An ongoing reading list of essential reading for UX Designers. These books cover the main skills and knowledge you need to survive as a user-centred designer. Design Fundamentals A Book Apart series The Design of Everyday Things, Donald Norman Don’t Make Me Think, Steve Krug Interaction Design – beyond Human-Computer Interaction, Jenny Preece What Technology […]
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CSS Architecture
The Dublin UX Meetup group is a fantastic resource for anyone working in interaction design. Last week, they played host to Dr. John Craddock – Head of Development at Adaptemy who spoke about CSS Architecture and how to write and manage CSS for your application. Dr. Craddock’s talk highlighted the need to refactor your CSS: cut down on bloated […]
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Fierce Clever is a web and user experience design agency, based in Dublin. I set up Fierce Clever in 2011 and since then, have delivered dozens of website projects for varied clients. These have included: UX reviews of apps and websites Usability testing of existing sites and products in development New website builds Renovation projects […]
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Client Live and Breathe Pilates are a Pilates studio based in Camden Row, Dublin and owned by Steph Grey. Objectives Live and Breathe needed a complete website redesign as well as integration of a new online booking platform. Considerations Huge range of clients of all ages and abilities, many of whom are accessing the website […]
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Evil UX Practices
When you walk into a supermarket you are typically greeted by the smell of fresh baked bread or the sight of row upon row of colourful, fragrant vegetables. Logically, bread and vegetables are not the first thing we want to put into our shopping trolleys – those soft, fluffy breadrolls are not going to hold […]
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Tips for Low Fidelity Wireframing
Fancy prototyping and wireframing software comes and goes but sketching is still the ultimate design communication tool. Some tips for low fidelity wireframing: Start rough and refine. Use a whiteboard, flip charts or big sheets of cheap paper. Get all your ideas out of your brain and onto a medium that allows other people to […]
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Unconscious Bias in Design
Although we all like to consider ourselves completely objective, we each are prey to a whole host of assumptions, thought patterns and preferences that affect our decisions and our judgement, often without us even realising it. This ‘unconscious bias’ refers to the stereotypes and categories we assign to things (often to people), that help us […]
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Client Rent Our Apartments are a group of private apartment owners, looking to rent out their apartments for short-term holiday lets in Murcia, Spain. Objectives Rent Our Apartments approached me with a completely blank slate. They wanted a web presence that would allow people to easily view apartment availability and make an online booking enquiry. […]
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Newstalk: The Business of Design
This podcast from Ireland’s Newstalk fm discusses the business side of design in Ireland, from high street fashion and design education to manufacturing. “The function of design is to realise an invention to something that’s credible and usable and accessible to a consumer.” Brian Stephens Bobby Kerr is joined by the co-founder of Design […]
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Book Review: Design is a Job
Mike Monteiro’s irreverent “Design is a Job” is the only self-help book any designer will ever need. Full of practical advice such as how to network effectively, what to charge, how to manage feedback and how to pick the right clients, Monteiro imparts wisdom with humour and sincerity. You can tell this is knowledge hard […]
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