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Opinion: What the flaming monkey balls is a UX Designer anyway?
Tools and deliverables don’t define what a UX Designer is or does. But how do we describe ourselves to other people without this convenient mechanism? I was recently having a little check of my LinkedIn. Aside from my profile once again being incomplete (I strongly believe it is impossible to have a complete LinkedIn profile…
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Prototypes – The Beginner’s Guide
Our Beginner’s Guide series is designed to help those who are just starting to learn about user experience, or those who want to brush up on the basics. In this part, we take a look at prototypes. What is a prototype? A prototype is a quasi-realistic representation of what you are building that can be…
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Content Strategy for Wireframes – Do You Build A Web Without Words?
As UX researchers and designers we need to understand the complexities of the human mind to represent our users in usable designs that will fulfil both user and business goals. In the last few years I have been part of big implementation projects. Developers, UX designers, business analysts and product managers often forget that they…
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Using Personas and User Journeys For Business Strategy – The Changing Role of UX
I’ve noticed a recent shift in the kinds of projects I have been getting from clients. Very often, rather than building a website, app or other solution which will be used by end users I am being asked to use user experience techniques to help visualise a business strategy. In many cases this strategy can…
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Opinion: 3 Ways Anything Can Teach Us Something About Something
Vicky Teinaki recently put together a generator to highlight the prevalence in blogs of the ‘# Things X Can Teach Us About Y’ format in blog titles. In fact, putting ‘things can teach us about’ into Google yields 330,000,000+ results. It’s a title pattern I have even used in previous posts. Its overuse as a literary device is probably…
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Wireframes – The Beginner’s Guide
Our Beginner’s Guide series is designed to help those who are just starting to learn about user experience, or those who want to brush up on the basics. In this part, we take a look at wireframes. What is a wireframe? A wireframe is a visual representation of a user interface, stripped of any visual…
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Interview – Michael Angeles on Balsamiq – A Rapid Prototyping Tool
We talk to Michael Angeles from Balsamiq about their rapid prototyping tool. 1. How would you describe Balsamiq to those new to UX? Balsamiq Mockups is a rapid wireframing tool that provides rough, sketch-style output so that you can focus on what’s important during the earliest-stages of product design. Low-fidelity elements keep visual design out…
