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Lesenswertes vom 28.10.2011 – Präsentationen und Vorträge

Maxi — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 05:01:13 +0000

How to give great presentations | Adfero Group
"We’ve all seen horrible presentations. Most of us have probably given a few in our day. But in the professional world, public speaking is an unavoidable fact of life. [...] In reminiscing on the truly awful presentations I’ve seen, I came up with 4 basic pitfalls that can doom any public speaker."
No more slides | Oliver Reichenstein
"While reading a speech from paper is widely frowned upon, it is not only accepted that people use slides for support, it's expected that you show something visual when you speak. This fairly new practice is justified with old cliches like "a picture says more than a thousand words." The truth is: If we prepare properly we don't need PowerPoint."
4 things your upcoming conference presentation really oughtta be | Cooper Journal
"After years of doing this, I’ve come to group these successes and failures into four big criteria that every conference presentation ought to have. I’m going to share them with you now in the hopes that a) I’m right and b) more presentations will fall into the “awesome” rather than “regrettable” category."

Dann habe ich schon mal was, woran ich mich für meinen World Usability Day Vortrag halten kann.

Lesenswertes vom 18.10.2011 – Rund um Design Patterns

Maxi — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 10:49:17 +0000

Why have a design pattern library? | dezining interactions
"At some point or another in a company’s lifecycle the interaction design team may find themselves seriously outnumbered. […] Whatever the issue, it’s usually at this point that someone on the team will think about an interaction design pattern library.
So You Wanna Build a Library, Eh? | Boxes and Arrows
"The following article is an abridged version of Chapter 7 of Nathan Curtis’s 2009 book, Modular Web Design published by New Riders."
The power of patterns: Bridging IA, design and development | non-linear thinking
"Patterns are infinitely useful to interaction designers and programmers thanks to their reusability and the implicit knowledge sharing of tried-and-true solutions. Where they really become valuable though is in the sweet spot where they are paired with stencils and code."
What is the best way to explain the value of interface guidelines and interaction design patterns to upper management? | Quora
Eine Reihe von spannenden Antworten.

Lesenswertes vom 12.10.2011 – The Case against Responsive Web Design

Maxi — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 05:01:13 +0000

Nachdem ich viel Positives über Responsive Web Design gepostet habe ([1], [2], [3]), hier ein paar kritische Stimmen zu dem Thema:

11 Reasons why responsive web design isn’t that cool! | WebDesignShock
"Every proposal must have some weak points and this, as a “new one”, shouldn’t be considered the solution to the world’s problems. In the heat of the moment, not many people stop and think about the downside, the mistakes and the compatibility issues this proposal may have; and this is actually very normal. In the end, we’re just starting to know how this thing works, right?"
CSS Media Query for Mobile is Fool’s Gold | Cloud Four
"Unfortunately, CSS media query is fool’s gold for mobile devices. It hides tough problems and gives developers a false promise of a simple solution for designing to multiple screens."
Responsive Web Design or Separate Mobile Site? Eh. It Depends. | Global Moxie
"In the mobile world, we have the persistent and circular debate over whether the mobile web should be powered by the very same sites and webpages that render the desktop web. Savvy CSS media queries, beautifully explained as “responsive web design” by Ethan Marcotte, can transform any webpage into device-specific layouts tailored for any device. But should they? Strong opinions sally forth."

Mobile Web Design Best Practices

Lennart — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:21:53 +0000

Der Inhalt der Webseite ist noch überschaubar – aber das wird bestimmt noch mehr…

Lesenswertes vom 03.10.2011 – Agile & UX

Maxi — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 20:42:10 +0000

Does Agile move too fast for Usability? | Demystifying Usability
"In this post I will show you how teams are coping with the marriage of Agile and UX and how Agile development teams are managing to make time for UX to keep the relationship from going on the rocks."
UX Meets Agile: Design Studio Methodology | Edge of Chaos | Agile Development Blog
"Design Studio is a quite simple and efficient way to run UX meetings. Yesterday we tried it for the first time."
The Future of Agile Software Development
"No one knows the exact how-to of writing great software fast, that’s the problem. Waterfall passed away at the crossing of 2 centuries, whereas new software development methodologies (agile) fail at solving the fundamental problems so far. We’re living in very interesting times."

