http://anidealforliving.co.uk/temp/MMU-PET-Prez-Feb2012.pdf

Hope I did “the cause” justice

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_screen_readers

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/26/the-vampire-diaries-and-microsoft-team-up-try-to-add-binged/

http://www.slideshare.net/QuiffBoy/pet-designing-for-persuasion-emotion-and-trust

“When designed early and often enough, prototypes generate context and questions in time for an agile team to answer their challenges. As those who design experiences, we must promote prototyping as a part of the design process in order to iteratively improve the experiences we create.”

Prototyping early allows the entire team to offer feedback on proposed solutions. This team input means that you’re getting views and experience from different domains, in addition to having several fresh pairs of eyes look over things.

I’ve seen this approach yield some really good results very early in a project’s lifecycle, providing simple, well considered, and above all workable solutions to potentially complex challenges.

Nice article

For those not in the know, essentially:

User stories (derived from agile development practices) are short statements that include the role of the user and the activity they wish to perform: the achievement of some goal, in the context of some constraint. They articulate the future system from the perspective of those who will use it (see examples below). Personas and scenarios provide supporting background and context.

It talks about the need to translate our traditional interface design learnings to designing for new “Natural UI” (Multitouch) paradigms, such as the iPhone & iPad, and how we can re-use/update our existing UX assets to cover these new interaction paradigms.

There’s also an amusing section on handing over a UX prototype to production, which echoes a lot of my own experiences!

It’s a good, thought-provoking read.

http://blog.codecomputerlove.com/2010/04/06/mouse-gestures-are-they-the-future/

Thanks

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