What does an information experience design toolkit look like? Posts in this category describe, analyze, critique, and/or discuss emerging or established tools, techniques, methods, and approaches that inform or facilitate the design of great experiences.
UIuiAs a UX designer, there are many software or apps to accelerate the work. Zeplin and adobe capture are two useful application for UX designer to enhance their efficiency, containing collaborating with other colleagues and accumulating design material library. Zeplin The final work of a UX design project is high fidelity prototype, and then it normally …
A Brief Introduction to Zeplin and Adobe capture Read More »
When you’re designing for international users of web products, internationalization and localization are things you have to consider. With the two together, we can call it web globalization (= internationalization + localization). The first and right instinct is to deal with translation, but it’s more than just using an auto-translator to simply translate the language …
UX/UI Design for globalization – more than just translation Read More »
What is the HEART Framework? The HEART Framework was created by 3 members of Google’s research department to help UX teams focus on specific dimensions of user experience that should be focused on for the project, and to identify goals and tools to track progress. Using the Heart Framework to measure and track process can …
Google’s HEART Framework- Measuring and Tracking Progress Towards Key Goals Read More »
This discussion on berrypicking techniques and how users retrieve information online is heavily based on Marcia Bates’s, The Design of Browsing and Berrypicking Techniques for the Online Search Interface (1989). The berrypicking technique is… well, it refers to a lot of things. First, it’s a model for information retrieval, or how we search and find …
BERRYPICKING A discussion based on Bates’s The Design of Browsing… (1989) Read More »
Word clouds — a form of “tag clouds” — are visual representations of the prominent word choices in a selected text. The relative importance of a term is indicated by the weight of the font: the more often it appeared in the original source, the larger the word appears in the graphic “cloud.” This “Web …
Word Clouds in Four Steps: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly Read More »
What is Pure Methodology and why is it important? While interning with Techsmith this summer, I got the opportunity to participate in a usability evaluation method called Pure (Pragmatic Usability Rating by Experts) Methodology. This was my first experience participating in PURE usability evaluation method and found the method to be very productive …
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Introduction “Fail early, fail often”, a quote extremely relevant to the field of User Experience due to the fact that following such a modus operandi is essential for making swift iterative improvements to products. Mockups and wireframes are great tools that assist in rapid-prototyping, due to their lower level of detail and simpler construction. While …
My Experience with Balsamiq Mockups – A Rapid Wireframing Tool Read More »
I learned the user story mapping when I worked as a product design intern at a startup company. They used this method to build their products. I think it is really a powerful technique that helps to organize what functionalities we need to build for users and also serves a good communication between team members. For …
Introduction Affinity Designer came out in 2014. It features a set of smooth, fast and precise graphic design tools. It has been improving and adding more interesting functionalities in 4 years. Now, it can be not only an equivalent but also a strong competitor of Adobe Illustrator. As an interaction designer, we might also want to …
INTRODUCTION During my Projects in IXD class last week, I presented a live walkthrough of some of Adobe XD’s most useful features and design modes, all in seven minutes. I wanted to share the ease of which one can learn Adobe’s design tool and how smoothly the program carries out complex tasks in the blink …
Adobe XD Design Tool: A Brief Overview and Helpful Features Read More »