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Archives UX Design. Pour moi, le wireframing est l'étape la plus intéressante au sein d'un projet Web.

Archives UX Design

Les wireframes structurent, hiérarchisent et orientent le contenu afin de guider l'ensemble des intervenants du projet. Certaines personnes préféreront débuter cette phase de conception en réalisant les premiers croquis à main levée. Le wireframing papier permet d’obtenir un aperçu base définition de l’application avant de convertir le tout en version numérique. Lire la suite… Avec la dernière version de son OS, Microsoft souhaite offrir une nouvelle expérience utilisateur à ses aficionados. Windows 8 propose une interface graphique mettant l’accent sur la simplicité du design, accompagnée d’une refonte des interactions.

Lire la suite… Il y a quelques semaines, je me demandais quels sont les avantages d'un site Web du type one page. Lors de ma recherche, je suis tombé sur une discussion Quora abordant le sujet des sites Web comportant de longues landing pages. La cause de toute cette énergie gaspillée ? Tips on Prototyping for Usability Testing. By Jim Ross Published: October 8, 2012 “The most effective research techniques involve observing participants doing things and talking about what they’re doing. … Therefore, the best way to evaluate a new design is to create a prototype and give participants something concrete to interact with and react to.”

Tips on Prototyping for Usability Testing

Because user research studies peoples’ behavior, the most effective research techniques involve observing participants doing things and talking about what they’re doing. Research that focuses on opinions and discussions of behavior in the abstract isn’t as useful, because it’s difficult for people to talk about their behavior out of context or to evaluate a design without using it. Therefore, the best way to evaluate a new design is to create a prototype and give participants something concrete to interact with and react to. However, there are some differences between testing a prototype and testing a fully functional Web site or application. Lean Startup Is Great UX Packaging. Advertisement When Albert Einstein was a professor1 at Princeton University in the 1940s, there came the time for the final exam of his physics class.

Lean Startup Is Great UX Packaging

His assistants passed the exam forms to the hundreds of students, and the hall was dead silent. One of the assistants suddenly noticed something was wrong. She approached Einstein and told him that a mistake had been made with the exam form and that the questions were the same as those in the previous year’s exam. Einstein glanced over the exam form and said that it was OK. The lean startup movement, like Einstein’s physics exam, talks about the same things that UX people have talked about for decades. One other factor that has changed dramatically is the audience.

The lean startup answer to the same question uses plain language that people understand. Fixing A Broken User Experience. Advertisement Unless you’re developing completely new products at a startup, you likely work in an organization that has accumulated years of legacy design and development in its products.

Fixing A Broken User Experience

Even if the product you’re working on is brand spanking new, your organization will eventually need to figure out how to unify the whole product experience, either by bringing the old products up to par with the new or by bringing your new efforts in line with existing ones. A fragmented product portfolio sometimes leads to an overall broken user experience. Understanding an organization and its users and designing the right interaction and visual system take exceptional effort. You also need to communicate that system to teams that have already produced work that doesn’t align with it. The Hierarchy Of Effort Many large successful companies end up in a situation where they must maintain dozens, if not hundreds, of applications in their product portfolios.

Visual Consistency and Simplification. Business Model Canvas for User Experience by. Alexander Osterwalder’s Business Model Canvas is the tool of choice for a quick, one page dashboard of your business hypotheses.

Business Model Canvas for User Experience by

It very much appeals to the business guy in me, but it irks the User Experience (UX) part of my brain. But hey…the canvas is a tool. Use the right tool for the right job. Don’t have the right tool? Make your own. I’m not suggesting the canvas is wrong. Qu'est-ce que l'expérience utilisateur ? User experience consultancy & usability training from Userfocus. Beyond Wireframing: The Real-Life UX Design Process. We all know basic tenets of user-centered design.

Beyond Wireframing: The Real-Life UX Design Process

We recognize different research methods, the prototyping stage, as well as the process of documenting techniques in our rich methodological environment. The question you probably often ask yourself, though, is how it all works in practice? What do real-life UX design processes actually look like? Do we have time for every step in the process that we claim to be ideal? In this article, I’ll share a couple of insights about the real-life UX design process and speak from my own experience and research. User-Centred Design: Truth Vs. A few years ago, I joined one of the biggest e-commerce companies in Eastern Europe. For the next three years, we worked hard to put user experience design at the heart of a developer-driven culture. To deliver a user interface on time, we were forced to get really lean. Upaposter_85x11.pdf.