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Prototyping Tool Advancements

Improving web-applications through the early use of prototyping tools has brought about advancements in the prototyping tools themselves. One common and often promoted prototyping tool called “paper prototyping” (i.e. creating prototypes with paper and pe... Read >

The iPhone’s Fifth Birthday the Impact on UI Prototyping

Since the launch of the iPhone five years ago, there have been many developments in mobile technology and UI prototyping. People can now use UI prototyping to create wireframes for apps and websites designed for smartphone users. UI prototyping can be esp... Read >

How Much Time Should Be Spent on UI Prototyping?

In recent years more and more companies resort to prototyping as their first step in the creation of a new product. Similarly, UI prototyping is used in web development. UI prototyping has benefits which are no longer questioned. One question that remains... Read >

How UI Wireframe Software Became What It Is Now

Using good wireframe software is now absolutely indispensable in web development. Wireframe software is becoming increasingly powerful and usually does not just provide pre-designed elements to facilitate the design process but also makes it possible to s... Read >

Dangers of Rapid User Interface Prototyping and How to Cope with Them

The benefits of rapid user interface prototyping are not in question. Numerous articles and blog posts on the web explain the advantages of this process and how it aids the development of a website. In essence, user interface prototyping can be compared t... Read >

Four Indispensable Characteristics a Good User Interface Design Tool Should Have

Nowadays there is a great variety of interface design tools available on the market. Most of them have some great characteristics, but they certainly cannot satisfy every possible need. A web developer often has to make a choice depending on the requireme... Read >

The Importance of Learnability for User Interface Design

As the computing landscape evolves to include an ever more sophisticated range of products and form factors the usability of the software and websites we use is continually being reviewed and refined. A crucial component of user interface design is usabil... Read >

Persuasive Design in User Interface Design

The user experience/ user interface design field is one that has seen a lot of dramatic changes in the last thirty years ever since GUIs became the de facto modus operandi of computing. New terms have cropped up along the way as user interface design evol... Read >

Psychological Manipulation in User Interface Design

Inspired by a UX Booth article Walk into a modern retail store and chances are that you will be bombarded by cleverly implemented psychological manipulation to induce spending. You might not realize it but that supermarket features a layout and design ... Read >

The Frontiers of Natural User Interface Design

According to Wikipedia, a Natural User Interface is when a UI is effectively invisible, or rather becomes invisible with successive learned interactions. These interactions are intended to feel natural as users operate the user interface design. Natural U... Read >

Workflow Design - Using User Interface Design Conventions

This article is based on the usability newsletter by Jakob Nielsen When creating user interface designs for websites and applications it is important to think of the use cases necessary for users to accomplish tasks. Good user interface design is not j... Read >

Spiral Design - What is spiral design?

What is spiral design? The spiral design method is a software development process that combines both elements of the prototyping method and the waterfall method in order to integrate the advantages associated with both methods. It is a process charact... Read >

Extreme Programming - What is extreme programming?

What is extreme programming? Extreme programming is a subtype of the agile development software process and is designed to improve the quality of the software based on customer responses that initiate rapid creation and results: the user experience fee... Read >

Parallel Design - How does it relate to user interface design

What is parallel design and how does it relate to user interface design? Parallel design (Parallel Design, UI Design) is a method which, broadly applied, can be employed by anyone undertaking a process of creation, but it lends itself particularly well... Read >

Waterfall design - What is waterfall design?

What is waterfall design? Waterfall design is a sequential design process, regularly used as a software development methodology, that follows a very specific pattern that ensures organization and progress towards a fixed goal. Like its namesake, waterf... Read >