Archive for October 2007

26 Oct 2007 0838H

Perceptive Pixel

Got a link to the Perceptive Pixel site from the old Viant alumni list. Gestures, stacks, the whole gamut. Kinda makes you want to shift gears and become a technologist-designer, a very rare combination of talent, skill, and wisdom. In saying that, I suppose all technologists are designers to a degree, but to be able [...]

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23 Oct 2007 1121H

Artifacts during the visual communications design process

So the other day I ran into discussion about several different kinds of design artifacts, namely, mood boards, theme boards, and design keys. What are these things, when do we use them, why, how, who, blah blah blah? To understand the contexts which forced these artifacts into being, we need to step back and remember [...]

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21 Oct 2007 2250H

Corporate politics still impacts information architecture

I said this a year ago, but I didn’t really realize what the implications were until I interacted with more clients, big ones, small ones, and our own operations. And the fact of the matter really is even now in post-dotcom boom-crash, post-Dougie Coupland, Web 2.0+ Land that people within all kinds of organizations tackling [...]

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11 Oct 2007 0746H

On personas, part 2

Last time we talked about personas and why we use them. This time we’ll talk about what ought to go into a persona. It’s commonly believed that the persona is little more than a made-up name, a picture of the person, and a little story that goes into the context surrounding usage of something, but [...]

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