User Experience
Lost in Translation: User-Centered Design
It’s very easy when you’re constantly engaged in design work to use terms and phrases that you know mean something, but consistently they are taken to mean something else. One of the worst offenders in the design world is the phrase: “user-centered design.” It has led to more misunderstandings and mistakes then I’d care to […]
Sample MindMap for SharePoint Taxonomies
I remember the first time I was shown the MindManager tool specifically for documenting enteprise-grade taxonomies. For too long tools like Excel had ruled the day, but tools like Excel and Word are too linear and not visual enough for complex taxonomies. Mindjet MindManager has since become my tool of choice for creating and document […]
SharePoint 2010 Wireframes
Another version of SharePoint is on us, and the need for the vital excercise of wireframes still exists. I created wireframes for MOSS, and now I have added new wireframes for 2010. If you search for SharePoint 2010 wireframes you’ll find a blog post, but those aren’t really true wireframes in the low-fidelity sense (they’re […]