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430
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The Role of User Experience in Interface Design
The term user experience is widely applicable in many fields. User experience (often abbreviated as UX) describes a user's experience interacting with any type of product or system. In computer science, user experience comprises all of the user's interactions with a given user interface or software system.
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Martin Metz |
Feb-09-2011
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398
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Online-Collaboration reduces Cost in Web Development
Collaborative software solutions aim to transform the way ideas, documents and rich media are shared from distributed locations in order to enable more effective team collaboration.
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Martin Metz |
Feb-09-2011
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382
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Web Development Outsourcing – getting it right!
Have you ever thought about outsourcing some of your web developments? I did and it caused me a lot of headaches! Outsourcing services like Elance or RentACoder sound intriguing in the first place, and it seems that you get a lot of bang for your buck – in theory!
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Martin Metz |
Feb-09-2011
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351
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How do you undergo usability testing with paper prototypes?
The users that are invited to attend should be representative of the intended customer of your product meaning you have to identify them before recruiting them for testing. Tasks, or use cases, have to be designed for users to go through before you can create the paper prototypes. Go through the paper prototypes in-house prior to usability testing.
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Martin Metz |
Feb-08-2011
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361
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Google does it right - and wrong! An Appeal for more User Centric Design
It’s not a secret that Google’s success (or at last the fast adoption rate) has been accelerated through an exceptional example of simplicity and user centered design on their search page (homepage).
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Martin Metz |
Feb-08-2011
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648
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Good Rules for Bad Interface Design
In the internet you can find a plethora of lists with helpful usability design guidelines and patterns. There are so many that it’s not really worth writing about. But today I have found something really cool! A great source for web designers who try just not to get it right: The ‘Golden Rules for Bad User Interfaces’ by the SAP design guild.
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Martin Metz |
Feb-08-2011
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360
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Yahoo! Design Patterns – Review of a great Source for Interface Designers
This Yahoo! Design Pattern category solves the most important problem on a website: finding the right stuff! These design patterns present best practices for all sorts of navigation challenges, filter options, pagination, navigation tabs and bars etc.
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Martin Metz |
Feb-07-2011
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371
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Wireframe Fidelity - Part 2: High Fidelity Wireframes & Other Kinds of Wireframes
In part two of this blog we shall have a closer look at high fidelity wireframes as well as other kinds of wireframes. Wireframes are more and more important in developing today's software and web applications.
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Martin Metz |
Feb-07-2011
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353
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Wireframe Fidelity - Part 1: Low Fidelity Wireframes
Wireframes allow designers to test, refine and adjust software user interfaces to improve user experience and functionality early in the development process when mistakes are much cheaper to rectify. Wireframes are particularly useful in the collaborative process as they ensure that team members and all stakeholders can keep track of a project's workflow.
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Martin Metz |
Feb-07-2011
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410
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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.
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Martin Metz |
Feb-07-2011
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455
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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.
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Martin Metz |
Feb-05-2011
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610
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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.
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Martin Metz |
Feb-05-2011
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466
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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.
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Martin Metz |
Feb-05-2011
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543
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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.
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Martin Metz |
Feb-05-2011
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388
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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.
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Martin Metz |
Feb-04-2011
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374
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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.
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Martin Metz |
Feb-04-2011
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335
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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.
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Martin Metz |
Feb-04-2011
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668
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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.
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Martin Metz |
Feb-04-2011
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453
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Total Presentation Management System with a Difference
IClickPoint is a hosted powerpoint presentation management software to build an online powerpoint slide library which allows users to access and create their own custom powerpoint presentation.
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Joe Slater |
Feb-03-2011
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393
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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.
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Martin Metz |
Feb-03-2011
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515
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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.
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Martin Metz |
Feb-03-2011
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347
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Dantemoore: Growth Of Mobile Industry
Mobile industry is considered as one of the most money earning industry with very huge returns every month.
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tuffelrandom |
Feb-03-2011
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432
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Secondary And Tertiary Sales Data Are Goldmines For Manufacturers
For any business, the key to success is accurate sales data at all distribution levels including Primary, Secondary and Tertiary. This article describes the Importance of Secondary and Tertiary Sales Data.
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By
Rakesh Kumar |
Feb-02-2011
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359
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A Task Reminder is Available in Various Formats
People today are very busy balancing work, family, and personal time. Many people work over 40 hours a week and then must spend time taking care of the family as well. Parents must juggle the children’s activity schedules, dentist and doctor appointments, and school commitments around their work schedules and tasks. Somewhere in between all that a couple tries to schedule some time together.
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Ted Cory |
Feb-01-2011
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Business text messaging perfect for endorsing your products and business
Many companies prefer to use SMS services in order to tell their potential customers regarding new offers and plans at the same time, the government even updates in case of emergency requirements.
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Neeraj Saini |
Jan-31-2011
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