CURRENT ISSUE

Past issues

ISSUE 22 - Q2 2007
Visio - the interaction designer's nail gun (3rd edition)

ISSUE 21 - Q1 2007
The dark side of prototyping

ISSUE 20 - Q4 2006
Prototyping beyond the sunshine scenario

ISSUE 19 - Q3 2006
Hand-crafting prototypes in Visio

ISSUE 18 - Q2 2006
Review of Axure RP Pro

ISSUE 17 - Q1 2006
Visio - the interaction designer's nail gun (2nd edition)

ISSUE 16 - Q4 2005
The promised land of prototyping

ISSUE 15 - Q3 2005
Balancing fidelity in prototyping

ISSUE 14 - Q2 2005
Designing intersection flows

ISSUE 13 - Q1 2005
Navigation blindness

ISSUE 12 - Q4 2004
Server side usability

ISSUE 11 - Q3 2004
GoLive - the interaction designer's hammer and nail

ISSUE 10 - Q2 2004
Use Cases and interaction design

ISSUE 09 - Q1 2004
Accessibility humanized

ISSUE 08 - Q4 2003
Balancing visual and structural complexity in interaction design

ISSUE 07 - Q3 2003
Personas and the customer decision-making process

ISSUE 06 - Q2 2003
Supporting customers' decision-making process

ISSUE 05 - Q1 2003
Business-centred design

ISSUE 04 - Q4 2002
InfoRomanticism on the Internet

ISSUE 03 - Q3 2002
Results from a survey of web prototyping tools usage
Visio - the interaction designer's nail gun

ISSUE 02 - Q2 2002
The Bottom-line of Prototyping and Usability Testing

ISSUE 01 - Q1 2002
Competitive Usability

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RECENT posts

How to save a million dollars on usability

Close your eyes and wish real hard that the users won't care...

Links:

• See the Dilbert 

Henrik Olsen - September 04, 2008

See also: Cartoons (13) 

Messy interfaces for repeated use and efficiency

Ryan from 37signals has written an interesting post on the trade-off between populating interfaces with many features to improve efficiency versus distributing them over more screens to make them easier to digest.

Referring to Edward Tufte, Ryan explains the dilemma as a question of having information displayed adjacent in space or stacked in time. He concludes that while screens with low complexity gives the eye less to filter through, separating elements onto different screens reduces the need for navigation and makes it easier to move attention from one element to another.

Links:

• Learning from "bad" UI 
• My article on balancing visual and structural complexity in interface design 

Henrik Olsen - September 01, 2008

See also: Web page design (35)  Simplicity vs. capability (6) 

More magnetic interface widgets

Not long ago, GuiMags brought the magnetic interface widgets for whiteboard prototyping back. Now a competitor, GUIMagnets, has entered the marked with magnets that seem to be a bit cheaper (if you can do without the case that comes with GuiMags).

Links:

• GUIMagnets 
• Previous post about GuiMags 

Henrik Olsen - August 24, 2008

See also: Tools (80)  Prototyping and wireframing (69) 

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