I was having a discussion the other day with some fellow web designer friends on the skills that you required to be stay in this field long term.
Sure we all agreed you need to at least have the core design skills, understanding of layout, colour theory, typography and the usual tricks of the trade. The platform that you used to deliver your designs was immaterial, be that Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks or the like it didn’t really matter, the end result was what was important. That’s a given.
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From a user experience view we are always looking for the real world interaction that we can translate into the virtual world. The procedure that we can mirror with an element of user familiarity to leverage of a person’s previous experience.
However from time to time you run across something in the real world that just needs to be streamlined before it’s moved into the virtual.
I’ll give you an example.
The National Australia Bank (NAB) have an interesting method for quick cheque deposits, this is from the instructions on the deposit envelope.
Web Directions User Experience 2008 continues from the morning after a filling lunch in a packed Melbourne town hall.
Jackie Moyes - Converting Research Data into Business Speak
Use of Core personas, compare design ideas, and feature analysis against the personas requirements. Will they use it.
Use of core case studies, short one page, based on emtographic research
Design is about negotiation process.
Use of feature analysis via competitor analysis. Looking at what the audience want of the features the persona wants via
Design is innovation.
Innovation in the wrong area is a waste of time.
After a workshop with Andy Budd yesterday and an evening with the WSG, it was time for Web Directions User Experience 2008 conference proper. With a packed out the Melbourne Town Hall with a focused not a the general web process but the user experience.
Andy Budd - Designing the Experience Curve
Initial and end experiences are the ones that are memorable.
Negative experiences stand out more than the positive experiences
We don’t have experiences in a vacuum, they are supplemented by the previous experiences
