By Alexander Baxevanis on 30 January 2012
How many times did you end up sketching the “perfect idea” for a website page or feature, only to realise later on that you’ve missed something important, and adding it means you have to rethink your concept from scratch? Or, when you’ve got a few alternative sketches, you don’t know where to start?
Even when you’ve … Read more about ‘Before you start sketching’
By Alexander Baxevanis on 27 April 2011
After teaching our Axure training course for the last couple of months and talking to participants about the things they want to do with Axure, I’ve discovered a few interesting tips & tricks that I’d like to share with you today:
1. Creating large tables
If you want to create large tables using the Axure table widget … Read more about ‘Axure tips & tricks’
By Alexander Baxevanis on 21 April 2011
There’s a lot of debate around the Alternative Vote (AV) voting system ahead of the 5th of May referendum in the UK. AV may or may not become the way we elect members of the UK parliament, but I think it could definitely be put to good use for eliciting user feedback.
We’ve just completed a … Read more about ‘Using Alternative Vote (AV) in user research’
By Alexander Baxevanis on 22 February 2011
Every time we run our Usability Testing training course, we get asked a lot of questions about testing mobile websites and applications. In terms of designing a usability testing protocol, there’s a lot of commonality between testing on a computer and testing on a mobile. However, one of the issues that frequently comes up is … Read more about ‘Mobile usability testing - in the field or in the lab?’
By Alexander Baxevanis on 4 January 2011
User experience design is a visual craft and for each of our projects we tend to dedicate many square metres of wall space for sketches, diagrams & brainstorming notes. Fortunately, we can stick whatever we want to the walls of our office and most of them are constantly covered with whiteboards, sticky notes, flipcharts and Blu-Tack.
Running meetings … Read more about ‘Do-it-yourself ‘Magic Whiteboard’’