If you love simple design you will love Dieters philosophy. Few living designers command the cult following of Dieter Rams. The 79-year-old and his ethos of functional simplicity continue to inspire today’s crop of design purists, including Jasper Morrison, Konstantin Grcic, Sam Hecht, and of course, Apple’s Jonathan Ive. read more
What is User-Interface Design, User Experience Design and Usability (U3)? Like the three blind men holding different parts of the elephant, one at the trunk, one at the leg and one on the back; it is the same beast being observed from different positions. U3 is much like that! let’s start off with some definitions [...]
Agile’s Not a Methodology, It’s a Way of Life Do you want more control over your software development process? Do you want to be able to be able to change direction quickly? How about shuffling requirements around or adding and removing requirements as appropriate? Do you want to improve your team motivation? If you answered [...]
they say your issue is your gift! If that’s true, then mine’s the requirements elicitation process when developing software. Traditional methods are time consuming, abstract and not suitable for business stakeholders. They can understand the individual requirements, but they find it difficult visualising the entire working solution. the problem with abstractions The problem with abstractions [...]
Fantastic book for those starting out their IT business. Gets you straight on what you need to focus on and what you need to ignore. Regardless of whether you’re involved in a web-based business or a “bricks and mortar” business, the concepts are transferrable to any industry or type of business. This book is for [...]
Lao Tzu: A Journey of a Thousand Miles must begin with a single step. Lao Tzu was a Chinese Taoist Philosopher who lived between 600 and 300 BC. He is attributed with the writing of the “Tao-Te Ching,” (roughly translated as “the way of the use of all life by the life of men). He [...]
Build the User Interface, Reverse Engineer the Requirements Since 1989 I’ve been involved in building software from various aspects of the process and I can say that I’ve been part of a large variety of approaches. The one thing that always seems to be missing or done too late is the User Interface Architecture or [...]
Static Designs Just Don’t Cut it I was recently contracted to trial the process of architecting a UI in line with eliciting 80% requirements for a program of work (ie. multiple projects). A Sydney design agency had already been engaged by our Sydney marketing team for a small part of the program and I was [...]
Keep Your Design Principles Simple Wow, there’s so much to say about the principles of web design! Where do you start, finish and how do you know you’ve covered what’s really important? I’m getting to be the master at working in 5-15 minute intervals and grown fond of the 80/20 rule in order to best match [...]
