Sat.Oct 25, 2008 - Fri.Oct 31, 2008

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Prototyping with XHTML

Boxes and Arrows

Illustrations by Leah Buley If you design user experiences for standards-based websites and applications (i.e. those built with XHTML , CSS, and JavaScript), there are several great reasons for adding XHTML prototyping to your UX tool kit. Perhaps you’ve found that traditional wireframes just aren’t sufficient and are looking for more powerful ways to explore and communicate design solutions.

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Need a Jolt of Innovation in Your Company? Just do a Rube Goldberg

Bennett Cherry

The famed design firm, IDEO, has recently released a video of their Incredible Ideo Global Chain Reaction Experience. As a means to show their engineering prowess (as this often gets overshadowed by their well-regarded product design work), IDEO created this experience as an internal exercise in both right-brained and left-brained thinking. I think it worked well.

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Innovation Principle #17: When in doubt, use Origami

Bennett Cherry

If you were in my Creativity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship class today, you would have remembered that I presented 16 Principles of Innovation. While I still stand behind the 16, I have recently come across a 17th principle: When in doubt, use Origami. Since it is now past 3:30 PST, many of you are probably tired of reading or viewing any more posts today, but I had to share this one with.