Are you a business owner or product manager looking to improve the design of your product? Even if you do not have a designer on staff, you have design minded team members that can be guided with right questions. Here are some questions to ask to get your team to drive to the optimal solution.… Continue reading 5 Questions to Ask for a Better Solution
Category: Interaction Design
What is the ROI of design?
How much are you willing to pay for selecting the best design? How much are you willing to pay for making whatever design someone has in their head better over time? Do you take a focused approach to design? Or is the shotgun approach sufficient? If you are driven by numbers, why would you ever… Continue reading What is the ROI of design?
How to become a great Interaction Designer?
How to become a great Interaction Designer? Practice, practice, practice. Or as your dad used to say “Practice makes perfect.” I just finished Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers. I loved it. It is one of those books that made me think. That gets me pumped. Anyway, this book validated a lot of my observations I had… Continue reading How to become a great Interaction Designer?
Hiring an interaction designer?
Do you know what you are looking for? Do you know what to ask? Do you know what to look for? Do you know who they would work for? Why? In the enterprise software world, what do you want to look for in an interaction designer? What is an interaction designer? Do they just drawing… Continue reading Hiring an interaction designer?
iPhone is a bad example
How many times am I asked to just design it like the iPhone? How big is the iPhone? 3X2 inches? I think my problem is slightly different (sarcasm). Picture found on HarveyW’s flickr account I have to design an application that can cover an area of 6X4 feet. The users of my application like 3,… Continue reading iPhone is a bad example