User Experience, Usability and Design links for August 6th
Aug 06
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I bookmark a lot of pages and sites which I find interesting, inspirational and informative every day! I’d like to share some of them with you here. In general they are about user experience, usability, UCD, accessbility and design. In general, but not always!!
- Reductionism in Web Design
It’s important to define what reductionism is in the context of web design. While ideas towards reductionism vary depending on who you ask, a simple definition is that reductionist methods boil down complex things to simpler things, which might include modularizing the system into more digestible components; all of this while avoiding losses in value (fidelity) and usefulness. - The Web Strategy Pyramid: A Well-balanced Web Strategy
To deliver a site that gives users the experience they are looking for, we need to set it upon a solid foundation of content, usable navigation, and strong SEO practices. - Beyond the Web Experience | Blog | Nick Finck | UX/IA Pro, Speaker, and Community Cultivator.
I find it interesting that whenever I talk about experience design people assume I am talking about web based experiences only. An experience is the holistic perspective, everything from experiencing interfaces, websites, physical interfaces, the environment, even the smells and tastes. Within a single day I came across three seemingly un-related topics that were all tied into user experience.. or perhaps more accurately, the human experience. - Designing with Paper Prototyping | UX Booth
Prototyping is key to any successful design. Paper prototyping is usually the first step, but does it fit into a world where mobile devices are king? Yes, but not using the conventional method. Combine the physicality of the device and the power of paper prototyping and you have a solution that’s fit for the new era of computing. - Defining Design – Surface vs. Substance | Front to back
What is design? Most people will answer that question by pointing to a designed object – the iPhone, for example. Now that’s good design! The Mini Cooper. London’s famous map of the Tube. Anything ever built by Norman Foster. That’s design, right? - A List Apart: Articles: Flexible Fuel: Educating the Client on IA
Information architecture (IA) means so much to our projects, from setting requirements to establishing the baseline layout for our design and development teams. But what does it mean to your clients? Do they see the value in IA? What happens when they change their minds? Can IA help manage the change control process? More than ever, we must ensure that our clients find value in and embrace IA—and it’s is our job to educate them. - Links : Quantitative Research Methods and Statistics – Methodspace – home of the Research Methods community
Please do feel free to suggest other related (and unrelated ones)!
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