RUX Design Studio Meeting Notes
We used our August 27 session to Define RUX (note the capital D in define) using the Design Studio approach. We walked through and agreed upon who RUX serves, how RUXers want to be served, and what those programs might be. All notes below. Please let us know if we have missed anything. The next […]
Fun Facts from Interaction ’12
In Interaction Design Association’s annual conference recently concluded in Dublin. From co-chair Steve Baty as well as committee member Ben Arent, here are a few fun facts and a few points of note: 749 people sat down to witness the opening Keynote from Luke Williams Approximately 800 people were involved in the conference – full […]
2011 in review on richmondux.com
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,800 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 30 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see […]
UX Books–and Such a Deal!
We’ve had great support from the fine folks at Rosenfeld Media almost since the beginning of RUX. Their books focus on specific aspects of user experience thought and design. So, we’re glad to share their latest press release, outlining a stupendous deal, just in time for the holidays: Rosenfeld Media: 40% off everything through January […]
Some Design Studio and Other Resources
After the meeting on Wednesday, several people expressed more interest in how the time-honored design studio method is being used in UX design. Here are some thoughts and references: Design Studio The design studio concept is discussed in Todd Zaki Warfel’s book Prototyping: A Practitioner’s Guide (use code MOJOGUZZI for 25% off this & any […]
Maxure Beta is out!
A lot of us UX designers have been satisfying with Axure in a PC emulation on the Macintosh…until now. Axure RP have released a bona fide beta of Axure RP for the Mac
Resources for Better Agile UX
Agile User Experience Projects Nielsen | November 4, 2009 http://www.useit.com/alertbox/agile-user-experience.html Agile Development Projects and Usability Nielsen | November 17, 2008 http://www.useit.com/alertbox/agile-methods.html Quick and Dirty Usability Testing: Step Away from the Book Chisnell | October 20, 2008 http://www.uie.com/articles/usabilitytesting_dc Agile Methods and User-Centered Design: How These Two Methodologies Are Successfully Integrated In Industry Fox, Sillito, Maurer | […]
Popular UX books
Louis Rosenfeld just posted a nice list of popular UX books for UX bookclubs. Bring your top choices to next month’s meeting where we’ll vote on our next bookclub book!
Possible RUX UX Bookclub Book Authors in Podcast
In our last (and first) bookclub, we read Adaptive Path’s Subject to Change. I suggested A Project Guide to UX Design as our next book. Here’s a link to a podcast with authors Carolyn Chandler and Russ Unger: A Project Guide to UX Design. Thoughts?
New Journal in Information Architecture
From ASIS-l: The Journal of Information Architecture inaugural Spring 2009 Issue, Issue 1, Volume 1, is now available online at http://journalofia.org/. Table of Contents Dorte Madsen Editorial: Shall We Dance? Gianluca Brugnoli Connecting the Dots of User Experience Helena Francke Towards an Architectural Document Analysis Andrew Hinton The Machineries of Context James Kalbach On Uncertainty […]
In light of our last meeting about selling user experience…
Selling Usability: User Experience Infiltration Tactics, a new book, just came across the IAI list and looks to be interesting. Let us know if you’ve read it and/or think it would be a good book club candidate.
10 Most Common Misconceptions about User Experience
Whitney Hess just published an excellent post about User Experience and what it is/isn’t. Read the full post here. Read a follow-up by Eric Reiss on fatdux.com.
New Presentation on Information Architects
‘Will the Real Information Architect Please Stand Up?’ Excellent presentation defining IAs – who they are and how they work/think.