January 2010
28 posts
Watchvideo - Maquetar es informar (I)
Maquetar es informar (I) →
“En un periódico no hay periodistas y maquetadores”, “en un periódico hay periodistas. Unos se especializan en escribir y son redactores, otros en hacer infografías y son infógrafos, y otros en maquetar y diseñar las páginas… y son maquetadores”. — Pedro Pérez Cuadrado, maestro de maquetadores y perdiodistas
Guide to Low-cost Usability Tools →
As someone who works with start-ups and SMBs, finding low-cost, high-impact tools is an absolute necessity. Fortunately, the usability world has been blessed by dozens of new tools over the last…
iPhone y el periodismo móvil →
The future of UI will be boring « Scott Berkun →
Our “desktop” computers’ human interfaces haven’t fundamentally changed since 1984 — keyboard and mouse/trackpad for input, overlapping draggable resizable windows on-screen, and a hierarchical file…
Mashable's Social Media Guide for Journalists →
Using Light, Color and Contrast Effectively in UI... →
User interface (UI) design is both an art and a science. Artistic talent comes in handy when coming up with an attractive style and aesthetic, but at the core of UI design lies logic and method.
The web designer's guide to user experience | News... →
Throughout UX design, testing is important to affirm theories. At Clearleft, designers’ web knowledge enables the process to begin in-house via cognitive walkthroughs – designers imagining themselves…
timoni.org - A practical boarding pass redesign →
Improving the air travel experience is something of a passion of mine, so when I saw Tyler Thompson’s boarding pass redesign, I was intrigued. His article is well-thought-out and provoking, but…
4 Design Elements Behind a Good Call to Action |... →
It is not uncommon for companies to sink large amounts of money into obtaining traffic to their websites in an attempt to increase conversions. Some of their money might go towards search engine…
What is your primary tool for creating wireframes? →
“Estos son malos tiempos. Los hijos han dejado de obedecer a sus padres y todo el...”
– Cicerón)
QuirksBlog: A basic usability test on ten phones →
B. is an old friend of mine who owns an old Nokia. And when I say old, I mean really old. It was released somewhere in 2000 or so (the Nokia, not the friendship). It’s not a smartphone, to put it…
What’s In A Price: The Guidelines For Pricing Web... →
Pricing a website design can seem impossible. A good website design can cost anywhere between thousands of dollars and under fifty dollars, depending on the type of site, how you build it and a…
Great Designs Should Be Experienced and Not Seen →
Recently, in a set of interviews we conducted with avid users of Netflix.com, the online DVD rental web site, we asked “What are the things you like best about the site?” Lots, apparently.
5 razones para seguir usando lectores RSS |... →
Hace poco escribíamos sobre el declive de los lectores RSS como modo de seguir las noticias. He observado que aunque aún hay mucha gente que utiliza lectores RSS, su uso ha disminuido debido a la…
Prototipar para refinar ideas a bajo costo y con... →
La semana pasada hicimos una aplicación en mi trabajo, donde ninguna de las pruebas con usuarios salió bien y el programador me contestó:
