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Schwächen des UX

Lennart — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 20:02:41 +0000

…legt Bruce Sterling böse lächelnd bei seiner Abschlussrede zur Interactions 11 dar.

Seine Spitzen treffen und regen zum Nachdenken an.

Jason Fried über Design

Lennart — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 11:19:40 +0000

One of my favorite things about designing software is that you can fuck something up real bad, but you’re always just a couple undos, redos, or tweaks away from a better solution. It’s amazing what a few steps forward or backwards can get you. Things can snap into place or out of place so quickly.

Jason Fried

Don Norman über Komplexität

Lennart — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 10:05:02 +0000

“[Wir brauchen] komplexe Werkzeuge, nicht komplizierte! Komplizierte Dinge sind “verwirrend komplex”. Komplexe Dinge, die wir nicht verstehen, sind kompliziert. Heute geht es darum, komplexe Dinge verständlich zu machen. Verständlichkeit ist das Ziel!”

Das Zitat (und den dazugehörigen Artikel) habe ich beim Aufräumen wieder gefunden. Lesenswert.

Haben Interaktionsdesigner (einen eigenen) Stil?

Lennart — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 15:34:11 +0000

“Perhaps instead of individual styles, interaction designers have a collective style. Perhaps interaction designers are the anonymous craftsmen, the Shaker furniture makers of the digital era. Individual style in interaction design would only ensure users of a quality interaction, after all, and most people can already tell a good interaction from a bad one [...]. Many people can probably also tell great interaction design from good. And perhaps that’s enough.”

→ Dan Saffer: Style in Interaction Design

Get a grip!

Lennart — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:33:46 +0000

To my designer peers: Step back. Take a breath. Get a grip. Look around. Reevaluate.

by Eric E. Anderson

Ich befolge den Rat des Kollegen und bin die nächsten zwei Wochen im Urlaub.
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Wir bitten um Ihr Verständnis

Lennart — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:01:56 +0000

“thank you for your patience” often translates to “we are wasting your time by design”

by Scott Berkun

Microsoft Says It Won’t Abandon Windows Mobile 6.5

Lennart — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 08:11:38 +0000

Not to worry, customers are abandoning it for them.

sagt John Gruber

Jakob Nielsen: Anybody can do Usability

Lennart — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 06:01:48 +0000

Usability is like cooking: everybody needs the results, anybody can do it reasonably well with a bit of training, and yet it takes a master to produce a gourmet outcome.

One of the discount usability movement’s basic tenets is that we need a drastic expansion in the amount of usability work done in the world, and to make this happen we need more people to take on usability assignments.

→ Jakob Nielsen – Anybody Can Do Usability

UX is still undervalued

Lennart — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 06:41:11 +0000

User experience is everything. It always has been, but it’s still undervalued and under-invested in. If you don’t know user-centered design, study it. Hire people who know it. Obsess over it. Live and breathe it. Get your whole company on board. Better to iterate a hundred times to get the right feature right than to add a hundred more.

Twitter CEO Evan Williams (via inspireUX)

The Interaction Designer Stockholm Syndrome

Lennart — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 07:15:11 +0000

Working closely with developers may result in some kind of interaction designer stockholm syndrome – you begin to show signs of loyalty to the twisted back-end/machine logic instead of being the users advocate. You start thinking along some established “rails” instead of thinking out-of-the-box. If that happens, a good design examples therapy is needed fast.

by mobiface