Talks | List. Interaction Design Association - Homepage. Useit.com: Jakob Nielsen on Usability and Web Design. Personas. Whew. That was close. As every year, there’s a risk that we’ll be overrun with with zombies, werewolves, vampires, sasquatch(es), and mummies before the veil that separates the world seals tight for another year. But a quick tally around the Cooper offices shows that here, at least, we all made it.
Hope all our readers are yet un-undead as well. While we’re taking this breather, we’re called to reflect a bit on this year’s interaction design for monsters. Monsters are extreme personas One of the power of personas is that they encourage designers to be more extrospective, to stop designing for themselves. But then again… Some of the constraints of the monsters are human constraints writ large (or writ strangely).
Juan wasn’t a useful person in and of himself, but his users exercised flash mob requirements of real-time activation and coordination. Jesse James Garrett: experience design and information architecture resources. Nielsen Norman Group: usability consulting, training & user research reports. User Interface Engineering - Usability Research, Training, and Events - UIE. Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design. Product Design & Strategy. Usable Web. Home.
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