Design Thinking
A few posts about Design thinking, the best ways of creating a human-centered approach to innovation, product discovery and development based on an understanding of the customer’s needs.
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Phase Three Service Design. Mash up Tools?
Thinking about Designing Platforms We are all designing complex digital platforms, in a harsh environment, with a large number of stakeholders and contributors. How are the tools that we have evolving to meet our needs? Do your tools change as your project evolves or are you stuck with the same customer journey map through out…
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Ideal Mix – thoughts on the UX design process
Introduction The explosion of management theory in the 1990’s as pointed out in ‘One market under God’ by Thomas Frank, has created a situation where every one has a better theory than the previous person. This makes me nervous about writing a few posts about UX processes. So I don’t want them to be too…
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Visual Analysis 1924
Nearly a hundred years ago, from 1924 to 1927, Kazimir Malevich was using charts to explore art styles, movements and techniques. When I saw the charts at his Tate modern retrospective in 2014 they reminded me of so much of my professional work. Where rather than trying to create understanding through words and reports, as…
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Code is poetry
With a corporate bank there are many conflicting sources of design and creative direction. So having gathered the users needs, understood the sites objectives, discussed the functional specifications and content requirements the project has to navigate through the corporations design culture. This culture is always changing, like a river.
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Material Designs
Google has announced a new design language for Android’s UI design. Matias Duarte, the head of Android design at Google, talks through Android L design features, creating a new design language called Material. I have pulled out my highlights from his talk. The stand out was the trouble they had taken to create delightful animations to…
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How I learned to like UX again….
Another chatty post from the coal face. Rather serendipitously I came across this blog post whilst looking for the very famous tree swing problem. Which is a great internet meme/illustration of how your deliverables go wrong.
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