design process archives
“Parallel & Iterative Design + Competitive Testing = High Usability”Title equation from an interesting
article on usability and design process.
Nielsen makes it sound so easy…
A new global visual language for the BBC’s digital services. More than just grids, their entire process. Required reading.
“Because design problems are so multi-dimensional they are also highly interactive… . It is the very interconnectedness of all [of the relevant] factors which is the essence of design problems, rather than the isolated factors themselves. In this respect designing is like devising a crossword. Change the letters of one word and several other words will need altering necessitating even further changes… .Bryan Lawson, in How Designers Think, which I am now finally getting back to finishing. I am encountering this almost every day now. Tweak the background, up the contrast of the text. Up the contrast of the text, fix the associated icon to match. Fix that icon, tweak this icon to better distinguish it. Etc., etc., etc.
If there was one single characteristic which could be used to identify good designers it is the ability to integrate and combine.”