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...

Jeff Belden MD | beldenj@health.missouri.edu | 573-489-4206 m
Geek Salad: Tossing Ideas Around
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