Comments on: Five tips to improve your user interface design

By: Daniel Szuc

Daniel Szuc — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 07:11:53 +0000

Thanks Richard and we have a few design workshops coming up and be nice to share some ideas in Munich.

rgds,
Dan

By: Richard Caddick

Richard Caddick — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 09:48:59 +0000

I helped to run a lovely collaborative participatory design meeting last week. We started to rank the stuff we’d been collating.

So the printouts, wireframe sketches and other source material was ordered according to how well it suited what we were trying to achieve.

It was a really good way to take the temperature of our client for any given solution.

By: Corrie Davidson

Corrie Davidson — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:34:14 +0000

@Daniel – oh I like the idea of stashing old magazines in the conference room/design area for fleshing out the wireframes – I imagine it could really give the client a better idea of what and where without spending time in design… plus you can easily move it around.

By: Daniel Szuc

Daniel Szuc — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 02:27:10 +0000

Very cool.

May be nice to take a bunch of magazines old and new and recycled and cut out pictures to represent a UX vision you are aiming for.

Big fan of simple communication pieces to help get the business team on board as to what the design is attempting to achieve beyond the visuals.

rgds,
Dan

By: Richard Caddick

Richard Caddick — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 16:55:56 +0000

Really glad you liked it. Yes we’ve been looking at a number of ways to hold a vision throughout the UX phases and also into design and build. I try and put together another post with some examples, but here are some of the things we’re going:
- Adding design goals to task models
- Adding a simple slide to the begin of a wireframe deck giving vision
- Creating user storyboards (on top of personas) to show how someone would use the device or interface in context
- Using storyboards of wireframes to show the state of the interface as someone makes there way through it

Hope that gives some ideas, and as I say I’ll try and follow it up with a post shortly, as they are all good techniques for carrying the research findings through into the design and focusing the development team.

Richard

By: Daniel Szuc

Daniel Szuc — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:42:19 +0000

Nice :)

As you design is there a way to document “design themes” or “goals” you are looking to achieve as it pertains to the overall UX you are trying to achieve?

rgds,
Dan