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Lesenswertes vom 10.08.2009 – The Content Edition++

Ich Depp habe eben aus Versehen den gestrigen Post gelöscht. Hier ist die rekonstruierte Version mit noch mehr Content on content.
Viel Spaß beim Weiterklicken…

  • The Content Conundrum – Bridging the gap between design and content | Boxes and Arrows
    “Sure, we have a sense of what content is available, and we’ve likely considered it to some extent when creating flows, wireframes, and prototypes. But the design artifacts that we create represent only part of the overall user experience that we’re designing. The content that sits inside of our design framework is often the final arbiter of success, yet we sometimes diminish its importance and separate ourselves from it. The more we separate our design activities from content development, the greater the risk of design failure.”
  • All intranet content is not the same | Mark Morrell
    “Content on the BT Intranet is divided into four different types, to enable information to be managed appropriately and allow users to separate fact from comment. A fifth category covers services, which are online processes where people do tasks to fulfil their roles.”
  • Content Creation for the 21st Century | Creativity Online
    “Adding a virtual dimension into our physical environments is not a trivial matter. Introducing digital bytes into our building materials is a revolution that is even more significant than fabrication and construction developments in glass, steel and concrete. As the distance between the virtual and physical world collapses, our relationship to our spaces, information and each other changes.”
  • Content Analysis: A Practical Approach | UXmatters
    “To know your content is to love it. Content analysis is an essential part of many UX design projects that involve existing content. [...] You must become familiar with your content to judge whether it’s effective, understand how it relates to other content, make decisions about how to use or format it, identify opportunities for improving it, and more. “
  • The Debut of Usable, Influential Content
    “What happens when we architect a user experience that makes the content easy to find? The content becomes a focus of the experience, a star of the show. If the content performs well, it will have an influence. Users will be more likely to take the action we want them to take, make the decision we want them to make or have the perception we want them to have. Users will be more likely to consider our brand, our product or our idea. Yet we do not treat content like a star. We treat it like an extra, at best.”

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Bewerbung – School of Design Thinking

Wer als Studierender zu den Querdenkern seines Studienfachs gehört, da weiter macht, wo andere aufgeben, gern über den eigenen Tellerrand hinausblickt und interdisziplinäre Teamarbeit liebt, kann sich parallel zu seinem Hauptstudium ein Jahr lang kostenlos in Design Thinking ausbilden lassen. [...]
Die Zusatzausbildung an der “HPI School of Design Thinking” des Potsdamer Hasso-Plattner-Instituts (HPI) richtet sich an Studierende aller Hochschulen, die kurz vor dem Abschluss stehen. Pro Semester werden maximal 40 Studierende angenommen. Die Studiendauer beträgt ein akademisches Jahr. Der erfolgreiche Abschluss wird mit einem Zertifikat bescheinigt. Für die Weiterbildung im “Design Thinking” werden keinerlei Studiengebühren fällig!

Ihr könnt euch noch bis heute bewerben!
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Usability Stellenanzeigen – KW 32

Liebe Zielgruppe, heute habe ich zwei neue Stellenanzeigen für euch, sowie einen Praktikumsplatz und einen Studentenjob. Und drei Stellenanzeigen wurden erneut eingestellt. Viel Erfolg…

Junior-Online-Konzeptioner (m/w) @ fischerAppelt, furore

Sie verfügen idealerweise über ein abgeschlossenes Studium und haben danach ein bis zwei Jahre praktische Erfahrungen in der Konzeption von Webprojekten gesammelt. Sie denken und arbeiten strukturell und analytisch, außerdem haben Sie eine Vorliebe für herausragende Kommunikationsideen. Sie verfügen über nachweisbare Kenntnisse in den Bereichen der interaktiven und multimedialen Marketinganwendungen sowie der integrierten Marketing- und Markenstrategien. Interface Design, Usability und Informationsarchitektur sind keine Fremdwörter für Sie. Sie sind teamfähig, kreativ und begeisterungsfähig.
Gemeinsam mit einem Team entwickeln Sie für unsere Kunden Strategien und Maßnahmen für Online-Projekte. Sie erstellen fachliche Konzepte für interaktive und multimediale Anwendungen. Dabei ist das Spektrum der Projekte sehr vielfältig und reicht von klassischen Bannerkampagnen und Websites bis hin zu Strategien im Bereich Social Media.

