July 2009
93 posts
The Characteristics & Principles of User... →
Design is iterative, right? While creating part two of the two-part “characteristics” diagram (part one: The Essential Characteristics of User Experience), I realized that it was actually a…
Drupal 7 User Experience Project →
Maarten Verbaarschot volunteered to take on a Microproject (thanks Maarten!) and for the past few weeks he has been working on interface design for a Media Library for Drupal. There is a great…
A List Apart: Articles: Visual Decision Making →
User interface experts are often suspicious of the role of visual aesthetics in user interfaces—and of designers who insist that graphic emotive impact and careful attention to a site’s visual…
Nine Essential Characteristics of Good UX... →
Someone sent a message to the Adaptive Path Alums mailing list last fall asserting that Information Architects (IAs) need to be really great coders to do their jobs. I was aghast. I uttered many…
Shades of Gray: Wireframes as Thinking Device →
My good friend Russ Unger recently published a book for Peachpit entitled “A Project Guide to UX Design,” and for his chapter on wireframing, he asked me to contribute some designs, which I was…
Bits PR - Bitspr.net la Red Social de los... →
Bits PR es la primera Red Social de los profesionales de la comunicación. Aquí encontrarás debates, blogs y el conocimiento de todos.
disambiguity » Economist/Drupal - Complex Editing... →
Following on from our work in Sprint 1, I’ve been conducting some research today to establish whether or not we’re going to continue down essentially a traditional ‘admin’ system path or whether…
disambiguity » Economist/Drupal Publishing Tools -... →
I’m in the midst of our first sprint on the ‘publishing tools’ project at the Economist, wherein we’re defining interface designs for the ongoing migration of economist.com over to Drupal 6. hurrah!
Blog del Freelance » Archivo del weblog » 7 pasos... →
En la revista Entrepreneur explican algunos pasos esenciales que debes dar antes de montar tu propia empresa. Los hemos completado con información extraída de una guía práctica para desarrollar tu…
Blog del Freelance » Archivo del weblog »... →
En teoría, para convertir tu idea de negocio en un proyecto empresarial deberías repasar unos cuantos puntos básicos. Los freelance podemos ahorrarnos muchos de ellos, porque normalmente no tenemos…
Blog del Freelance →
El otro día hicimos una lista con los principales riesgos para tu actividad como freelance, pero nos dejamos en el tintero uno muy importante: la salud.
Equipos virtuales de trabajo, ¿cómo hacerlos... →
Es cada día más común que las corporaciones construyan equipos de trabajo virtuales, con sus miembros dispersos en los cuatro rincones de la Tierra. Esta modalidad tiene grandes ventajas en términos…
Blog del Freelance » Archivo del weblog » No eres... →
El otro día hicimos una lista con los principales riesgos para tu actividad como freelance, pero nos dejamos en el tintero uno muy importante: la salud. Estas son algunas de las preguntas con las que…
Blog del Freelance » Archivo del weblog » ¿Qué es... →
¿Qué es el riesgo? Cruzar la autopista sin mirar, bañarse con una tostadora enchufada, comerse un kilo de gambas con rigor mortis… La vida está llena de riesgos. Algunos debemos asumirlos; otro no….
8 razones para usar drupal - alzado.org →
Resumen: Tanto si eres cliente como si eres desarrollador, aquí tienes 8 motivos para empezar a usar este CMS.
20 beautiful free @font-face fonts -... →
All the fonts of this collection are @font-face compatible and licensed for commercial work.
Hand-picked from the amazing fontsquirrel.com
11 Of The Handy Free Tools To Increase Designer’s... →
This is one of the very best (Fresh) list of its kind where you can find the simplest online web designer’s tools that are developed for designers and may be very helpful for you as well when you…
YourLi.st - free / sms email (registrationless)... →
Have you ever wanted to be reminded of an upcoming event? Be it a birthday, important meeting, pick up the kids, eBay auction ending or just a simple reminder to buy bread and milk?
5 More Tips to Make Website Headers More User... →
My recent post, 5 Tips to Make Your Headings More User Friendly, was well received by the UX Community. Given the feedback from our viewers I think it’s time to revisit the topic and explore more…
Los nuevos puestos de trabajo en las redacciones... →
Los periodistas son sólo una especie más en los nuevos contextos de productividad de los medios. Diseñadores y programadores fueron los primeros “invasores”. Pero nuevos perfiles están entrando por…
T-dah Webmail →
T-dah is an Open Sourced Universal Webmail origially developed by Aldoir Ventura under the name Uebimiau in which we picked up late in 2007. It is free and can be installed on any server that…
Fontfabric™ →
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disambiguity » The Economist/Drupal Project - An... →
Some of you may know that The Economist is in the process of moving their web content management over to Drupal and I am really excited to be joining the team working on the implementation of these…
Ten Simple Rules for Choosing the Perfect CMS +... →
The content management system you choose can really make a huge difference in how much time you (or your clients) spend keeping a site updated and maintained. There’s a huge variety out there—some…
10 Tips for Working With Clients Remotely: Part 1... →
Collaborating with clients you never meet face-to-face has become normal for most web workers. Ours is an industry where working remotely poses very few real obstacles — nearly every part of the web…
14 Applications for Project Management and... →
In this article, we list several great applications for project and time management as well as collaboration between you and your clients. There are free and commercial options available.
