The Hidden Army of Workers Responsible for the Huge Success of Google Maps
I never thought about Google Maps much until I saw Luke Wroblewski speak at the UI19 conference in Boston. His talk covered a range of topics, but …read more
Turn off the computer (!) and sketch early in the product design process
Sketching with pencil and paper in the early stages of product design connects us to a familiar, tactile process that unlocks our creativity and gives us a …read more
Designing an iPhone app? Ditch the wireframes
You don’t need extensive wireframes for iPhone apps. Get a solid site map and page flows together, and jump straight into design, you’ll be OK (I promise) …read more
Media Queries for Business apps
While media queries are typically used to handle a site’s transition between different devices and screen sizes, they can also be used to enhance the desktop experience. …read more
Give your customers a vision to aspire to
Understand what your customer aspires to (be / have / produce) and give them a vision that mirrors this. When you and your customer are working towards …read more
Build a better dashboard
Every product starts out as something great, and at some point, some percentage invariably end up as a single-page dashboard. Despite their ubiquity in cars, (single-page) dashboards …read more
Let users design your product
(They’ll do a better job than you) All the objections are true: users don’t have design experience; Steve Jobs said never to ask users what they want; …read more