A hot topic in the mobile user experience world right now is - will Nokia win back a larger share of the smartphone market with ‘Glanceable Design’?
I recently read an interesting interview in the Guardian with Nokia’s VP of design Marko Ahtisaari.
Nokia had been a front-runner in innovative mobile design for so many years, it … Read more about ‘‘Glanceable design’ - a great user experience innovation?’
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’
Since the iPad was launched, I’ve been curious how this device would be adopted as a working tool by the UX community. Apart from the many project management, mind mapping and sketching apps, there are also a few diagramming apps available for the iPad that could help with creating wireframes and flow charts.
OmniGraffle is one … Read more about ‘iPads in the UX community’
Writing (words), sketching (pictures) and making (things), the activities of design are all manifestations of the same thing. On the surface of it, they all involve a translation of thoughts into something tangible. They are forms of communication, but I would argue that they also constitute actual thinking and are a useful form of thinking.
Take … Read more about ‘Just doing it – why writing, sketching and making are useful forms of thinking’
I was reading an article the other day that talked about how Ikea were changing the way their book shelves are designed in a pre-emptive stance or maybe in reaction to the growing trend of e-books and the premise that books aren’t or wont be what people want to store in books shelves any more.
As … Read more about ‘Do designs respond to customer needs or push changes in behaviour?’