Lesenswertes vom 24.09.2011 – Windows Phone Ressources

Maxi — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 05:01:42 +0000

Designing Metro style apps | Windows Dev Center
"When planning your Metro style app, think less about what features you want to include and more about what experience you want to provide your users. If you haven't already, you might want to read more about Metro style apps in What are Metro style apps?"
Using the design checklist | Windows Dev Center
"You can use this handy checklist to be sure you're covering what you need to create a great Metro style app."
Designing for your brand | Windows Dev Center
"Think about the message you want to send your users when they see your Metro style app in the store, when they see it on their Start screen, when they first launch it, and when they are using it. Take advantage of these opportunities to define and promote your brand in the visual design of your app."
20 Free Prototyping, Mockup and Wireframing Resources for Windows Phone 7 | MicrosoftFeed
Wie der Name schon sagt…

Lesenswertes vom 22.09.2011 – Responsive Web Design

Lennart — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 05:01:59 +0000

Hier die spannendsten Links zum Thema Response Web Design.

Responsive Web Design | A List Apart
In diesem Artikel stellt Ethan erstmals das Konzept vor.
Responsive Web Design: What It Is and How To Use It | Smashing Magazine
"But responsive Web design is not only about adjustable screen resolutions and automatically resizable images, but rather about a whole new way of thinking about design. Let’s talk about all of these features, plus additional ideas in the making."
21 top tools for responsive web design | .net magazine
"To get started with building a responsive site, having a strong toolkit can make a world of difference. Here Denise Jacobs rounds up 21 great tools to aid the process of making your sites responsive."
Thoughts On Developing A Responsive Design Workflow | Van SEO Design
"Print design has the physical constraint of the canvas. The format is fixed. The situation is different on the web. We can’t know in advance exactly how someone will view our sites. We don’t have a fixed canvas. We need to create websites with the ability to adapt and respond."
Media Queries
"…a collection of sites using media queries."
A Book Apart, Responsive Web Design
…und last but not least das Buch von Ethan zu dem Thema.

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Lesenswertes vom 08.09.2011 – Esslinger, Ives und Jobs

Lennart — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 16:15:50 +0000

Noch mal zwei ganz nette Artikel rund ums Thema Apple und Steve Jobs.

Apple designer Jonathan Ive enters a new era | LA Times
"The synergy between 'Jony' Ive and Steve Jobs set into motion a decade of hits from the iPod to the iPad. Now Apple will be counting on Ive to deliver breakthrough designs without much input from Jobs."
Apple-Designer Esslinger: "Er führt ehrlich" | ZEIT ONLINE
"Der legendäre Apple-Designer Hartmut Esslinger über seine Beziehung zu Steve Jobs und den Plan, der die Kultmarke einst vor dem Scheitern rettete."

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Lesenswertes vom 05.09.2011 – Apple & Steve

Lennart — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 07:01:47 +0000

Hier ein paar der netten Artikel, die ich in den letzten Tagen über Steve Jobs und Apple gelesen habe.

How Jobs made Apple fit for the future – FT.com
To discover the useful lessons of Mr Jobs’s managerial legacy, it is worth depersonalising the company he has built. For instance, Apple is not really one company, but three very different organisations lashed together and devastatingly fit for purpose.
Steve Jobs: America’s Greatest Failure – Nick Schulz | National Review Online
Lots of digital ink will be spilled about Jobs in the coming days, most of it focusing on his truly marvelous successes. It’s better to focus on his failures. […] I don’t mean learn from their mistakes. I mean learn from their abject, humiliating, bonehead, epic fails.
The Steve Jobs Difference | vanderwal.net
I have had the fortune of chatting with people at Apple in the cafe, being invited to speak to them, and pulled aside at events by a couple groups at Apple to "chat about some things" that lasted a few hours. These glimpses inside left me in greater awe of not only Apple and its very different and secret way of doing things, but of Jobs himself.

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Lesenswertes vom 28.08.2011 – Mobile UX

Lennart — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 15:54:38 +0000

Mobile websites, management, and Long Tail content | Bob Johnson’s Blog
At least 50 percent of the content on higher education websites […] is of little importance to most of the people using that site. […] Nobody is going to create a truly friendly mobile web environment if they try to convert all their present website content to a "mobile friendly" status.
On Mobile Context | Cloud Four
The question of mobile context has plagued me. In January 2009, I wrote about the “On the Go” Myth?. Therefore, it doesn’t surprise me to see very smart people grappling with mobile context and coming to the conclusion that “mobile context has been overblown.
So given my previous doubts about mobile context, you’d think I would find it easy to agree with the current meme that mobile context doesn’t exist. And yet when I read posts and tweets that argue that there is no mobile web, I find myself disagreeing.

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