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I was left with mixed feelings after reading the latest article related to the latest book about Nokia’s crisis, New Nokia – the manuscript. The Register has made an interview of the author. One of the critiques of the author is to the Contextual Design approach. . . . → Read More: What went wrong in Nokia from the UX perspective? I recently worked on a couple of user experience specifications for mobile applications with Adobe InDesign and Illustrator and, while I found many resources for Omnigraffle, I couldn’t find anything for Illustrator. Most of the stuff I found was for Omnigraffle. I never particulary liked Omnigraffle , so I sticked to Illustrator and Indesign. There are . . . → Read More: Illustrator template for iPhone design Just finished reading the article Gestural Interfaces: A Step Backwards In Usability by Donald Norman and Jakob Nielsen. My immediate gut feeling was that their article didn’t hit the mark this time. Despite my admiration for Donald Normand and sharing a similar (HCI) background with both of . . . → Read More: A ‘Step backwards for Gestural Interfaces’ or for the NN’s Group? What happens when we can carry out user research and testing remotely? Do we need to change the way we work? The answer to this question is: “No“. I recently had a chance of carrying out a research and usability testing consulting for a keyword research service based here in London. This experience led me to many . . . → Read More: A remote change for user research? Tag clouds have never been particularly useful… they give ‘at a glance’ view of the content of a website, but they have very little potential for wayfinding… try even finding the link to your own bookmarks in a Del.icio.us tag cloud – presenting categories and subcategories is more effective. . . . → Read More: User Centred at a Glance I have found an interesting column from Donald Norman about how the role of user research in the software/web development process, though I have to say that I find the premise of his quite contentiious. I agree with him when he says that lengthy, time-consuming field work must take place before the project starts, but even with the ball running and in a limited time frame it is possible to know a lot about the users. . . . → Read More: Why doing user research first is right |
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