Just finished reading through Luke W.’s great resource on web form design, Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks. It’s a great overview, deep dive, and a must read for any UX/Web DesignerFront End Developer who’s interested in serving the user and building in quality efficiencies into a web form experience. I loved the thoroughness, [...]
Jared’s thoughts on Patterns and Frameworks. Components, Patterns, and Frameworks! Oh My! He gives a good overview of the use and value, particularly for smaller teams, to establish libraries of interface patterns, components for reusable code, and frameworks. Setting the foundation of a solution on previous uses allows the designer/team to then customize and to [...]
I’ve started to read through the Designing Web Interfaces book and find it interesting and validating – a good touch point for reference when talking to or sharing patterns and uses with other people. The main pattern “values”: Make it direct Keep it lightweight Stay on the page Provide invitations Use transitions React immediately I [...]
I’ve been wrestling with the use of XD (Experience Design) within our organization instead of the term UX (User Experience Design, or UXD). For some reason the differences seem significant to me and I’m talking a bit of time here to dig into why that might be. The context of my inquiry and work is [...]
I posted a comment on RJ Owen’s question and post in December and have been tracking the comments. A great thread and thought to post my comment here and linkback to the InsideRIA post from RJ: http://www.insideria.com/2008/12/what-makes-a-user-experience-e.html My Comment: RJ_ Great primer for UX input and defining, especially in the this context of RIA’s. Your [...]