Prototype, Test, Rinse & repeat
The value of iteration. Switched-on digital agencies understand the value of user testing with early stage website mockups; ironing out sticking points and identifying opportunities to improve interaction design early, before committing to code. During a day of back-to-back user interviews, ‘quick wins’, like changing a navigation item can be made in seconds and validated [...]
UX in the physical world
My latest project allows me to work on some interactions with a different kind of digital – gripping fingers and thumbs, … it’s taking me back to my surfboard building days. It’s with a kiwi company developing a new type of mouse. I’m using UX methods to help refine the design, starting off with some [...]
Best laid plans. Blueprint for a charity home page
To help the client team moving forward I’ve produced a home page blueprint for the website built during Full Code Press. With web projects requiring information architecture and overall user experience input it’s often as useful to justify the strategy and principles behind recommended approaches as it is to implement them. Rainbow Youth helped us [...]
Is User Experience ‘The New Black’ in NZ ?
I’m visiting the main cities in NZ to find out ‘who’s doing what?’ in the area of User Experience and User Centred Design …I’ve met couple of dozen people so far… So, what lies below the surface of the words User Experience? And is it more than just a buzzword? Agencies practising User Centred Design [...]
A sign your User Experience needs a reality check
How can it be that a sign-writer, who arranges letters day in day out, can make a spelling mistake? A mere series of stickers applied to a board, but somewhere along the line, the very purpose of the sign, the word itself became an abstract series of tasks within a task. Happily beavering away up [...]