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  • Workflow Design - Using User Interface Design Conventions
    At the beginning users naturally have low level of commitment it is better to first build up credibility. Asking for too much information about users is perfect example of the need for progressive disclosure.
    Posted: 2011-08-19
    Category: Software
  • Niehaus Wireframes and the Art of User Interface Design
    Where the main wireframing tools were paper and pen, hence the term paper prototyping, wireframing software allowed user interface designers create UI designs their computer.
    Posted: 2011-08-12
    Category: Software
  • Skeuomorphic User Interface Design: What is skeuomorphic user interface design?
    By definition a skeuomorph is a derivative object that is designed in such way as to retain the structure of the original object as such skeuomorphs tend to feature purely decorative elements are made to resemble design or structure of elements that were essential in the original.
    Posted: 2011-08-09
    Category: Software
  • Spiral Design - What is spiral design?
    The spiral design process is a long and arduous process that is best used for systems that are already in place and need an overhaul.
    Posted: 2011-08-02
    Category: Software
  • Extreme Programming - What is extreme programming?
    The hallmark benefit of extreme programming is customer satisfaction and an efficient user interface design based on an intensive level of stakeholder collaboration.
    Posted: 2011-07-25
    Category: Software
  • Parallel Design - How does it relate to user interface design
    The parallel design process leaves a lot of room for flexibility. Parallel design is a guiding ideal and does not come with a strict set of procedural guidelines to follow. Still, parallel design does come with a protocol that serves to facilitate the creativity and independence of user interface designers.
    Posted: 2011-07-15
    Category: Software
  • Enterprise Social Networking
    Enterprise social networking facilitates the relationships between people with similar business interests and/or activities through the use of online social networks, much like the collaborative approach of the wireframing software Pidoco. This is typically done by employing enterprise social software: software that is used in business/commercial contexts.
    Posted: 2011-06-18
    Category: Software
  • Wireframing into the future
    Now, wireframes are usually sketches of the website, with the functional elements blended into the image. These days, most web designers use coded HTML wireframes to produce visual prototypes of their websites.
    Posted: 2011-05-30
    Category: Software
  • Rapid Application Development as a User Interface Design Method
    Rapid application development was introduced as a software design method in 1991 by James Martin, an IT consultant and Pulitzer Prize nominated author.
    Posted: 2011-05-20
    Category: Software
  • Mental Models in Human Computer Interaction
    In the words of Kenneth Craik mental models are representations in the mind of real or imaginary situations.
    Posted: 2011-05-03
    Category: Computer
  • Finding the happy medium: Combining Agile Development and UX Design
    Thus, it is important to try and find a happy medium between the two. In this article I will define the two approaches and then try to show how to create a happy development medium between the two.
    Posted: 2011-04-21
    Category: Software
  • Multimodal HCI in User Interface Design
    Multimodal HCI aims to discern the ways in which humans interact with each other in order to translate these processes to the human and computer interaction.
    Posted: 2011-04-11
    Category: Software
  • Niehaus Wireframing Method and Its Importance in User Interface Design
    A Niehaus wireframe is a visually enriched wireframe that codes certain information about the properties of interface elements
    Posted: 2011-04-05
    Category: Software
  • HCI Concepts: The Information Processing Model
    The Information Processing Model derives from the Information Processing Theory, an approach to the study of cognitive development in relation to HCI.
    Posted: 2011-03-31
    Category: Software
  • Wireframing Workshops - Conducting a successful wireframing workshop
    However, wireframing’s ubiquity and esteem do not leave it invulnerable to the snares of the methodological stagnation that often results in poor implementation: bad wireframes.
    Posted: 2011-03-23
    Category: Software