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A Review – Gamification by Design

Apr
9
2012

Gamification by Design

Rating:
3

Gamification seems to have been the big thing for a while. Maybe we have heard too much of it. Some would say we have been over sold on gamification, making it the wonder child that will make your websites work and attract and keep customers.

Gamification by Design – by Gabe Zichermann and Chris Cunningham is the recommended discussion seed book for UXPerth this month (April 2012). I don’t often review the books for UXPerth, unless they are amazingly outstanding or something a lot worse.

Good Work Bankwest – just a few things missing…

Mar
30
2011

Bankwest * –  a local Western Australian centric bank, that has recently redesigned it’s web site. Now the interesting thing with Bankwest is that they have been slowly over time improving their site with each redesign. Making the site more customer focused and less about the bank, more about people.

This most recent redesign seems to have taken that last final leap towards a customer centric service, leaving the stuffy old school bank image behind.

A Review – Prototyping

Apr
5
2010

Prototyping - A Practitioner's Guide

Rating:
3

I’m an advocate of prototyping. I’ll even go so far as to recommend that wireframing be reduce to just sketching in favour of prototyping. Still prototyping in a UX environment can sometimes be one of those things that you don’t always get to practice when you would like to.

This is where Rosenfeld’s book Prototyping – A Practitioner’s Guide by Todd Zaki Warfel can fill in some of those nagging holes.

A Review – Fancy Form Design

Jan
17
2010

Rating:
4.5

As I’m designing forms I don’t usually have an issue making then usable or accessible within the limits of the clients budget.

However taking the form to the next level technically can sometimes be an issue. This is exactly what Fancy Form Design by Jina Bolton, Tim Connell and Derek Featherstone is all about, designing and building those great forms on the web.

When I first purchased this book (yes I do purchase my books, they aren’t usually review freebies) I was a little skeptical as to whether this book would have any content in it that would be relevant to me. This is an issue that I’m running into more and more these days.