Quotes

I’ve been thinking lately about design and universal principles that I should apply to both my ux designs and the process surrounding their creation.  I’ve come across a handful of quotes that illustrates a few good ideas that i would like to capture.  I’m going to list a few of my ideas and the quotes behind them.  Think of these as candidate principles or guidelines for the final list.

It’s free to think, so do it a lot.

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. - Linus Pauling

Keep it as simple as it can be without being simpler than it should be.

The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction. - John Maeda

Consider the entire product experience.

The experience is the product. - Brandon Schauer (with autograph in the cover of “Subject to Change”)

That’s all I have on my list for now.  Any suggestions for candidate principles or supporting quotes.

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UXIntensive Photos

I found a few pictures of me on Flickr taken during the UXIntensive workshop I attended last week.  Here I am talking about using comic strips to help achieve stakeholder buy-in. Good thing I payed attention when we talked about it at Capstrat.

Here’s another of me presenting our group’s visualization of the hotel check-in process.  I like this diagram because it indicates time and user satisfaction at a glance while maintaining fine-grained details in the post-it notes.

Lastly here’s one of us making the above diagram.

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UXIntensive

I’m in Minneapolis this week for Adaptive Path’s UXIntensive workshop. Things here will get ramped up tomorrow with an all-day session on design research. I’m looking forward to that and all of the other sessions and social events. I plan to write a blog article each day over on the Field Notes, the Capstrat blog. Be sure to check it out at:

http://blog.capstrat.com/authors/evan-carroll/

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Triangle Tweetup at Capstrat

Capstrat recently hosted Triangle Tweetup 2.0, a gathering of Triangle residents who use the popular social networking service, Twitter. Twitter is a service that allows users to stay in contact with one another by sending short answers to the question, “What are you doing?” Nearly seventy people attended the event and highlights included a demo of the video conversation network, Seesmic (http://www.seesmic.com ), a demo of Twitter Movie Reviews (http://jazzychad.com/twitter/movies ), and a happy hour at Capstrat’s media bar. Here’s a photo of the assembly, but there’s many more available Flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/triangletweetup).

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140 Characters or Less

Since joining Twitter back in March and gaining some insightful, and sometimes entertaining, conversation from it, I’ve noticed a change.  I now think in 140 characters or less.  At random times throughout the day, usually during transitions, I think of short comments to post on twitter.  Many of them don’t make it past my “think twice” editing process and others come too quickly that I ignore them to keep the latest message in tact.  In either case, Twitter is more than a short messaging service, it is a way of thinking.  Every accomplishment, epiphany, or occurrence is Twitter worthy, but you have to draft a nicely packaged, 140-character post to describe it completely.  It takes talent and possibly abbreviations or at worst, multiple updates.  In the end, it’s the search for the perfect Tweet, rich with context and content, but sparse in characters, and hopefully praised with responses, favorites, and re-tweets.

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