5 UX Geniuses We Love to Follow on Twitter. We’re not lying – we love the UX community. You all, and I do mean you Dear Reader, are awesome. We even made it the number one thing we learned about UX from our end of the year post. The general level of awesomeness is well, awe inspiring. We thought it would be good to hightlight those UX masters who delight us on the regular via Twitter. It’s not a contest. As an example, It’s hard not to spend the time reading posts instead of writing this post. Jared M. Jared Spool, UX funny man @jmspool. Keith Kmett, CUA Keith Kmett @kkmett I’m not sure of Keith’s background and only have a vague idea of what the CUA means next to his name. Patrick Neeman Patrick Neeman, keeping us drinking and laughing all the way to UX nirvanna @Usabilitycounts. Paper-in-Screen Prototyping. In many industries, prototyping is an effective way of modeling a system to test it and gather feedback from engineers, other designers, stakeholders and, most importantly, end users.
Practitioners in the UX field are familiar with prototyping when designing physical devices, web, and mobile applications. UX designers can use Flash, HTML, or other robust programming languages to build prototypes that closely resemble the final product, allowing test participants to interact with the prototype more realistically to generate valuable feedback for designers. Unfortunately, these types of prototypes aren’t generally used early in a product's lifecycle because they can be difficult and slow to produce.
UX designers trying to build these prototypes may need the help of software engineers or developers in the team. Besides taking considerable time and effort to create, implementing any changes on these type of prototypes can also be time-consuming. Low-Fidelity Prototyping.
W. Media. Tech. Rejuvenated Vintage Typewriters. Passion Capital emerges from White Bear Yard with $60 million fund to seed startups. A new early stage investment firm is de-cloaking in London today.
Three prominent Angel investors on the tech scene in London – Stefan Glaenzer, Eileen Burbidge and Robert Dighero – have been operating out of their White Bear Yard base in Clerkenwell for just under a year. Rumours circulated that they were looking to raise a real fund to continue their work, and now the news is about to break (ok, now it’s broken). Passion Capital (@passioncapital) is a brand new fund aimed squarely at early stage tech startups and has closed its first investment at £37.5 million ($60 million). They anticipate making about 50 investments, where the average investment size is likely to be £150k-£200k at a time. But they say they will go as small as £15k-£50k and also “most certainly higher” than £200k depending on the situation.
This first fund for Passion comprises significant funding from the private sector, family funds and high net-worth individuals. We have… Learn More.
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