Offenes Gedränge – Der Designer im Scrum-Zeitalter
»Making life easy« – anders als es das Motto des diesjährigen World Usability Day in München vermuten ließ, stand das Usability-Event dieses Jahr ganz im Zeichen einer Methode aus der Programmierung. Scrum, die derzeit wohl populärste Agile-Entwicklungsmethode, ist ohne Frage schwer im Trend. Und es scheint momentan für jede Agentur Pflicht zu sein, sie sich in Großbuchstaben auf die Fahnen zu schreiben.
Dass Gestalter dabei scharenweise auf den Zug mit aufspringen (oder von Entwicklern mitgezogen werden) ist da nicht überraschend – ob es auch gut ist, bleibt allerdings die Frage.
What the Fitts!?
Fitts law is one of the most important principles in interaction design. What is it and how does it apply to various types of interfaces?
In 1954 an Ohio State psychologist published a paper named »The Information Capacity of the Human Motor System in Controlling the Amplitude of Movement«. It presented a model for measuring the time it takes someone to hit a certain control of a machine, based on the position of the hand, the distance to the control.
The author of this paper was Paul Fitts and his findings are a key ingredient to every measured user interface design process. It was – and still is – glorified by many designers and engineers, probably most notably by Bruce Tognazzini, the first application software engineer at Apple. He even developed a set of questions about it which he would ask every aspiring software engineer. So what’s so important about it? Let’s have a look. continue reading …
This post was written by Philipp
on April 15th, 2011
iScraper field testing
We wanted to get some feedback on our iScraper application. So we grabbed a video camera, an iPhone and went to Marienplatz, the central spot in Munich. See iScraper in action in the video!
This post was written by Philipp
on March 8th, 2010
Gesture Icons for MT Wireframing
Gestures are common place in multi touch application development. Interaction Designers need icons for wireframing or just for documentation of the work. Ryan Lee released a vector based icon set for gesture under Creative Commons Licence. You don´t need to reinvent the wheel again. This so called Gesturecons include 42 icons for the most popular gesture like panning, flickering etc. You can download it the zip with .ai, .pdf and .eps files here…
via UX Strategie
This post was written by Thomas
on March 1st, 2010
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