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• 01.20.12
  iPad Sketch Prototype Template Design, prototype, Prototyping, sketching, UX | (0)

  I’ve been doing a bunch of tablet prototyping lately so I thought I’d share with you! Feel free to print, share and use as you wish. Happy creating and look for more prototyping downloads coming soon. Grab the pdf prototype template here.
• 10.24.11
  The Truth About ‘The Lean Start-up’ Design, design process, honesty, prototype, Prototyping, UX | (0)

  My one treat I give myself when I travel is a trip the magazine rack. I stock up on Fast Company (my personal fav), Inc., The Harvard Business Review and when I’m really spoiling myself a Dwell. The October Inc. looked promising, ‘The Lean Start-up’, with Mr. Lean himself, Eric Ries on the cover. And his start-up story has the painfully familiar melody that most of us can relate to. I didn’t have the misfortune of tanking my own venture, but I woefully bared witness to two Titanics destined for the ocean floor. And my work in design and user ...
• 11.18.10
  New Prototyping Sketch Sheets for WP7 Design, prototype, Prototyping, sketching, UX, wp7 | (0)

  Grab the prototype sketch sheet here (pdf). The benefits of testing and prototyping are straight forward and typically instant. If you’re just beginning to generate ideas and share them, physical paper prototypes are wonderful. They’re fast, fun to show and actually better conversation because of their tangible, visceral nature. Besides, I would much prefer playing with a prototype to get the best experience, rather than talking about what we could do. The Windows Phone 7 design system, Metro, leads itself well to paper prototyping. Since the goal of WP7 was an integrated, seamless user experience, a single sheet of paper could represent ...
• 11.09.10
  UX is Game Theory Design, design process, Games, innovate, inspiration, Prototyping, UX | (0)

  Daily product discussions heard around every experience design table; balancing motivations and behavior against the business objectives, reading system and data structure to better understand the needs that drive desired results, dissecting user tasks to make them easier and more satisfying to accomplish, building authentic conversations that reduce the barriers built by the old ranks of business. This is the rather complicated business of design, a business that still seems to be missing key players (I am looking at you CFO, CTO, CEO, COO. Innovation needs you.). Neutral, common ground is needed. Enter the undeniable link between user experience and ...
• 05.03.10
  New Shapes in Expression Blend 4 Blend 4, Design, prototype, Prototyping, Sketchflow | (0)

  There is a bunch of exciting new features in the upcoming version of Blend; bundles of ready-to-use behaviors, transition effects and more ways to add more interactivity with less code. All of which become even more rich with possibilities when you add the bevy of new, sketch style shapes to the mix. In the pursuit of producing, testing and sharing great ideas and interaction to facilitate instant communication and conversation with clients and teammates, this set of form assets is a big help. Adam Kinney posted an overview with tons of details here. The Release Candidate of Blend 4 is ...
• 02.16.10
  What Could Be More Fun Than a Redesign?! Design, inspiration, Prototyping | (0)

  It’s time. So what’s cooking, you may ask? Fun stuff; interviews, special guests, robots,  reviews and, as always, more sketching and prototyping goodies. I will be taking suggestions as well. If there is a topic or idea you would like to hear about, shoot me a DM @ssummers. In the meantime, I will get the new redesign up and going right quick.
• 12.01.09
  Working with Feature Sets and Initial Prototypes innovate, prototype, Prototyping, Sketchflow | (0)

  Quick mockup of a feature list, so feedback and iteration can begin. So you have started a new project, you have a list of features and requests but not much else. Everyone wants to see ideas asap. Seems simple enough, but where do you start? You have sketched a few things out, but the team should have a chance to play around the experience, right? In Sketchflow there are several ways to rapidly explore and test concepts. Above I used the SketchStyles to create some of the features with sample data. Then I made a starter app flow, with a couple of the ...
• 07.10.09
  Did I mention I am writing a book?! Blend 3, Design, design process, innovate, prototype, Prototyping, Sketchflow, sketching | (0)

  A sneak peek at the Dynamic Prototyping cover design. Chris Bernard and I have embarked on a book for designers by designers. This will be a easy hands-on way to jump in and use Sketchflow in Expression Blend 3. We will also be sharing our thoughts on creativity, design process, sketching, idea capture and prototyping. The books website, www.dynamic-prototyping.com has links to a free chapter of the book and everything you need to get started. Let me know what you think : ) Expression Blend 3 has launched, you can test it out here!
• 05.26.09
  Updated Free Sketch Sheets! Design, prototype, Prototyping, sketching | (0)

  You can download the 2 page sketch sheet below. Enjoy! Ahead of the sketching workshop I will be doing in Dallas at the Big Design Conference this week, I made some new sketch sheets to share. It’s 2 pages, one app and one browser sheet. Happy sketching everyone! Download sketch sheet .pdf!
• 05.18.09
  Sketchflow Part 2 – Fast and Easy Interactivity Design, prototype, Prototyping, Sketchflow | (0)

  Navigation wire up in Sketchflow. Note: I trimmed the right click options for clarities sake. Us designers may find ourselves designing a touch or gesture based interface on the fly or being asked to provide interaction in an early prototype for clients. The struggle comes in as we start to tackle expressing and selling a movement or navigation without building the entire experience and spending hours working with the developer to flush out what is actually feasible. Here I have built a simple site project and created several pages to be explored by a client. First I linked my button to its ...

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