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2005 May 29 • design, processCreating a Site Design Plan
article: Guides you through creating a site design plan by outlining business and user needs and defining goals.
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Content Brief
article: A formal plan for site content. The format of the brief can be whatever works best and it should be adjusted to suit your stakeholders, much like you’d do with a creative or technical brief. Includes an example.
2005 April 17 • processSetting Site Goals
article: Bring clarity to the sites you design for the benefit of your clients, their customers and ultimately your bottom line.
2005 April 7 • intranets, processContent Inventory
article: Focuses on the nuts and bolts of identifying content and coralling it in such a way that you have what you need when it comes time to populate your website.
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Character Traits
article: Useful when constructing archetypes or personas.
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Use Cases Part II: Taming Scope
article: The use-case model can be a powerful tool for controlling scope throughout a project's life cycle. Because a simplified use-case model can be understood by all project participants, it can also serve as a framework for ongoing collaboration and a visual map of all agreed-upon functionality. Use it to plan, to negotiate, and to prevent scope creep.
2005 March 1 • design, processUncomplicating the Web
article: Guidelines For An Uncomplicated Web covers the philosophy of keeping it simple.
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User experience diagrams
diagrams: Thirteen ways of representing user experience, usability and information architecture in the context of real-world projects and problems.
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Usability Testing Mistakes
article: Seven common usability testing mistakes:
- Do You Know Why You're Testing?
- Not Bringing the Team Together
- Not Recruiting the Right Participants
- Not Designing the Right Tasks
- Not Facilitating the Test Effectively
- Not Planning How You'll Disseminate the Results
- Not Iterating to Test Potential Solutions
[credit: Column Two] 2005 February 6 • process, usability
Successful Usability Tests
article: Six Tips to Ensure a Successful Usability Test. If you wait until the end to do usability testing you are almost certain to find serious problems in the product. And then you have the frustration of neither time nor resources to fix the problems.
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Use Cases
article: One of the biggest problems in creating and delivering a site is how to decide, specify, and communicate exactly what we’re building and why. Use cases can help answer these questions by providing a simple, fast means to decide and describe the purpose of your project.
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Golden Rules for Bad User Interfaces
article: The SAP Design Guild Website is full of guidelines and tips for good user interface design. Here are their top ten rules to promote bad user interface design.
2005 January 22 • process, usabilitySuper Easy Usability Testing
article: The absolute easiest introduction to usability testing you could possibly find anywhere.
2005 January 22 • process, resourcesGlossary of Terms
glossary: Terms relating to thesauri, faceted classification and other forms of structured vocabulary.
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User Stories for Requirements
article: User stories appear to have much in common with use cases and traditional requirements statements. However, there are many subtle differences among them and many advantages to user stories, especially for agile development projects.
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Benefits of Personas
article: The Three Important Benefits of Personas. (1) Helps to separate you from the work. (2) Helps provide a shared vision. (3) Helps solidify the shared vision.
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Project Management Checklists
checklist: An excellent set of checklists to use at every stage of a project, particularly useful for smaller businesses that don’t have dedicated project management staff.
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The Future of IA
presentation: Download an excellent presentation on the Future of IA, PDF and PPT formats.
2004 December 7 • design, processOne Way to Design a Web Site
article: One designers description of his web design process.
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Stay Clear of Stereotypes
article: Don't get caught in the 'stereotype trap' when you create personas for your Web site's persuasive architecture"
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