Website Stencil Kit — UI Stencils. Fluid Grids—a fluid grid calculator by Harry Roberts. 52 Weeks of UX. User experience consultancy & usability training from Userfocus. Dan Saffer's The Disciplines of User Experience. More, better, faster: UX design for startups. Startups don’t have capital to burn or luxurious schedules for big-design-up-front. But unless your idea is by-and-for-engineers, design isn’t something you want to skip on your way to market. For a startup, design may mean the difference between simply shipping, and taking the market by storm. But with tight budgets, and aggressive timelines, how to include design and get the best value for the investment? Eric Ries proposes a cyclical model for development in a startup: Build > Measure > Learn (repeat).
Lots of smart people think he’s onto something. While Ries coined this model to explain how developers work in a lean way, the same model can be applied to design, only our “build” uses different tools, and the work products are at a different fidelity, but it’s still build. Our hypothesis is made manifest and testable. I buy it. So we have a cycle of Learn > Build > Measure (repeat). Faster How fast can we run the cycle? What do we get? More, better Let’s start with the first cycle: Learn. 101 Things I Learned in Interaction Design School: Functionality is the enemy of usability. The big picture of usability and user experience. UX Magazine | Defining and Informing the Complex Field of User Experience (UX) UX Movement - User Interface Blog.