Are your users S.T.U.P.I.D? It is an honest question: how smart are your users? The answer may surprise you: it doesn’t matter. They can be geniuses or morons, but if you don’t engage their intelligence, you can’t depend on their brain power. OmniGraffle OmniGraffle is a diagramming and digital illustration application for Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod touch[1] created by The Omni Group. It allows users to convey ideas, organize thoughts visually, and communicate these thoughts and ideas to the world. OmniGraffle is an industry standard tool for User Experience[2] design. Uses[edit] OmniGraffle is used to create high quality graphics and visuals. It's an iOS desktop and tablet application that features several design tools, along with a drag-and-drop WYSIWYG interface and a notes function that can allow users to annotate and create specification documentation for prototypes and mockups.
Vmail: Configuring Entourage 2008, Web Services Edition Home > Services > Messaging > Vmail > Configuring Entourage 2008, Web Services Edition Mail Configuration From the Entourage menu, select Account Settings. Click on the New dropdown, select Exchange. Enter your email address in the blank field and check My account is on an Exchange server. A Beginner's Guide to Wireframing in Omnigraffle Omnigraffle is a tool that can be use for many purposes, but today we'll explore how to use it for wireframing. I've used all kinds of applications for wireframing and, while it's not perfect, Omnigraffle has the best combination of capabilities and efficiency for my workflow. The biggest thing it doesn't have is great interactivity for prototyping. You can produce clickable prototypes but that's about as far as it can go. You can do things like show/hide layers, but those really only work within Omnigraffle.
The difference between a UX Designer and UI Developer « Melbourne, as in the city. I’ve recently found myself trying to explain the difference between the skills I bring to a project as a UX Designer and why I’m not able to cover the role of a dedicated UI Developer. There is of course a necessary overlap between the skills-sets in these roles, which is a good thing. And some individuals have a broader coverage of skills than others. However, people outside of these roles don’t always appreciate the specialist skills and focus that is required to work within them. This as simply as I can describe the different skills required for each role: User Experience (UX) Designer = Research + DesignUI Developer = Design + HTML/CSS/JSApplication Developer = Back-End coding + HTML/CSS/JS etc.
The Printliminator The Printliminator (repo) is a bookmarklet with some simple tools you can use to makes websites print better. One click to activate, and then click to remove elements from the page, remove graphics, and apply better print styling. Here is the bookmarklet: Interactive Color Wheel Experiment with saturation, intensity, hue, and luma. Please do not be intimidated. Click something – Spot won't bite! Accessing Exchange 2007 from your Apple Macintosh If you would like to read the nexy part in this article series please go to Accessing Exchange 2007 from your Apple Macintosh (Part 2) Brief In the course of this two part article I will examine the various options for accessing Exchange from Apple Mac OS X including a discussion of some of the pros and cons of each solution.