Wireframing
Sep/091
Wire-framing is a pretty hot topic at the moment with a lot of discussions and tutorials emerging lately. Smashing Magazine have an excellent (as usual) round-up of the latest techniques and applications for this crucial part of the application development process.
I use Axure but feel I have been falling into the trap of making them too detailed and graphic. Axure encourages this with its amazing tools and interactivity but I need to learn to temper the inclination to make it pretty and let the viewer focus on the layout and features.
Axure 5.6 was released last week after a short beta period and introduced some killer features that include converting any widget to a master or dynamic panel. This feature alone is worth the upgrade.
Some other Axure resources I’ve found useful lately include:
- Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit
- A Clean Design Pattern Library and Better Defaults
- William Design Patterns
- AXLIB
- Key Icons Icon Collection
Happy Wire-framing
Whats my deliverable?
Jul/090
Identifying the correct deliverable for a IA/UX project can be difficult. If your a developer its easy, its code, if your a copywriter its .. well.. copy.
Peter Morville at Semantic Studios has written a great post on UX deliverables (some time ago now.. but better late than never) where he identifies a raft of possible deliverables.
Whilst most are a step in the process and I imagine most UX projects would require a combination of these I love the idea of delivering a “proverb”.
He’s even packaged them up into a wonderfull “treasure map”.
Peter Morville's UX Treasure Map
photostream
