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  • Lionhead Studios demos the capabilities of Microsoft Project Natal

    Code named Project Natal by Microsoft, this sensor device that will be able to be added to any XBOX 360 will allow for a controller-free gaming experience. Through Natal, the user will be interact with the Xbox 360 using gestures, spoken commands or presented objects and images instead of the regular game controller we use…

  • Wireframes magazine

    My Axure prototype widgets are mentioned in the Axure libraries and widgets compilation at Wireframes Magazine.

  • Jen Fitzpatrick on the Science and Art of User Experience at Google

    In the Google TechTalks video from 2006, Jen Fitzpatrick talks about the art and science behind Google’s design process and share examples of how design, usability and engineering come together at Google to create great products. About Jen Fitzpatrick Jen Patricks is an Engineering Director at Google, who at least was then managing Google’s user…

  • Creating High Fidelity Prototypes in Visio now possible with VisDynamica (2009)

    Visio for wireframing and prototyping Microsoft Visio has long been regarded as a good tool for wireframing, which I have found especially on large-sized projects where it is crucial to keeping wireframes updated at all times, regardless of constant changes being made to master elements. Used with Adobe Acrobat, Visio works great for documentation. The…

  • Jon Kolko on Design Synthesis

    (Download associated slides, PDF, 4.9 mb) Jon Kolko talks on Design Synthesis, offering two sense making methods to translate research into meaningful insights. The methods he talks about are Insight Combination, a method of building on established design patterns in order to create initial design ideas and Reframing, a method of shifting semantic perspective in…

  • Kim Goodwin on designing a Unified User Experience- integrating Interaction, Visual & Industrial design

    Kim Goodwin talks about integration of the three distinct disciplines- interaction design, visual design, and industrial design. All three must work in concert, or the product that evolves from it will fail to satisfy. Integration of the three disciplines is a central theme of Kim’s new book, Designing for the Digital Age: How to Create…

  • Usability News

    My article, ‘How to Find Usability Test Participants’, is featured at BCS CHI group’s Usability News.

  • Dan Roam on “The Way of the Whiteboard: Persuading with Pictures”

    You can watch the video in WMV format if you don’t have Sliverlight. Dan Roam, author of the book, ‘The back of the napkin’ talks about how to use pictures to clarify and solve problems and how to sell ideas to who ever it may be. The selling ideas bit is extremely important for everyone,…

  • Axure

    My Axure prototype widgets are mentioned at the official Axure Facebook page.

  • David Carson on Design + Discovery

    The guy who broke all the rules of traditional typography, gave grunge typography an identity of its own, Raygun art direcrtor, David Carson walks through a gorgeous (and often quite funny) slide deck of his work and found images. About David Carson David Carson’s boundary-breaking typography in the 1990s, in Ray Gun magazine and other…