Things I hate to do as a designer but do anyway
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A short talk about steps in my design process I used to hate, but do anyway because they are so vital.
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Things I hate to do as a designer but do anyway
- 1. Things I hate to do as a designer but do anyway Matt Johnston @mattsjohnston Sunday, October 21, 12
- 2. Things I wish I had done more of while I was in 500 Startups Matt Johnston @mattsjohnston Sunday, October 21, 12
- 3. User Feedback Sunday, October 21, 12
- 4. Swallow your pride • Ask as o!en as you can • Ask as many people as you can • Ask during each stage of design Sunday, October 21, 12
- 5. What do you ask? • Do they understand it? • Do they like it? • How would they use it? • How would they like it differently? Sunday, October 21, 12
- 6. Flow Mapping Sunday, October 21, 12
- 7. What pages will you have? • Map specific action flows • Map entire site structure • Don’t skip any pages Sunday, October 21, 12
- 8. Resources • MindNode Lite • MindMeister • Pen & paper Sunday, October 21, 12
- 10. Helps focus your designing efforts on content & layout Sunday, October 21, 12
- 11. • Key sketches very low-res • Keep them small - it will help keep too much detail out Sunday, October 21, 12
- 13. It’s not copying if you call it “inspiration” • If nobody copied interface designs, the world would be a confusing place • A uniform web is a useable web Sunday, October 21, 12
- 14. Resources • patterntap.com • mobile-patterns.com • dribbble.com • appvita.com • ui-patterns.com • Google, duh... Sunday, October 21, 12
- 15. Prototyping with code Sunday, October 21, 12
- 16. Why? • Provides your back-end devs with markup sooner rather than later • Encourages focus on content before graphics • Allows for a quicker MVP launch • Encourages use of reusable CSS components that can be styled as needed Sunday, October 21, 12
- 17. Use a front-end framework • Bootstrap • Zurb Foundation Sunday, October 21, 12
- 18. Thank you. Matt Johnston @mattsjohnston Sunday, October 21, 12