Matt spoke at the Intranets2013 conference in Sydney last week, on the topic of creativity and ways to be more creative.
He shares his slides, and asks: what do you do to be more creative?
Back in March we reviewed a Udemy course by Dr David Travis called User Experience: The Ultimate Guide To Usability. It’s a cracking course – a mammoth goldmine of useful online UX training. Dr Travis has generously provided some 75%-off coupon codes just for UX Mastery readers. There are only a few so get in quick!
Matt attended Web Directions Code last week, and it got him thinking about the degree that coding plays (or should play) in the role of a user experience designer.
In addition to penning his thoughts, he created an experimental videoscribe to accompany this post.
Ever feel like you’re reinventing the wheel on each project that you tackle?
Perhaps you need to make use of templates. Whether it’s a skeleton document that you’ve refined yourself over the years, or a handy file made available by someone else, templates can bring a huge speed boost to your workflow.
Matt happens upon an industrial design anomaly that leaves him puzzled: a confusing label on a toilet roll dispenser.
What lessons can we learn from the design of physical products, and how can we apply them to digital design?
In the next of our series of interviews with UX Designers who we admire and respect, Luke chats to Jessica Enders from Formulate Information Design.
In this excerpt, Jessica opens up about daily routines, managing deadlines, and the challenges in maintaining a work/life balance.
Lately we’ve been spending some time interviewing UX Designers who we admire and respect, to get an insight into how they do what they do.
Luke caught up with Ben Tollady, from Thirst Studios in Melbourne, Australia. Here’s an excerpt from their chat.
Ever wish you had enough HTML and JavaScript skills to create prototypes of advanced interactions directly in the browser?
Matt reviews a new course on creating interactive HTML prototypes: Livetyping, by Martin Polley.
In a recent trip to visit his parents in the house in which he grew up, Matt stumbled upon a gem from his childhood: a kid’s book dedicated to typography.
He relives some of the moments that sparked his initial interest in design.
Ben Tollady is obsessed with designing websites that are not merely usable, but delightful.
So how does one create delight in a website or mobile app? Ben lists 10 approaches, backed up with a ton of examples.
