【Design Thinking Workshop】Day 1：从调研开始 2月25日，上海。26名来自全国各地的年轻人，组成了5个跨专业的团队，开始了他们在Design Thinking Workshop 2013的第一天的挑战——活动组织方提供了两个课题抽签选择： 1、如何从用户的角度从新定义Ultrabook（超级笔记本电脑）？ 2、如何重新思考“烹饪”这一日常活动来促进年轻人的全新社交体验？ 你会如何解答这两个问题？ Design Thinking Workshop 2013Day 1，Understanding & Consumer Research 【【两个挑战】】 Challenge 1 如何从用户的角度从新定义Ultrabook（超级笔记本电脑）？ 课题背景：Intel在2011年底宣布了Ultrabook的全新概念：超快/超薄/超长待机，直接暗示了Ultrabook将要取代普通笔记本电脑的趋势。 Tips：尽管Intel不断在定义Ultrabook，但都是从纯技术的角度。 项目领队： 陈华Chen Hua 联想（上海）研发中心用户体验部高级主管工程师。 Challenge 2 如何重新思考“烹饪”这一日常活动来促进年轻人的全新社交体验？ 课题背景：在网络无处不在的今天，“社交”（Social）已经成为人们生活不可或缺的一部分。 Tips：将“Social”和“Cooking”两个词是这个项目的关键。 甘艺凡Gan Yifan Continuum（上海）创新咨询师。 【【5支Design Thinker团队】】 【【Day 1挑战全过程】】 ■ Team 1： SHERO 他们获得的课题是Challenge 2. 一个小时后，他们确定了调研计划： 由于更多的关注人们在Social中的行为，团队将前往不同的社交场所进行观察： 咖啡厅：观察一般意义的社交行为； 桌游吧：观察具有特定主体的社交行为； 自助烤肉店：观察在群体聚餐活动中不同的角色行为； Focus Group（焦点小组）：邀请6名目标人物，针对“周末朋友家庭聚餐”的主题进行深入讨论，从中观察更为深刻的行为和观点。 ■ Team 2： D-Spark 他们获得的课题也是Challenge 2。 他们确定了调研计划： 他们的目标人群非常明确，因此很快有了如下调研计划： IKEA：观察潜在目标人群的购买行为，以及他们的关注点； ■ Team 3： Delight 他们获得的课题是Challenge 1。
Using MBTI to shape User Personas’ personality | UX Lady You are interviewing some people for building your User Personas or perhaps to explore how they will react to different product solutions. Then you realize you need to know some personality traits in order to understand why they react the way they do. But how to identify personality traits in a quick feasible and credible manner instead of just based on observation? I make myself the same question some time ago, and here is how I solve it using MBTI. Perhaps you have seen on my layout for User Personas, an area dedicated to “Personality”. My goal was to find a solution that was suitable for daily practice, taking into account available resources and the necessary velocity required by agile methodology. The original MBTI questionnaire count with 93 forced-choice questions making their use unlikely in the context of a user testing. The method I apply consist, as I said, in a very reduced questionnaire to determine the MBTI four letter code. Step 1. Which statement describes you better? 1.
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Card Sorting Card sorting is a method used to help design or evaluate the information architecture of a site. In a card sorting session, participants organize topics into categories that make sense to them and they may also help you label these groups. To conduct a card sort, you can use actual cards, pieces of paper, or one of several online card-sorting software tools. Benefits of Card Sorting Card sorting will help you understand your users' expectations and understanding of your topics. Build the structure for your website Decide what to put on the homepage Label categories and navigation Open and Closed Card Sorting Depending on your needs, you may choose to do an open or closed card sort. Open Card Sort: Participants are asked to organize topics from content within your website into groups that make sense to them and then name each group they created in a way that they feel accurately describes the content. You may also choose to try a combination of the two. Choosing a Technique Prepare the cards
10 essential books that all creative freelancers must read If you’re thinking about taking the plunge into freelancing or you’re already dipping your toes in at the deep end, you don’t need to feel alone. Loads of support can be found in the pages of many helpful books. Whether you’re unsure how to get started, don’t know how to handle your finances, or need some advice on how to get your name heard; these essential freelancing books are here to help… 1. Written with voices that matter, Logo Design Love author and international designer David Airey gets down to all the nitty-gritty questions that you’ve been too afraid to ask. 2. Inspired by Thomas Edison’s famous quote that genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration, Scott Belsky has collected hundreds of interviews from the most productive creative people and teams all around the world. 3. If you’re stuck in a 9 to 5 job that really isn’t inspiring you or engaging your creativity, author Marianne Cantwell’s Be a Free Range Human can help. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