¿Qué es y para qué sirve el Project Management?... →
Nacido en la década del ‘60 en el Departamento de Defensa de los Estados Unidos, el Project Management es una metodología de planeamiento, organización y gestión de recursos para cumplir exitosamente…
ProjectPier.org →
ProjectPier is a Free, Open-Source, self-hosted PHP application for managing tasks, projects and teams through an intuitive web interface. ProjectPier will help your organization communicate,…
27 Inspirational Horizontal Scrolling... →
Horizontal Scrolling was considered evil before, but now it’s considers as one of a unique way ( mostly for showcasing Things) of approach in web design, And it seems that in most cases it is really…
Proyecto de vacaciones: monta tu oficina en casa |... →
Me estoy preparando para empezar las vacaciones blogueras (que no laborales). Pero antes, quiero dejaros algo de trabajo para que apliquéis todo lo que os hemos ido explicando a lo largo de estos…
Interview: Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone Says New... →
Twitter will unveil a new main homepage next week at Twitter.com, said co-founder Biz Stone, in order “to better show who we are.”
70 Typographic, Clean And Minimalist Color Scheme... →
Hello there! It’s time for little inspiration and this time I wanted to showcase something different. You may know that very popular designer slogan – “More is Less”, and yes it’s often so true –…
Focus groups vs. usability testing - what, when... →
User research is a crucial component of any website or product development process. It will help you to identify the needs of your users and demonstrate how your website, intranet or application can…
8 guidelines for usability testing →
In professional web design circles, the usability testing session has become an essential component of any major project. Similar to focus groups in brand development and product launches, usability…
25 Outstanding Church Websites – Part III |... →
In the past we have published two collections of excellent church website designs. Today we will continue by showcasing another 25 inspiration church websites. If you know of others that you think…
HTML Table Building: 30+ Beautiful Examples and... →
Table is an excellent way of presenting information, especially when a company wants to cite various prices for its services or products. For instance, some websites require users to sign up…
Designer of 2015 competencies — AIGA | the... →
In order to fulfill the expectations placed upon designers in the future, they will need to employ a set of skills that include some beyond today’s typical scope. No single designer is likely to have…
30 Examples of Extreme Minimalism in Web Design |... →
As a follow up on last week’s roundup of 105 Examples of Clean and Minimal Twitter Apps, I thought this week would be the time to share with everyone examples of extreme minimalism in web design, and…
Innovative user interface design →
Increasing numbers of websites are developing new types of user interface design, taking advantage of users’ increasing levels of Internet-sophistication and faster connections. These new interfaces…
233grados.com: Twitter para empresas →
Algunas empresas grandes y muchas pequeñas o recién nacidas están comenzando a utilizar Twitter como un canal de comunicación con sus clientes y público potencial y para hacer negocios. Haciéndose…
User experience over usability →
We all know a poor experience with a brand can be fatal. Have you returned to a restaurant where you got poor food, or terrible service? Have you gone so far as to warn others away?
Graph Paper | Konigi →
This 8.5 x 11 inch graph paper is made for visual designers, interaction designers, and information architects. You’ll find styles for wireframing user interfaces, story boarding interaction, and…
Twitter Launches a Twitter 101 Guide for Business →
We know that Twitter (Twitter)’s rising rapidly in popularity. We also know that a huge number of Twitter users don’t stick around. So what’s a company with a user retention problem to do? Launch a…
Usability testing, user testing from Webcredible →
Usability testing (or user testing) involves watching typical site visitors attempt to complete realistic tasks on your website, with us measuring the ease with which they do so. The results of the…
User-centered design (UCD) - 6 methods →
User-centered design (UCD) is a project approach that puts the intended users of a site at the centre of its design and development. It does this by talking directly to the user at key points in the…
Graph Paper | Konigi →
This 8.5 x 11 inch graph paper is made for visual designers, interaction designers, and information architects. You’ll find styles for wireframing user interfaces, story boarding interaction, and…
'5 Free User Experience Design Tools' from... →
Trying to improve your website but your organisation has no budget to buy you the latest shiny piece of software? Here are some free tools to help you get things done through the recession:
Turn Gmail Into Your Ultimate GTD Inbox →
If you love Gmail and you happen to be a disciple of the Getting Things Done philosophy, reader Chris Zimmerman details how he employs a couple of Gmail Labs features to transform Gmail into an…