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User experience design is the discipline of creating a useful and usable Web site or application--one that's easily navigated and meets the needs of both the site owner and its users. But there's a lot more to successful UX design than knowing the la ...

Resource - Carolyn Chandler, Russ Unger - December 31, 1969 - 0 comments

You can improve your sketching and paper prototyping abilities by adopting some of the methods used by Leonardo da Vinci in his sketchbooks. Leonardo was a prolific sketcher , filling his journals with over 13,000 pages of notes and drawings. The ...

Article - Brian Sullivan - December 07, 2011 - 9 comments

We are often asked how and when Design Studio should be used in a startup or enterprise whose product team embraces agile. We hope this article answers some questions about how to effectively use Design Studio (as well as variations on it), and to avoid ...

Article - Will Evans, Jeff Gothelf - November 08, 2011 - 1 comment

This article is part two of the series that began with Introduction to Design Studio Methodology . While part one explained the why and what of Design Studio, this article deals with the logistics and mechanics. I highly recommend you read the ar ...

Article - Will Evans - September 29, 2011 - 2 comments

I first learned the Design Studio methodology from Todd Zaki Warfel , founder of Message First and perhaps one of the best designers I’ve been fortunate enough to learn from. The concept originated in architecture and industrial design schools, a ...

Article - Will Evans - August 24, 2011 - 7 comments

Title 2:  Three Intrinsic Attributes of Creativity There’s been some talk lately about creativity, creative advantage, or, as Bruce Nussbaum puts it, Creative Intellig ...

Article - Mark Baskinger - July 05, 2011 - 6 comments

In many industries, prototyping is an effective way of modeling a system to test it and gather feedback from engineers, other designers, stakeholders and, most importantly, end users. Practitioners in the UX field are familiar with prototyping w ...

Article - Diego Pulido - April 12, 2011 - 15 comments

The design team at Yahoo! Mail just launched a beta version of their redesign for 273 million worldwide users—more users than Gmail and Hotmail combined. Start-to-launch, they completed the redesign the Yahoo! Mail web app and native ...

Article - Beth Koloski - November 12, 2010 - 0 comments

One of the points I make in So You Want To Be A Designer is that the hardest part of software isn’t the process of creating software, it’s changing culture and influencing organizations. One of the strongest tools we have our repertoire in convincin ...

Article - Aza Raskin - November 16, 2010 - 3 comments

Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can’t invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes. ...

Article - Will Evans - June 24, 2010 - 9 comments