Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 30, 2010

As busy practitioners, we rarely have the chance to step back and think about the future of our field—we’re too busy resolving day-to-day issues. The Human Interface (or: Why Products are People, Too) – Christopher Fahey We can no longer ask users to think like machines just to be able to use software.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 3, 2009

At the moment, it can be a pretty daunting experience for someone who is new to Drupal or who doesn’t have a developer background and we’re trying to improve that experience by developing a system wide design that is more focussed on the ‘content creator’ role than it has been in the past.

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 5, 2009

However, the overall value will take time to manifest itself, only reaching critical mass when “someone from this room&# ascends to be CEO of an organization and creates a culture that respects the user to decimate the competition. Jesse then puts forth his declaration that Information Architects and Interaction Designers do not exist.

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Xplaner

JULY 6, 2009

Visual thinking , originally uploaded by dgray_xplane. Getting the question right is the most important component in information design, and it’s the most common point where information design goes wrong. Good information design is as much about what you leave out as what you put in. What to leave out: Everything else.

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Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 12, 2009

The role of the information architect (IA), interaction designer, or user experience (UX) designer is to help create architecture and interactions which will impact the user in constructive, meaningful ways. But sometimes the design choices we make are not good enough for the users we’re trying to reach.

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 3, 2009

As web designers and information architects, we often dismiss deep consideration of content when we design interactive experiences. But the design artifacts that we create represent only part of the overall user experience that we’re designing. What happened? There are four common reasons why content gaps occur.

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 22, 2010

As busy practitioners, we rarely have the chance to step back and think about the future of our field—we’re too busy resolving day-to-day issues. Download Going Interactive: How we stopped making static wireframes and started making prototypes – Kevin Wick Looking for more effective ways to communicate your research and designs?

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 15, 2009

– Karl Fast Do we have the conceptual tools necessary for designing with next-generation technologies? Karl Fast , professor in the Information Architecture & Knowledge Management program at Kent State University, argues that our conceptual tools for interaction design are more limited, and limiting, than we currently believe.

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Hutch Carpenter

AUGUST 5, 2015

Innovation efforts come in a variety of forms: innovation and design labs, jobs-to-be-done analysis, corporate venturing, distributed employee experiments, open innovation, TRIZ, etc. Growing the culture of innovation. Track the collaboration culture of the organization, and of specific org units. internal customers).

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Boxes and Arrows

AUGUST 28, 2008

One IM session is with a real person and the other is with an artificial intelligence (AI) program that’s designed to pose as a human being by using a casual conversational tone. When I select a term from a tag cloud, retrieve all documents tagged with that term and order them by their popularity scores.

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Qmarkets

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The project with Qmarkets was designed to retain the people-centric elements that made Colruyt’s previous employee innovation efforts so effective, while scaling them up to spread this ethos throughout the whole group. Eef: Well if you look back at our history, I think it can be traced to an idea our CEO had in the 1970s.

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Boxes and Arrows

JANUARY 12, 2009

Boxes And Arrows : The Design Behind the Design Register or Log In Search Stories Ideas Forums People Events Jobs About December Issue, 2008 Jens Jacobsen 32 Reputation points Jens likes writing for multimedia and loves tracking down usability issues. Again, the well-known principles of interface design apply.

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Boxes and Arrows

MARCH 30, 2010

Once remotely located a designers ability to interact with other team members and effect change are funneled through the telecommunication mediums that the team uses to communicate. Working out which to use, when is not as straight forward as you would think. Tags: Learning From Others.

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Boxes and Arrows

MAY 4, 2009

R&D Wiki This Team Wiki is the home of internal coding standards, design documents, etc. Managing an Enterprise Wiki project Embedding Wiki tools across an enterprise is an organizational change project and as such requires appropriate planning and project management, along both technical and cultural dimensions.

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Boxes and Arrows

APRIL 11, 2010

As busy practitioners, we rarely have the chance to step back and think about the future of our field—we’re too busy resolving day-to-day issues. He encourages the design community to take initiative and solve big problems rather than make small changes incrementally. Because, it’s a little confusion, here.

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