Tag Archives: research tools

Wireframing & Prototyping Tools: Balsamiq & Friends

By Georgia Otto | Published: 11.12.2009
For last month’s meeting of the NHUPA, a number of people did short presentations and demos of a variety of wireframing and prototyping tools. I presented Balsamiq, a low-fidelity wireframing tool best used for capturing ideas quickly, keeping people focused on concepts/layout or for teaching new user experience designers about wireframing. I figured someone might find it [...]
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Webitect ~ Conducting Collaborative Design Sessions – Part 4: Maintain

By Georgia Otto | Published: 08.17.2009
Make sure you never leave your participants hanging after an important meeting. Part 4 of this series will help you maintain a long term relationship with your participants. Part 1 of this series gave an overview of the purpose behind collaborative design sessions and how to prepare to conduct your own. In Part 2, we showed you how to [...]
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Webitect ~ Conducting Collaborative Design Sessions – Part 3: Facilitate

By Georgia Otto | Published: 08.10.2009
Clients and users need guidance when contributing their design ideas. Part 3 of this series will prepare you for the challenges inherent in facilitating collaborative meetings. In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, we explained how to prepare in advance for collaborative design sessions and how to begin your meetings with a solid focus [...]
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Webitect ~ Conducting Collaborative Design Sessions – Part 2: Inform

By Georgia Otto | Published: 08.4.2009
Getting the most out of your users requires that you take the initiative. In Part 2 of this series, you’ll learn how to begin your design session in a goal-oriented manner. In Part 1 of this series, we discussed the benefits of collaboration with users and clients at various stages throughout the design process. We also provided [...]
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Webitect ~ Conducting Collaborative Design Sessions – Part 1: Prepare

By Georgia Otto | Published: 07.27.2009
Read “Conducting Collaborative Design Sessions – Part 1: Prepare” on Webitect.net » Perhaps someone noticed I haven’t been posting at my normal rate. Or perhaps no one cares. For anyone who actually noticed the lapse, I appreciate your patience and support. The fact is, I’ve been working on my first paid blogging job! I’ll be [...]
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Two New Tools for Quick Usability Testing

By Georgia Otto | Published: 03.6.2009
In a previous entry, I discussed the need for better UX design tools. Now, from the makers of OptimalSort, come two new tools for testing the usability of your IA and interface design. Treejack You input a sitemap in the form of a hierarchically structured list and assign tasks for test participants to perform. Participants navigate through the [...]
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How to Make the Most of Five Seconds

By Georgia Otto | Published: 02.6.2009
You might be amazed how little time it takes for users to get a first impression of a website and how difficult it is to change that impression once it’s made. Wouldn’t it be great to know what users see in the first 5 seconds of viewing a site design – before building it out?
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Two Card Sorting Tools For User Experience Design

By Georgia Otto | Published: 01.19.2009
Following from last week’s discussion about UX design tools, here are a couple of free webapps that allow you to set up card sorting exercises and analyze the results. For those who may not know, a card sort is an exercise often used by Information Architects and other UX professionals to reveal natural patterns in the [...]
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Awesome Highlighter: A Tool for Researchers & Editors

By Georgia Otto | Published: 12.17.2008
Here’s just a few of the awesome things you can do with Awesome Highlighter: Highlight with multiple colors and add annotations on websites. Tag your highlighted pages to your heart’s content. View your saved pages and edit the highlights, notes and tags. Easily share with a hyperlink, or send your pages to Twitter and Delicious. Remind yourself and others why [...]
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