Apr 20, 2008
Timothy Keirnan interviews Andy Budd, author of CSS Mastery:
Advanced Web Standards Solutions and creative director of
Clearleft, a user experience design consultancy in Brighton,
England.
Andy and Tim discuss the following items:
* Giving site builders wireframes and prototypes instead of text-intensive design specifications.
* How guerilla usability testing fits into the user experience design process and how it may offer more value than big-budget summative testing.
* Where Andy will be speaking across England, New Zealand, and Australia over the next several weeks.
* The value of attending small or large professional conferences and how Clearleft designs its annual d.Construct conference.
You can see Andy at the following conferences over the next few weeks:
www.futureofwebdesign.com
www.chinwag.com/events/2008/04/chinwag-live-real-world-usability
http://webstock.org.nz/upcoming/
http://ux08.webdirections.org/
One of Tim's favorite professional books is the oldie-but-goodie Interface Design: The Art of Developing Easy-to-Use Software by Peter Bickford. You can find used copies of this out-of-print gem easily enough online.
Clearleft is at www.clearleft.com
Andy mentioned Silverback and you can learn about it at
www.andybudd.com/archives/2008/02/silverback/
Andy mentioned "bar camps":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp
And finally, you can learn more about the annual D.Construct conference at
www.dconstruct.org
Andy and Tim discuss the following items:
* Giving site builders wireframes and prototypes instead of text-intensive design specifications.
* How guerilla usability testing fits into the user experience design process and how it may offer more value than big-budget summative testing.
* Where Andy will be speaking across England, New Zealand, and Australia over the next several weeks.
* The value of attending small or large professional conferences and how Clearleft designs its annual d.Construct conference.
You can see Andy at the following conferences over the next few weeks:
www.futureofwebdesign.com
www.chinwag.com/events/2008/04/chinwag-live-real-world-usability
http://webstock.org.nz/upcoming/
http://ux08.webdirections.org/
One of Tim's favorite professional books is the oldie-but-goodie Interface Design: The Art of Developing Easy-to-Use Software by Peter Bickford. You can find used copies of this out-of-print gem easily enough online.
Clearleft is at www.clearleft.com
Andy mentioned Silverback and you can learn about it at
www.andybudd.com/archives/2008/02/silverback/
Andy mentioned "bar camps":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCamp
And finally, you can learn more about the annual D.Construct conference at
www.dconstruct.org