When the iPhone O/S update brought a voice recording feature to the device, I was happily surprised because I love using recorders to take voice notes on the go then transcribe them later on. When I started using the application, I liked the visual skin of the application but was frustrated by its usability: the [...]
Few months ago, we started experimenting with a new Design workflow that we called D3. D3 stands for Deep Dive Design. Prior to D3, we used a communication-intensive process where we involve clients and users in the input and output of each design iteration: vision, usability metrics, stories, tasks, requirements, brainstorming, sketches, wireframes, and visual [...]
During the 2008 web 2.0 expo in San Francisco, I held a round table discussion about design thinking for start-ups. The premise of the discussion was to 1) learn the difference between design (the artifact) and design thinking (the mindset), and 2) to discuss how to integrate best practices for design thinking into the product [...]
During the last startup weekend, a friend pointed me out to a fun tool for creating typographic word clouds called wordle. Today, I decided to play more with it and I gave it the testimonials that clients left in my LinkedIn profile. After some tweaking to the fonts and colors, here is what the output [...]
Last year I worked with Delve Networks to design their user experience. This week, O’Reilly’s InsideRIA blog mentioned Delve as one of the most usable Rich Internet Applications. Here is what Theresa Neil thought of the design: Delve designers realized content creators weren’t interested in navigating through a bunch of screens to accomplish tasks. They [...]
Few weeks ago, one of my friends asked me to help him hire a full time designer for his startup. As it takes a theif to spot a thief, it takes a designer to spot a designer. There are of course questions that I ask about the person’s background, experience, style and ethics. There are [...]
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