I came across an interesting article on hand-drawn interfaces here. Sometimes a Sharpie and good, strong paper tell the story better — and faster — than a fully fleshed out wireframe. (I must confess that ballpoint sketches on notebook paper don’t pack nearly the same…
If you’ve ever tried to communicate a site design via paper, you know the value of also presenting an interactive version with live hyperlinks. Visio users know that it’s pretty easy to create an interactive HTML prototype from a set of wireframes (File>Save as Web…
The November/December 2007 of Ragged Left, the newsletter of the STC Berkeley Chapter, is now online. The issue includes my summary of a talk given by Adaptive Path‘s Sarah Nelson and David Verba, entitled “Lessons Learned from Web Applications and User Centered Design“. In their…
In the past week I’ve come across two useful reviews of best practices for designing web forms. The first is from LukeW’s Functioning Form–he writes about the pros and cons of different label placement options (top-aligned, right-aligned, left-aligned). He’s posted about the topic in detail…
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