Apparently I made a fatal blogger mistake in my last post. I asked some questions, but I didn’t answer them. I was hoping to provoke some thoughtful discussion, but apparently asking questions and then not giving answers can annoy people a little. Right, I’ll remember that next time!
Blog Archives
Jun
15
2010
Motivation, Stickiness, and Websites
I came across this video through Twitter on Monday. I don’t remember now who tweeted it, but thank you whoever it was! It was done by Cognitive Media for a Dan Pink talk at RSA in London.
If you’ve been involved in making websites for several years, like I have, I’m sure you know about many of the best practices involved. In fact, it’s usually easy to pick out websites that were done by amateurs because of obvious violations of said best practices.
Nov
05
2009
Balsamiq Mockups Review
A few weeks ago… Er, more than a few weeks ago, I posted a blog post on why designers should use wireframes. I have always used Photoshop to do more formal wireframes for client sites, but wanted to give Balsamiq a try since I first heard about it. They were gracious enough to give me a copy to review. By the way, they are incredibly friendly and fast responding.
Doing a wireframe before each web site design is a crucial step. Actually, it’s more than crucial. Let’s put it this way, I divide my own work into two distinct periods. The “before the wireframing phase” and the “after I discovered the glorious virtues of wireframing” phase. I do one now for every single project, even the most basic ones.