(Auszug aus der Stellenanzeige)

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Über Ideation und Zuhören

When a designer is introduced to a project brief through a client presentation, the first ideation skill is for the designer to be able to listen actively. That is, the designer needs to make sense of the client’s needs and desires, asking questions and exploring the client’s reasoning behind the project brief. By understanding how the client’s reasoning was arrived at the designer is in a better postion to make links to his prior knowledge and experience that may help address the client’s concerns. Having applied his listening skills, the designer is then ready to start the ideation process and articulate his response to the brief in a language that is both imaginative and meaningful using an appropirate range of ideation tools.

Ideation and listening skills

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UPA 2010 – Call for Submissions

Liebe Zielgruppe, die UPA wartet auf eure Beiträge für ihre Konferenz in München:

We are looking for a wide range of submissions from regular presentations to full day workshops or informal Idea Markets. If you are doing interesting work or using new methods that you would like to talk about then we are waiting to hear from you. Even if you just have an idea you want to introduce to the UPA community – we have something for everyone. [...]
We are particularly interested in submissions related to our conference theme: Embracing Cultural Diversity: User Experience Design for the World.

Ihr habt bis zum 11.09. Zeit.
Den Termin habe ich auch auf der Termine & Events Seite vermerkt.

Folgende Beitragstypen könnt ihr einreichen:

  • Tutorials
  • Single Day or Evening session
  • Workshops
  • Position Paper
  • 30 Minute Presentations
  • 40 & 90 Minute Presentations
  • Panels
  • Peer Reviewed Papers
  • Posters
  • Idea Markets

Hier gibt es mehr Informationen zu den verschiedenen Beitragstypen.

UPA 2010 – Call of Submission

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Lesenswertes vom 06.08.2009

…sind dieses Mal Links zum Thema Web Usability.

  • 30+ principles to a better landing page design | landing Page Optimization
    "There are four basic components to a successful web page design: Research; Design; Copy and Testing and Modification. It is important to devote adequate resources to each component – they form a chain that is only as strong as the weakest link. [...] But it’s not always that easy to balance each, so we’ve compiled a list of 30 design principles for a better, more successful, web page."
  • 113 Design Guidelines for Homepage Usability | Nielsen Norman Group
    "These design guidelines are excerpted from our book Homepage Usability: 50 Websites Deconstructed which contains more details, including copiously annotated screenshots of 50 homepages."
  • Designing "Read More" And "Continue Reading" Links | Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine
    "Every website has its own way of asking readers to click on an article link. Some websites have very prominent links, others are a bit subtler. Either way, website and user interface designers have thought up some very creative and innovative ways of inviting readers to read on. In this showcase, we will present 45 websites that have excellent “Read more” and “Continue reading” links in their design."
  • 10 Excellent Services To Get Feedback For Your Design Works | Inspired Magazine
    "Everybody wants to receive feedback from friends about their hard work, but sometimes we also need opinions coming from complete strangers, maybe some rough critiques about aspects we might have overlooked. This way we could get some ideas on how to upgrade the work. Here are 10 excellent feedback services you should start using right now."
  • Web Usability Toolkit | UK Central Office of Information
    "The Cabinet Office asked COI to develop usability guidelines for web developers and web content editors across government covering the basics of usability in a way that is engaging and interactive. The aim is to raise awareness of usability issues across government and to improve the quality of government websites.

    The guidelines cover 8 broad themes: Layout and design, Navigation, Writing content, Content elements, Forms, Search, QA and standards, Common pages (e.g. homepage).
    The guidelines contain a total of 21 individual guidance modules ranging from ‘Basics of page layout’ to ‘When and how to use PDFs’."

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