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something I’ve been doing a little research into lately. Anyone got any other good resources on Remote Usability Testing?
Month: April 2006
enjoying analogue wireframing (pencil rules, ok?)
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So, I’ve been doing a whole bunch of wireframing lately.
I have to admit that, in the last little while, I’d gotten into the habit of wireframing straight into Visio, maybe after a quick thumbnail sketch on a notepad somewhere.
The site I’m working on at the moment has quite a bit of application type functionality in it, as well as a whole bunch of content, and offers the opportunity to be a little bit creative with the interaction design.
Out of habit, I pretty much launched straight into Visio (after a couple of quick sketches), but the further I got into it, the less satisfied I was with the output.
So, just for a while, I dumped Visio, got a whole pile of paper, some pencils and a sharpener, and just played around with ideas.
Ahhh. That’s just *soooo* much better.
It’s a little bit 37 Signals/Getting Real (although, these *will* end up as Visio wireframes in a functional specification – the size and dispersal of the team on this project demands that kind of documentation), but it does seem to be a popular approach to documenting RIAs. (Jeffry Veen was saying the other day that he’s going from pencil sketch to build these days).
So, what’s so good about pencil sketching your wireframes?
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links for 08 April 2006
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thinking about presentations, Business Week serves up five great tips to make your presentation almost as good as Steve’s :)
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the presentation theme continues. this is probably hands down the best online resource to help you do a great presentation
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a recurring theme in ‘good presentation’ is being passionate about what your presenting. Kathy’s got that in spades, and also some great thoughts.tips re: presentation in this blogpost.
women of 2.0 (get up and go to a conference?!)
See, this is why we need more women talking out in tech.
We’re just sitting here talking about how we’d like women in technology to be more visible, and ways that we can make this happen and suddenly Dave Winer, Ben Barren and Richard McManus are organising not just one but *two* more conferences!
Just what the world needs. :)
Seriously, whilst I think it would be great to have a web2/blogher doubleheader conference in Australia (it would be great to not travel a million miles to see someone as ‘famous’ as Dave speak) and I would love the opportunity to see and meet more chicks who blog, particularly those who blog about web2, let’s not get distracted.
Fact is, we don’t know where most of these women are and they’re probably not going to write a proposal to speak at your conference. And *that* is the nub of the problem.
Agree? Disagree?
Get down here to my earlier post and join in the discussion.
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