12th
November
2004
“Jeffrey Veen recently joked that ‘every consultant needs a Venn diagram.’ Turns out he was only half-kidding. The two or more overlapping circles that make up a Venn diagram are often used in mathematics to show relationships between sets. In the context of User Experience, however, Venn diagrams are frequently used to ‘quickly convey a message or vision, as a visual reminder to support change/focus, and to easily identify the cause or source of something.’î (Thanks kottke.org!)
posted in Usability | Permalink |
12th
November
2004
“The purpose of the Persona, I believe, is to add empathetic focus to the design. Empathetic focus. By focus I mean that the design must be clean and coherent. It is not a collection of features added willy-nilly through the life-span of the product, even if each feature by itself makes sense. Rather it is having a clear image of what the product is meant to be ó and what it is not meant to be ó and rejecting features that do not fit, only accepting ones that do.”
posted in Personas/Scenarios | Permalink |
12th
November
2004
“Run your very own library from your home or office using our impossibly simple interface. Delicious Library’s digital shelves act as a visual card-catalog of your books, movies, music and video games. A scan of a barcode is all Delicious Library needs to add an item to your digital shelves, downloading tons of info from the internet like the author, release date, current value, description, and even a high-resolution picture of the cover.”
posted in Software/Hardware | Permalink |
12th
November
2004
“A function to show an ëimage loadingÖí message and subsequent fade-in of a photo. Inspired by the Flash-like effect on Couloir.”
posted in Web design | Permalink |
