the right way to wireframe

In the UX field: no one shows their work! So Todd and Russ are here to show us everything they do when they build a design project. Has anyone seen a wireframe from Jesse James Garrett, Peter Morville, or Jared Spool?

If you are arguing about the differences between wireframes and prototypes or the best tools (OmniGraffle, Visio, Fireworks, Balsamiq Mockups, Axure), you are missing the point. The best tool / model is the one you are most comfortable with and the one you can produce the best output with. The idea is to communicate your concept to someone else, period.

Requirements. Research. Audience. [Content Strategy?]. Concepts (sketch). Wireframe/Prototype. Visual Design.
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Presenter(s)
Todd Zaki Warfel @zakiwarfel
Russ Unger @russu
Date
13 March 2010
Tag(s)
#rightwaytowireframe1
#rwtw
Books
Prototyping (Zaki Warfel)
Project Guide to UX Design (Unger)
Videos
Will Evans
Russ Unger
Todd Zaki Warfel

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wave and communication’s (r)evolution: better than being there?

The future of communication: one future is true real-time interaction. Being in the same room is usually touted as the richest, most effective way to “get stuff done”. This is untrue. In a face-to-face discussion, you have to wait for the other person to finish talking before you start interacting. Being in the same room is more like being in a chat room or an IM conversation. New communication tools can do it better.
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Presenter(s)
Jared Goralnick @technotheory
Casey Whitelaw
Daniel Raffel @danielraffel
Jay Cuthrell @qthrul
Date
12 March 2010
Tag(s)
#waveandcommunication

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web content management systems from a designer’s perspective

CMS brings content centralization, rich functionality, and easily puts management into a client’s hands. Most CMS’s out there have large designer/developer communities (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla!, Expression Engine).

Presenter(s)
Scott Fegette
Chris Charlton
Date
13 March 2010
Tag(s)
#contentmgmtdesign

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jacks of all trades or masters of one?

There are three foci of web professionals: Technology, Design, and Business. Some folks focus on one exclusively (specialists), others integrate two or more foci into their work (generalists). “T-shaped” people have a broad set of general skills and knowledge with a deep skillset in one or two specific areas.
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Presenter(s)
Brian Talbot
M Jackson Wilkinson
Date
12 March 2010
Tag(s)
#jacksofalltrades

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content strategy: what’s in it for you?

Content is the reason why people use the web. Content strategy involves planning for the creation, aggregation, delivery, and governance of useful, usable, and appropriate content in an experience.
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Presenter
Margot Bloomstein @mbloomstein
Date
12 March 2010
Article
alistapart (the case for content strategy)
Tag(s)
#contentstrategy
#cswiify

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i can’t have a tablet for $500 (yet).

So the iPad is a large-format iPod Touch when people thought Apple would be entering the tablet market the same way everyone else has entered that market: re-working an operating system to a touch/large-format interface. People were expecting Mac OS X on a touch screen. Instead, Apple decided to expand the featureset of the mobile environment used in the iPhone and iPod Touch devices. Even more device-centric than Mac OS X, the mobile environment is geared toward getting the best bang out of mobile-sized processors rather than mediocrity. This is always Apple’s approach, so why are we surprised by a product that does things in a different way? Yet controversy abounds and the technorati is sadface.
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an open letter to the wonderful developers at Delicious Monster

In July of 2009, Amazon.com demanded that Apple remove a new iPhone app from the makers of Delicious Library, an excellent Mac desktop application for managing your personal library. I grovel and beg… I mean, I outline some ideas for the way Delicious Monster could have their cake and eat it, too.
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refresh central arkansas: WordPress

I did a talk at a refresh central arkansas meeting back in May 2009. It’s about WordPress. I’m sure you’re surprised. Jump to about 16:40 in the clip for the beginning with my highly inappropriate first slide. You can watch the slideshow after the jump too.

EDIT: Just found out that the second half of the talk never got recorded. Bummer. But that means that I get to say that the second part of my presentation was the most exciting thing ever seen.


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