Latency: a real morale killer

Posted in Prototyping | 63 days ago

Over the past year, I have experienced some difficulty using Shared Projects. The server provided to me by my former company had a severe latency issue. Each connection (for instance a simple repo-browser) in TortoiseSVN would take up to 2-4 seconds to perform.

Axure Tip 13: The Word cleanup

Posted in Prototyping | 114 days ago

No specification generation can escape some cleanup in Word. With some attention to the way your Axure document is constructed, it is possible to reduce the cleanup that is necessary. The following checklist should help in using Word features to improve your specification output.

Axure Tip 12: Ordering matters

Posted in Prototyping | 121 days ago

The order in which widgets are placed on the page z-index really makes a difference for several reasons.

Axure Tip 11: Golden rules for a cleaner specification output

Posted in Prototyping | 149 days ago

Just completed a 1 hour presentation at Axureworld on Specification Generation where I gave a brief tour of the Axure specification generator. Fun to do, though a bit more time would have been good. You can download the presentation materials here

These will give some insight into the workings of the Axure specification generator and provide some tips on how to get the most out of it.

Reusing components in the UX design process

Posted in UX design | 260 days ago

Just caught this article on UXMatters on ‘reusing the user experience’.

Some interesting thoughts around component reuse and specification:

Axure Tip 10: Browsers matter

Posted in Prototyping | 263 days ago

During some user testing, we quickly discovered that the Axure prototype was near unusable in Internet Explorer. Fortunately the lab had Firefox installed also.