Martin Metz's Article in Software

401 Wireframe Creation for Dummies
Wireframes help you to go the long and rocky road from a general idea for a website to the specification with all detailed information for the designers and programmers.
Posted on Feb-07-2011

443 Prototyping 2.0 - Digital Interface Prototyping
Advantages of Wireframe Software: The advantages of such a wireframing software are obvious: through the interaction features you get a much better impression of how your concepts work with the user and whether all possible use cases have been considered.
Posted on Feb-05-2011

600 Digg UI Redesign - Relaunch a New User Interface Design
Usually the goal behind such an overhaul of the UI design is to make it more attractive and easy to use for the website’s users. Often, changes are done iteratively to optimize the GUI.
Posted on Feb-05-2011

453 Desirability and Interface Design
Evaluating the desirability of a user interface design is a beneficial way of complementing usability testing. After determining that a user interface design is usable, an interface designer might want to know more about what users perceive in terms of intangible variables, such as “joy” and “fun” when using an application.
Posted on Feb-05-2011

529 Designing for Success: Storyboarding your Website
The storyboard is a usability prototype consisting of a series of screen sketches that permit you to visualize and organize the content and configuration of your website. A storyboard allows you to optimize efficiency and organization during the nascent stages of website creation.
Posted on Feb-05-2011

376 Cloud applications: avoiding the pitfall of poor usability design
Cloud applications utilize the internet as a means of providing software to various users. Providing software in this manner can be usability advantageous and eliminates the need for clients to install and run the application on their personal computers. This enables an easier process of maintenance and support.
Posted on Feb-04-2011

364 Building great User Experiences
Visual Design is aimed at optimizing the visual communication between user and website (or website’s content). Visual design communicates the underlying site’s structure to the user, pointing out relevant information or interaction artifacts at the appropriate time in the process. On a more general basis this manifests in graphic design standards (aka. style guides) and branding guidelines for a website.
Posted on Feb-04-2011

326 User Involvement Methods for Great User Interface Design
Whether people are users of school services or web and software user interfaces, actively involving users gives them a voice and enables them to sound their experiential opinions.
Posted on Feb-04-2011

659 Benefits of User Involvement
The ultimate benefit of user involvement is an optimally usable system. Sounds simple but often the simplest goal can only be achieved through a complex process.
Posted on Feb-04-2011

376 User Interface Design Methods Explained Accessibility Design
Generalizability further expands on consistency within an interface design by looking at software applications that are similar to yours.
Posted on Feb-03-2011

499 Does Great Usability Equal Great User Interface Design?
At its most fundamental level, usability is defined as the study of the ease with which people can achieve a particular goal by operating a human-made tool or system. The central question of usability is how well can users learn and use a system or tool to achieve a goal and how satisfied are they with the process provided by the system or tool.
Posted on Feb-03-2011