交互案例分享 @ICOjump Vector Illustration: 60 Illustrator Tutorials, Tips and Best Practices - Noupe Design Blog Jul 14 2008 Adobe Illustrator is a powerful tool for illustrating various elements one can use for web pages and print design. However, it’s important to know what to do in order to powerfully use its tools and achieve certain effects. So, step-by-step tutorials can provide a lot of help, thats why we spent a lot of time searching for the best tutorials out there and the result was 60 remarkable illustrator tutorials, tips, best practices from some of the best illustrators and artists; besides you’ll also find references to brilliant illustrator portfolios out there. Let’s take a look at some of the best Adobe Illustrator tutorials we’ve found in the Web so far. You might be interested to check other Illustrator related posts: Tutorials 1-From Sketch to Vector Illustration- A technique of vector illustrating that takes a little bit more skill is starting with a hand drawn sketches.This tutorial will focus on that technique of vector illustrating. 18-Creating a Crazy Cool Logo Freebies
AC4D Design Library 40 Creative and Versatile Adobe Illustrator Tutorials From 2012 Adobe Illustrator is the designer’s best friend (and together with Photoshop, they’re like Starsky & Hutch). Illustrator offers unlimited opportunities, but you need to know how to use them. That’s where neat tutorials come handy. Tutorials are not going to make you a better or more talented designer, yet the techniques and tricks they cover will come to assist you for a long time. For this roundup, we’ve prepared 40 fresh (2012 only), creative and comprehensive Adobe Illustrator tutorials. Learn Illustrator CS6 As you may know, Creative Suite was released recently but what does it mean for Illustrator grinders? 1. This tutorial is going to show you how to create a Day of the Dead inspired portrait with Adobe Illustrator CS5. 2. In this Adobe Illustrator tutorial you will learn how to create a semi-realistic lifebuoy graphic. 3. In this Adobe Illustrator tutorial you will learn how to create a detailed scanner illustration. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20.
50 Brilliant Photo Manipulation Tutorials to Understand Photoshop Like a Pro Email When it comes to photo editing, the first thing that comes to my mind is Photoshop. Photoshop is the second name of creativity. Photo manipulation may be one of the funniest things you can do with Photoshop. Of course, a person should have lots of patience and time to create some truly stunning artwork, but it’s worth a try. Today, I’ve collected 50 great photo manipulation tutorials, which will teach you many new features. Here, you’ll find tutorials on how to combine photos and brushes, apply textures, create light-leaks and other high-tech elements, mix the components on a suitable background and learn blending, lighting, image adjustment techniques and much more. 1. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. If some tricks and techniques you found here are useful, please help spread them to the world.
Photoshop techniques explained: Exposure | Photography Modern camera exposure and dynamic range optimisation systems are extremely sophisticated, but the majority of images still bene fit from a tweak to the exposure or contrast. Even when a camera does manage to produce an image that's near perfect, you may decide to reduce the exposure to ensure that there's detail in the brightest highlights, or to increase it to bring out shadow detail. Many landscape photographers, for example, routinely underexpose the foreground of their images to make sure that the white clouds have some tonal detail. All that's required to get the image looking absolutely spot-on is a little exposure adjustment to brighten the shadows and mid-tones while retaining that elusive highlight detail. Exposure control Given that exposure control is such a fundamental part of photography, it's no surprise that Photoshop offers an extensive array of ways to adjust it. Brightness/Contrast Levels Curves Exposure Shadows/Highlights HDR Toning So, what's a Histogram? That's it.
20 PSD Tutorials Many people can use Photoshop, but only a select few can call themselves gurus. Learn all the methods in the 20 tutorials below and you’ll be well on your way to joining this elite. Rather than focus on tuts for beginners, intermediates or advanced users, we’ve simply chosen ones which produce jaw-dropping effects. All of them are easy to follow, although most do require at least some prior knowledge and experience. 1. Follow this tutorial to create dazzling, multi-layered, semi-transparent lettering, with a Perspex-like quality. 2. 3D Pixel Stretch Effect File this tutorial under “simple but effective”. 3. Turn a simple cityscape into a torrentially flooded wasteland. 4. Become the master of light and glow on Photoshop with this brief, easy-to-follow guide. 5. Use masking tools, layers, gradients and lines to turn your favorite piece of 3D text into something more colorful and commercial. 6. Mental waves do not exist, but if they did they’d look rather like this. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.