Friday, September 25, 2009

Geek Salad meets on Tue Sep 29 at 7-8 AM at Kaldi's on 9th & Cherry

Your call is very important to us…

Like most humans I know, I hate hearing this.

Now, there is an effective cure!

 

Fonolo!

Nice business model, offering a web plug-in for businesses.

Individual user-customers still get free service.

 

See you Tuesday.

We appreciate your patience. The expected wait time is approximately …86 hours.

 

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Geek Salad meets this Tue Sep 15 from 7-8 AM at Kaldi's on 9th & Cherry

Good Design Faster: “Sketch-Boards” and “Design Sprints”
I need to stop linking to podcasts, since most of us don’t have time to listen to one if it’s not already automatically going to our iPods.
I couldn’t resist. Here’s a link to the show notes:
http://bit.ly/spoolfast

I’ve started using Posterous.com for our Geek Salad blog postings.
It handles images better.

See you Tuesday.



How can we explore a range of solutions before diving into a single solution? Wireframes are very useful to the process, but instead, we should consider delaying them. Before wireframes, Leah suggests a very open, cross-team exploratory stage. Invite people from across your organization and even collaborate with those who might not normally be within the core design group.

Leah suggests a week-long ‘design sprint’ that begins with a group brainstorming meeting in the morning with lots of people… and everyone’s opinions count. Then that afternoon, the group sketches out a large number of low-fidelity sketches further exploring the experience they’re looking to design, based on the morning’s activities. Sketching many iterations based on different perspectives like, ‘how would we optimize this for a first-time user?’ ‘how about for a power-user?’ ‘how about for this demographic?’

Then the week-long process continues...

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Geek Salad: Tossing Ideas Around
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Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Steve Mays showed us some online tool he likes/uses/recommends

Steve Mays posted some cool things he likes here:
http://smays.posterous.com/demo-for-geek-salad




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Geek Salad: Tossing Ideas Around
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at Kaldi's Coffee on 9th and Cherry
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