October 2011
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Clients From Hell: Neurotic restaurant... →
clientsfromhell:
Client: “The act is up, man.” Me: “The act is up on…?” Client: “You could at least have given us a fair price, if you were going to outsource the website work overseas.” Me: “Okay. Two steps back. What are you talking about?” Client: “We’re talking about the little scheme you’ve been…
August 2011
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June 2011
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Daily Pic Pick
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May 2011
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April 2011
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OS Event Creation in Mail – Little Tweaks →
I discussed how we could improve the user experience of creating an event directly in the Mail app on the iPad and iPhone.
What do you guys think?
Anonymous asked: you're hot.
Anonymous asked: Why are you single?
Hello
Alright!
How are you guys?!
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Watch
February 2011
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Any suggestions on depicting a homescreen/desktop...
January 2011
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Change in Focus: Playability to Profitability →
iosuserexperience:
The App Store only launched two and a half years ago, however there aren’t many apps that have been around since the beginning. Tap Tap Revenge is an exception though; it’s history is rooted in the jailbreak scene before the App Store was even released.
Recently Tapulous released the 4th version of the popular iOS game, Tap Tap Revenge 4 and I thought it would be interesting...
December 2010
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September 2010
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August 2010
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iOS User Experience Blog →
I have just restarted my other Tumblr site that discusses iPhone and iPad user experience.
The latest post talks about Camera+ and discusses how it has designed taking photographs inefficiently.
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WatchYesterday, I discussed my paper prototyping article at the August meetup of Brum IxDA and we ended up talking about how Keynote and PowerPoint can be used to prototype UIs quickly and effectively.
Here is a video of a UI prototype that I developed for an assignment in my 2nd year. I utilised Keynote to create the UI and transitions.
The task was to create a kiosk system for students in all the...
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August Brum IxDA Meetup Arrangements →
On the 19th August, the Brum IxDA will be meeting at the Sack of Potatoes pub on Gosta Green.
We shall meet between 6pm - 7pm for food; ready for a 7pm start.
The theme for this month’s meetup is UX Show and Tell. Bring along a deliverable or something you’ve been working on recently to share with the group. We can’t wait to see what you bring!
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Jerome Turner's Notes from the July Brum IxDA... →
Future meetings
We’re interested to hear from or have talks by people who might come from unusual design practies, to talk about how they make their products’ usable’, and what ‘user experience’ means to them. This is significant given Birmingham’s strength in design areas such as jewellery, and the fact many disciplines of design / art are taught at BIAD.
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youdontlisten asked: I would like an IDEO cash machine please
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UX Q&A Session on The Guardian website →
The Guardian are hosting a panel of user experience experts tomorrow (6th August 2010) on their website at 1pm.
This is a great opportunity to learn more about the profession.
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Paper Prototyping for Mobile Devices →
UX Booth have just uploaded my guest post to their website. It discusses how paper prototyping can be adapted to suit the new mobile touchscreen age.
Prototyping is key to any successful design. Paper prototyping is usually the first step, but does it fit into a world where mobile devices are king? Yes, but not using the conventional method. Combine the physicality of the device and the power of...
July 2010
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“Only two industries describe their customers as “users”, computer...”
– Edward Tufte - http://twitter.com/keithie/status/19353671106
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Ask me anything →
Go on … I dare you!
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Brum IxDA Reboot
Yesterday evening I attended Birmingham’s IxDA’s July meetup. While it was more of a social event at a pub, we discussed several ideas that we want to implement in future meetings. We will be doing more design challenges as well as hopefully getting speakers in to discuss topics related to the creative industries.
Due to many reasons, I had missed a couple of the previous meetups and...
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Heuristic Evaluation on Deadball Specialist HD →
Recently I conducted a very short heuristic evaluation on Full Fat Games‘ Deadball Specialist HD (iTunes Link) for iPad.
View the results document on Scribd.
View the methodology and results document on Scribd.
June 2010
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“I say boycott all British newspapers that drew reference to the second world war...”
– London Life: A call for a boycott.
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User Centered Design Process →
This report discusses and implements a user centred design (UCD) approach for developing pervasive computing solutions. Designing a solution to provide a more engaging in-store experience for customers of a high street clothing store, this study analyses different methods and techniques utilised by UCD and implements an iterative prototyping and evaluation procedure.
Skills Utilised:
Interviews
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Improve your chances of a job in UX →
Recently on Twitter, I asked @Foolproof_UX the following question:
What do you suggest students do to improve their chances at getting UX jobs?! (Original Tweet)
They were very kind, and created an entire blog post answering my question. I hope their hints and tips help you!
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May 2010
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Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows:... →
A great article from Paul Thurrott about what the iPad is and what it doesn’t compete with.