Event - Kundenfrühstück bei TechTalk

Hi,

today in german:

Kundenfrühstück bei TechTalk am 23.4.2009 um 9:00 zum Thema:

"Usability meets Development"
Wie schafft man es den Spagat zwischen Development und Usability optimal zu spannen?
Erfahren Sie auch, wie die Qualität/Userexperience von Applikationen für den Endanwender durch die Zusammenarbeit von Programmierung und Design verbessert werden kann.

Ich würde mich freuen wenn möglichst viele Interessierte dabei wären.

Br, Claudia

Inspiration needed?

Hi,

today I want to share some interesting links:

• Interaction Designers - Flickr Group
• Blogarticle "20 cool interaction design concepts"

And a great website is the "Wall of Deliverables". The idea was born at the IA Summit 2008 in Miami and the aim of the site is to share examples of deliverables.

Have fun, br Claudia

MIX09, Surface & Userability Podcast (again)

Hi,

today I want to recommend to view the following session videos of the MIX09. Of course the Keynote of Bill Buxton (recommended by michbex) and i was really fascinated by SketchFlow (presented by Christian Schorman - our judge @ Imagine Cup 08) and I'm looking forward to try it out. SketchFlow is currently not included in the Blend3 Preview. This is a screenshot of the SketchFlowPlayer:

Microsoft Surface Stove

A nice april fool by the Silverlight team is the Surface Stove.

20 years, No Improvement?

And one interesting podcast with Scott Berkun is now available at the Userability podcast answering the following question:

Don Norman’s seminal, The Design of Everyday Things, is approaching it’s 20th year in print. It explained why so many basic things in life are poorly designed and hard to use, such as pull handles on doors that need to be pushed. Since the world has been aware of these design flaws for two decades, why are so many basic usability failures still around?

Have fun,

br Claudia

Usability & UX Podcasts

Hi,

today I want to share some very interesting podcasts related to the Usability and UX topic.

The first podcast is the Adaptive Path Podcast. (iTunesStore) The podcast is a mix between speaks at conferences and interviews with UI/UX/Usability-Experts. The podcast also provides the best presentations from the UX Week Events and the MX.

Boxes and Arrows Podcast (iTunesStore): A lot of interviews are available with professionals from the field of Information Architecture, Interaction Design and User Experience.

UIE Brain Sparks (iTuneStore) : Very interesting podcasts - consisting of SpoolCasts (General infos, interviews and virtual seminars) and Userability Podcasts (A caller asks a UX question and Jared Spool and Robert Hoekman, Jr. try to answer it).

Have fun,
Br Claudia

Articles about UX in an agile environment

Hi,

today I want to share with you some interesting articles about the UX work in an agile environment.

The first 2 articles about the "12 best pratices for UX in an agile environment" by Jeff Patton (agileproductdesign.com) are available here:
12 best practices - Part 1
12 best practices - Part 2

(Same article with more pictures you can find here)

And i also want to recommend a second article by Jeff Patton discussing the question "Is user experience relevant where you work?".

Br, Claudia

Designing Interfaces (Jenifer Tidwell)

Hi,

last weekend I read the next book - Jenifer Tidwells "Designing Interfaces". In the post about Design Patterns I already mentioned the related website.

For me the book doesn't contain new information. It's a nice compendium of the main patterns and I think the book could be helpful if you want to find a solution for a specific problem.

If you don't know much about the design patterns than you should read the book. The various patterns are really well explained and visualized with good examples.

Br Claudia

PS: @Techtalker - This book is available at the foyer.

The back of the napkin

Hi,

today I want recommend you a book about solving problems and selling ideas with pictures. "The Back of the Napkin" by Dan Roam describes a new way of thinking - the visual thinking. On the one hand the book concentrates on possible methods to solve problems with visual thinking on the other hand the book also describes how the solutions can be presented to the audience.
(@Techtalker: The book is available in the foyer @ TTV)

At the MIX 08 conference Dan Roam talked about it and the video is available online. The basics of the book are covered in this workshop.

The visualization of the tools/methods provided in the book are also available on the website.

If somebody used this techniques to solve or present a problem it would be nice to hear something about your experiences.

Br, Claudia