Dramatizing prototypes

I’ve often written about the value of rapid prototyping your designs, with an edge towards going high-fidelity quickly so you can glean more accurate feedback from target users, which cycles…

What’s your origin story?

Every hero has an “origin story”, which we love to see unfold, whether in the pages of a comic book, or on the big screen at the cineplex. We witness…

Thoughts on “creativity”

Two recent items have sparked some deep personal introspection into the consistently hot topic of “creativity”. I’d like to scaffold my thoughts on top of them into some operating personal…

In defense of chrome

I like visual chrome in UI…and I’m betting many designers secretly do too ;-) In the current (circa 2012) mood of anti-chrome dogma (i.e., skeuomorphism hate, fueled in part by…

Bumper sticker design

It’s fun to re-tweet nifty design phrases we come across while surfing around. Hey, I do it all the time! We find nice  zingers or deep maxims that seem to…