“The quality of your UX shows how much your respect or disrespect your customers”
Alexis Ohanian - co-founder of Reddit, Hipmunk and Breadpig
Fantasy Interactive Case Studies
Fi’s case studies are clearly in a league of their own to show off their client work. As a potential client you gain insight to their entire process and strategy, but as a designer the case studies are valuable tools in learning how to communicate design strategy with a client.
If you are a designer or a small design studio, this is the level of detail that you need to pour into every project to move beyond your tired hourly-based billing into the promise land of value based pricing. Charging by the hour is for chumps.
See the whole Broadway.com iPad App case study as well as Redbull TV, HTC Global, and History Channel’s Civil War 150.
Basecamp UI Preview
37signals have come up with some very unique although simple user experience patterns that should make using Basecamp easier than ever. Jump into the video at 3 minutes to see a demonstration of how they are allowing for you to easily navigate into a project.
Looks pretty awesome. That’s some smart “text as an interface” UI.
Preview of the new Basecamp UI (by 37signals)
iOS 5 GUI PSD (iPhone 4S)
Teehan+Lax just updated their iPhone mockup PSD to include all the new subtle design changes and details introduced in this week’s iOS 5. Overall not a lot has changed, but you can certainly tell that Apple spent a lot of time polishing and perfecting the details.
Life, Below 600px
I think it’s becoming clear to everyone—except those certain clients stuck in 2002—the fold no longer exists or is relevant. If you’re not convinced read this article by Paddy Donnelly who makes the case that a build up to “the prize” at the bottom of a page is more effective than cramming the top of the page with the important stuff and filling the bottom with junk.
Like cake, the fold is a lie.
ILUVUXDESIGN Part II
“Hail to all the great UX designers of the world!” Part II follows up the first ILUVUXDESIGN animation explaining exactly what a UX designer does.
Grab some wallpapers and a teeshirt at ILUVUXDESIGN.com
ILUVUXDESIGN
Who doesn’t love a good UX design, and who doesn’t get totally frustrated with bad experience design.
Hail to all the great UX designers of the world. Spread the love for UX design!!!
Fun animation explaining what a UX designer does—obsessed with changing the world one screen at a time.
Found on Surfstation
Little Big Details
New Tumblr blog showcasing an inspirational collection of small UX details that make a huge impact.
Via @seth_weisfeld & @swissmiss
“If you emerge from university today with a web design degree, chances are rather slim that you’re employable as a user experience (UX) or web designer. Maybe you learned a lot of stuff; it’s just probably the wrong stuff. Congratulations, you’ve been defrauded. Hope it didn’t cost you or your parents too much.”
The UX Design Education Scam
A well written article by Andy Rutledge on the disservice universities and higher educations are doing to students going into user experience or web-related design. I would much rather hire someone self-taught and motivated to learn over someone who spent years learning out-dated methods and technology.
This article addresses the problem head-on, and I could not agree more. Read The UX Design Education Scam.
Using Keynote to Create Wireframes Clients will Understand
In the past I have worked with UX professionals that have an incredible grasp on user experience, but they present their work in a highly technical manner that makes it difficult for clients to digest. When we create wireframes for clients at New Ezra the three most important factors are to design beautifully polished UX, illustrate high level functional, and rapidly mock-up the wireframes so that we can move forward into execution.
Travis Isaacs put together a presentation that takes you through his workflow of wireframing in Keynote. This presentation not only covers tips on how to use Keynote as a rapid and effective wireframing tool, but it also goes into specifics on how to effectively communicate to the client through wireframes.
If you’re interested in giving Keynote a try for wireframing make sure you check out Travis’ Keynote Wireframe Kit - http://keynotekungfu.com/
Mozilla Labs - Social Browser Concepts
Designer and open web advocate Chris Messina worked with Mozilla Labs to created a series of interface designs for a re-imagined, social focused browser. The ideas presented were based on the following emerging conditions:
- online account and data portability
- ubiquitous networked access
- decreasing cost of advanced computing devices
In addition to the great ideas about the future of the browser, the set of designs posted to Flickr are rich with unique user experience concepts. Read more about the project on Chris Messina’s blog.
Reblogged from David Kaneda
