Evolutionary Design – Part 2 – Performance-Driven Design
Posted in IA/UX on Apr 9th, 2009 No Comments »
A design based on performance depends on the audience and the measures of success used. How a design performs determines how it evolves.
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Evolutionary Design – Part 1 – Evolution and Design
Posted in IA/UX on Mar 31st, 2009 No Comments »
If we want to create user experiences that have a better chance of surviving the chaos of the market, it may help to adopt evolutionary principles in our design process.
Darwin does design: measuring & optimizing the user experience
Posted in IA/UX on Mar 26th, 2009 No Comments »
Information Architecture Summit 2009 presentation by Aaron Louie and Rachel Elkington: “Darwin Does Design: Measuring & Optimizing the User Experience”
User Experience to-do list
Posted in IA/UX on Mar 25th, 2009 No Comments »
Here’s my list of things we in UX will need to do to remain relevant – and alive – in this economy:
Stop thinking about designing the perfect system. Perfection is expensive, illusory, and unattainable. Perfection will get you laid off. Good-enough will allow you to survive until the next round.
Design sustainable systems. Create revenue, efficiency, [...]
A permaculture approach to social media
Posted in IA/UX on Jul 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
Treat your site like a hyper-local, self-sustainable, fertile permaculture.
InfoCamp article in the ASIS&T Bulletin
Posted in IA/UX on May 29th, 2008 No Comments »
I wrote an article about InfoCamp 2007 for the June/July ‘08 issue of the ASIS&T Bulletin. It tells the story of how we came up with the idea, some of the lessons we learned, and our plans for the future.
We tried to apply user-centered design principles to our conference planning process — hopefully, that message [...]
Interactive Strategy
Posted in IA/UX on May 14th, 2008 No Comments »
New blog post about strategy and interaction design over at the ZAAZ Blogs.
Learning from sustainable garden design
Posted in IA/UX on Apr 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
My wife and I are in the process of re-designing our yard, since we need to take care of some urgent drainage and landscaping issues. Last night, we spent the entire evening poring over garden design books, most notably Ann Lovejoy’s Organic Garden Design School and Jacke & Toensmeier’s Edible Forest Gardens.
I was struck by [...]
The Blended Agenda Matrix
Posted in IA/UX on Apr 16th, 2008 No Comments »
At the 2008 IA Summit in Miami this last weekend, I and 40 other user experience practitioners showcased their work on the first annual Wall Of Deliverables. Conference attendees then voted on the entries. The deliverable I submitted, ZAAZ’s Blended Agenda Matrix, won 2nd place!
I’ve posted a blog entry about the Blended Agenda Matrix and [...]
The myth of the noble user
Posted in IA/UX on Apr 11th, 2008 No Comments »
Every time I venture into the wide world beyond my daily haunts, I encounter people that, to put it bluntly, annoy the hell out of me. You know them: the “other” people, the ones who litter, talk on their cellphones while driving, drive atmosphere-polluting behemoths, snore loudly in airplanes on red-eye flights, actually enjoy watching [...]