Just a little bit
Hi, I'm Cameron.
I'm a Devsigner.
One who is skilled in the art of design as well as the science of development.
I've been developing & designing websites for 15 years.
And I've never stopped learning.
Every new project is a
new opportunity for
growth.
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In a nutshell:
“Be someone else. It takes great empathy to create a good experience. To create relevant experiences, you have to forget everything you know and design for others. Align with the expected patience, level of interest, and depth of knowledge of your users. Talk in the users’ language.”
– Niko Nyman
How do their habits, attitudes, beliefs, and past experiences shape their interactions with the website?
These goals form our use cases.
Instead of asking what features should be included, ask:
To narrow the focus to the key user types for our site, we craft 3 or 4 user personas that include information such as:
As a _________________, I want to ____________________
so that I can ____________________
[persona type]
[immediate goal]
[ultimate goal]
“Design supports an open approach in which anyone in the organization can participate to generate solutions, make insightful and meaningful decisions”
– Peter Merholz
“I have not failed 10,000 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work. When I have eliminated the ways that will not work, I will find the way that will work.”
- Thomas Edison
“Any design based on a written spec is a design based on theory. A design based on a prototype is a design based on experience and practice… Prototyping has given us the power to show and tell the story of our design solutions to any given problem rather than just tell the story waving our hands in the air to describe the magic.”
– Todd Zaki Warfel
Wireframes and mockups help us decide if a design idea works or not. Clickable prototypes are even better!
We have to arm ourselves with data, research, design patterns, and a clear understanding of our users and our content so our decisions are not made out of fear but out of real, actionable information.
– Debra Levin Gelman
Using interactive prototypes, we can let stakeholders and end-users get a feel for how the site will work before we spend too much time setting it in stone.
Great for creating anything from flow diagrams to clickable prototypes
Nice lo-fidelity mockups
Clickable prototypes
For authoring PHP, JS, CSS, HTML5, etc...
That's it for now!
Thank you!