Posts about ‘Usability’
Dec
5Designing for Flex: Part 6 now online
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Posted: 5th December 2007
Tags: Flex Usability
Posted in Flex, Usability
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Hot on the heals of Part5: Designing Content Displays, Rob Adams has just posted up the next chapter of his excellent designing for flex articles, titled Part 6:Guiding with motion to the Adobe Flex Developer Center: Flex Interface Guide. If you have not read the other five parts, check them out first.
This chapter covers:
- The differences between motion design in Flex applications and motion design in other mediums.
- How to use motion to leverage users’ instinctual understanding of the physical world to enhance your application’s usability.
- How to use screen to screen transitions to help guide users to the next area of interest and make it clear how to return.
- How to use motion effects to provide feedback and focus your users’ attention.
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Nov
26Conducting DIY User Reseach
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Posted: 26th November 2007
Tags: DIY, User Research
Posted in Usability
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Leisa Reichelt has posted up an interesting presentation on DIY guerrilla User Research which is well worth a look. I have embedded her slideshow below.
She points out that no matter how small the budget, even a small amount of User Research can pay off in a big way. She goes through some of the techniques used by Interaction Designers when conducting research and some invaluable tips on conducting and writing interviews, it is well worth a look:
View Leisa’s Presentation on slide share.
Nov
15Using a plain Flex UI theme to show clients before styling
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Posted: 15th November 2007
Tags: Flex, prototyping, Usability, wireframe
Posted in Flex, Usability
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The default Flex 2 Aeon theme looks fairly polished and showing it to clients in the early stages of a project can have it’s disadvantages. For example a client may believe the project is closer to release than it is or if you use Adobe Flex for prototyping may believe that the default theme represents the final look and feel.
If you intend to customise the chrome of a flex app, showing a client the default look and feel not only leads the client into a false expectation of the finish product but, if the app is purely a prototype, may make a case for it being used for the foundation of production code or prevent an further exploration in to the visual design.
Ted Patrick has provided an excellent technique to overcome this.
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Nov
14Designing for Flex: Part 5 now online
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Posted: 14th November 2007
Tags: Flex, Usability
Posted in Flex, Usability
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Hi All,
Just a quick post. Rob Adams has just posted up the next installment of his excellent designing for flex articles, titled Part 5: Designing Content Displays to the Adobe Flex Developer Center: Flex Interface Guide. If you have not read the other four parts, check them out first.
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Nov
5FIG: User Experience Design resource for Adobe Flex
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Posted: 5th November 2007
Tags: Flex, Interaction Design, Usability, User Centered Design
Posted in Flex, Usability
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Back in September, Adobe released a new section to the Flex Developer Center, called FIG or Flex Interface Guide. This is an excellent resource for anyone involved in the Interaction Design (IxD) or User Experience (Ux) of RIAs or any developers who want to make more user focussed apps. There are several articles still in draft about designing for Flex. One of the upcoming articles that will be particularly of interest and relevance to the new possibilities of designing RIAs is the use of motion, as a tool to guide users.
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Sep
6Live Validation - Cross Platform, Rails style validation on the client.
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Posted: 6th September 2007
Tags: Javascript, php, Ruby on Rails, UI Design, Web Design, web development
Posted in Javascript, Ruby on Rails, Usability
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I came across a great new validation library the other day which I wanted to share with you all. Live Validation by Alec Hill is a cross-platform client-side JavaScript validation framework which provides real-time feedback to the user as they type.
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