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…gibt uns Kim Cullen in ihrem Artikel an die Hand.

It’s a common challenge in visual design: creating a feedback structure that respects the subjective nature of visual design, yet also generates actionable items for moving forward. In reviews, clients need to know that their opinions are heard and the design team needs to walk away confident that they have clear next steps.

Below are a few of the tips and tricks that the visual designers at Adaptive Path use to manage effective client reviews. When talking to clients about the more subjective aspects of visual design, we’ve found these techniques help frame the conversation and lead to more productive feedback.

→ Adaptive Path – Managing Productive Visual Design Reviews

There’s a new kind of clutter littering Web pages. It’s not just the obnoxious “Refinance your mortgage” ads plastered atop and alongside articles. It’s also not just the animated nonsense that floats by as you’re trying to read.

It’s the article itself.

In the never-ending quest to get page views, the choices writers and editors are making to attract eyeballs and drive traffic are creating a new breed of low-brow, gimmicky disposable content.

→ Richard Ziade – The new Clutter

Die ACM hat wieder ein paar Artikel der aktuellen interactions ins Netz gestellt:

• interactions: Business, Culture, and Society
  Jon Kolko
• Reframing health to embrace design of our own wellbeing
  Rajiv Mehta, Shelley Evenson, Paul Pangaro, Hugh Dubberly
• Depth over breadth: designing for impact locally, and for the long haul
  Emily Pilloton
• Solving the world’s problems through design
  Nadav Savio
• Natural user interfaces are not natural
  Don Norman
• Making face: practices and interpretations of avatars in everyday media
  Liz Danzico
• The Ubiquitous and Increasingly Significant Status Message
  Bernard J. Jansen, Abdur Chowdury, Geoff Cook
• Back to the Future: Bleeding-edge IVR
  Ahmed Bouzid, Weiye Ma
• Intentional communication: expanding our definition of user experience design
  Kristina Halvorson
• Content strategy for everybody (even you)
  Karen McGrane
• interactions cafe: on language and potential
  Jon Kolko

Viel Spaß beim Schmökern wünsche ich.

Die ACM hat die März/April-Ausgabe ihres Interactions Magazins herausgegeben und war so gut, wieder ein paar Artikel für lau ins Netz zu stellen:

• Exploring Aspects of Design Thinking
  Richard Anderson, Jon Kolko
• Evolution of the Mind: A Case for Design Literacy
  Chris Pacione
• Design Thinking in Stereo: Brown and Martin
  Paula Thornton
• Designing Interactions at Work: Applying Design to Discussions, Meetings and Relationships
  Roger Martin, Jennifer Riel
• From Davis to David: Lessons from Improvisation
  Liz Danzico
• Technology First, Needs Last: The Research-Product Gulf
  Don Norman

Viel Spaß beim Schmökern wünsche ich.

Die ACM hat die Januar / Februar Ausgabe des Interactions Magazins veröffentlicht.

Die folgenden Artikel der Ausgabe sind vollständig online verfügbar:

• Tangible Interaction = Form + Computing
  Mark Baskinger, Mark Gross
• Why Marketing Research Makes Us Cringe
  Dan Formosa
• Why Designers Sometimes Make Me Cringe
  Klaus Kaasgaard
• The Transmedia Design Challenge: Technology that is Pleasurable and Satisfying
  Don Norman
• The Art of Editing: The New Old Skills for a Curated Life
  Liz Danzico
• interactions Cafe: On Designers as Catalytic Agents
  Richard Anderson, Jon Kolko

Damit solltet ihr genug Lesestoff für Heute haben. Morgen gibt es ein Video, versprochen.