ’s first conference Interaction 08 concluded and now all the presentation videos available online.
Interaction 08 will feature two days of inspirational and tactical sessions geared at anyone who practices Interaction Design, as well as a day of pre-conference workshops. We’re planning two tracks of thought provoking discussions during each day, followed by social gatherings on Friday and Saturday evenings.
Putting People First has listed all the videos by speaker’s last name check out the list
Creating prototypes with PDF and Power Point
14 Aug
Posted by Administrator as prototypes, Interaction Design, Tools, UI Design
Here are a couple of interesting articles on Boxes and Arrows
PDF Prototypes: Mistakenly Disregarded and Underutilized
by Kyle Pero Soucy
Creating a clickable PDF to prototype a new design is not a new concept, but it is a valuable tool that is often overlooked and underutilized. Though many designers ascribe false limitations to PDF prototypes, Kyle Pero Soucy puts those fallacies to rest by demonstrating how we can replicate most interactive design elements without investing a lot of time and effort.
Interactive Prototypes with PowerPoint by Maureen Kelly
Many designers use MS PowerPoint to conceptualize wireframes and get buy-in on project direction. Maureen Kelly shows us how to bring those same artifacts to life as an interactive prototype that allows you to validate the design at many levels.
The International Journal of Design is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal devoted to publishing research papers in all fields of design, including industrial design, visual communication design, interface design, animation and game design, architectural design, urban design, and other design related fields. It aims to provide an international forum for the exchange of ideas and findings from researchers across different cultures and encourages research on the impact of cultural factors on design theory and practice. It also seeks to promote the transfer of knowledge between professionals in academia and industry by emphasizing research in which results are of interest or applicable to design practices.
via: Putting People First
http://www.redesignme.org/ is a Flash-based beta site where anyone can post video, photo and text of a product with usability problems. You can also add comments to other people’s postings (down with OPP?), ratings, and most importantly, post your own design solutions in image or video format. The goal of the site is to “promote simplicity in product design” and give “a signal to industry”.
Via: - IDSA
Design Session published an interview with Luke Wroblewski
Luke Wroblewski: The hardest working man in web design
Luke Wroblewski is a Web strategist, designer, and author. He is currently Senior Principal of Product Ideation & Design at Yahoo! Inc. and Principal of LukeW Interface Designs, a product strategy and design consultancy he founded in 1996. Luke has authored a book on Web interface design principles entitled Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability, as well as numerous articles on design methodologies, strategies and applications. He is also frequent presenter on topics related to Web strategy and design, and a former member of the board of directors of the Interaction Design Association. Here, the hardest working man in web design shares his insight into the most important topics in the field today…