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16 years ago @ Dexo Design - Russell ... - Is software design a l... · 0 replies · +1 points

Lindsay - thanks for commenting. I read your article and wanted to comment on two things you said:

1) "Graphic designers make things look cool... you can hire them on freelance and save yourselves lots of money"

This is only a small part of the picture. Graphic designers do make things cool, but they are also make things easy to use through visual design. Visual hierarchy draws the eye to more important content and improves efficiency. Layout and visual alignment also help the brain organize information and reduce cognitive load. I could go on... don't sell graphic designers short.

2) "To employers and product managers out there – hire a UI/UX person to work with the users..."

You seem to propose (and I may be wrong) black-box or expert design, something that I personally have failed at numerous times. It was a hard lesson to learn. The best designs come from iterative meetings with input from cross-functional teams. I typically structure teams consisting of designers, developers, subject-matter-experts, and of course users. The designer's (or UX professional's) job is not to design in isolation, or generate every good idea, but rather to apply their skills, training, expertise, and talent to the creative input from everyone, and to synthesize that input into the best design possible.

Does that make sense?

16 years ago @ Dexo Design - Russell ... - Design Process at Face... · 0 replies · +1 points

Jay, I have had a lot of success with the "design team delivers code" model and I really think it makes sense. Some of the challenges of course are managing joint schedules and deliverables, but it has solved many of the problems designers face such as getting specs correctly implemented and gaining buy-in/camaraderie with dev.

With your design coders in dev, has their been any impact to synergy with the design team or no? I assume the design coders no longer report to the design manager correct? That would concern me...

16 years ago @ Dexo Design - Russell ... - Why Microsoft’s ribb... · 0 replies · +1 points

> to write "Why *I THINK* MS ribbon sucks"
Everything I write on this blog is what "I think"... :-)

> your way of thinking is different then majority of people
How would you know that? Do you have statistical data to support that? (I have not seen any good
statistics on this yet)

> interface designer and think of it from that perspective...instead of looking at it from a user perspective
What???? My JOB is to look at things from a user's perspective! That's what UI designers/developers do.

16 years ago @ User Interface Trends - Command Line Interface... · 0 replies · +1 points

CLI's are superior (to GUI's) in scenarios where someone is highly skilled with an application and needs to squeeze out every bit of efficiency they can. Interaction with the mouse can actually slow you down in these cases.

16 years ago @ User Interface Trends - I Like Big Buttons and... · 0 replies · +1 points

Are you referring to the dimensions of the buttons or their visual weight/emphasis? In the first example the button isn't that big really but you do see it right away.

16 years ago @ Dr. Alison Marr - Is that a praying mant... · 0 replies · +1 points

totally awesome... ha ha...

16 years ago @ Dr. Alison Marr - Angry Airport Jeff · 0 replies · +1 points

This is the Jeff I know... ha ha...

16 years ago @ Dexo Design - Russell ... - UI Design Guiding Prin... · 0 replies · +1 points

Several colleagues pointed out Bruce Tognazzini similar list: http://www.asktog.com/basics/firstPrinciples.html

16 years ago @ Dr. Alison Marr - Never a bad time for a... · 0 replies · +1 points

Come back now.

16 years ago @ Dr. Alison Marr - Prepping For Belize · 0 replies · +1 points

I hope you two have a wonderful trip! I'll be thinking of you both while driving home from work in 105deg heat...

Hugs,
Russ

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