What People Are Really Doing—Nai-Hwa Chiang & Naveen Ravi Kumar

“This 20 minute documentary, created by IIT Institute of Design students Nai-Hwa Chiang and Naveen Ravi Kumar as their final demonstration project, introduces some key concepts and approaches for effective user observation.” (Via @vickytnz)


Duration: 21 minutes

Rich & Mobile Form Design—Luke Wroblewski

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Luke Wroblewski (Yahoo!, LukeW Ideation + Design) on using rich interactions and other techniques to improve web and mobile forms. (MIX 10, March 2010). A PDF of the presentation slides is available here.


Duration: 59 minutes

The Right Way to Wireframe—Fred Beecher

Fred Beecher (Evantage) on wireframing. From The Right Way to Wireframe workshop that he gave at Interaction10 with Todd Zaki Warfel, Russ Unger, and Will Evans.

The Right Way to Wireframe — Russ Unger

Russ Unger (UserGlue) on wireframing. From The Right Way to Wireframe workshop that he gave at Interaction10 with Todd Zaki Warfel, Fred Beecher, and Will Evans.

The Right Way to Wireframe — Todd Zaki Warfel

Todd Zaki Warfel (messagefirst) on wireframing. From The Right Way to Wireframe workshop that he gave at Interaction10 with Russ Unger, Fred Beecher, and Will Evans.

The Right Way to Wireframe — Will Evans

Will Evans (Semantic Foundry) on wireframing. Will will be holding a workshop entitled The Right Way to Wireframe at Interaction10 this weekend, along with Russ Unger, Fred Beecher, and Todd Zaki Warfel.

Authors@Google: Dan Roam

Dan Roam (author of Back of the Napkin and Unfolding the Napkin) talks about visual thinking and visual problem-solving (May 2008).

Paper Prototype Animation — Chris Neale

Chris Neale shows how to combine paper prototyping and stop-motion video to demonstrate how a design will work in a very compelling way. Nice. (Hat tip to Will Sansbury.)

Why Phones Are Not Computers — Scott Jenson (long)

This is the lecture that Scott Jenson (Google) gave at Stanford University as part of its HCI Seminar lecture series, February 2007. Some of his points may seem less relevant now that the iPhone and Android are taking over, but most people in the world are still using feature phones, and much of what Jenson says applies to smartphones too.

BJ Fogg on Simplicity

Dr. BJ Fogg explains the six elements that make up his framework for understanding simplicity (part of his behavior model).

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