Belgrade design week 2013
It has been said that if May belongs to the New York Design Week and the Venice Art Biennale, June is all about Belgrade. 2013 was the ninth consecutive year that the Belgrade Design Week embellished our lives.
Offf Barcelona 2014 – Let`s feed the future
Every year, a wide range of design events take place around the world. This year was all about OFFF Barcelona for us! OFFF was born a decade ago as a post-digital culture festival: this year’s edition covered illustration, photography, branding, animation and motion design, art direction, interaction and service design OFFF 2014 hosted 45 speakers, […]
WIAD 2014, “Make the World a Better Place through IA”
World Information Architecture Day is a one-day annual conference hosted by the Information Architecture Institute and held in dozens of cities across the world. For newbies in design, UX and IA trying to explain it on its easiest form Information Architectures are structures that we use to make sure that the information people need is […]
The difference between Information Architecture and UX Design
Next to explaining what I do for a living, the second question I most frequently hear is: “What’s the difference between Information Architecture and User Experience?” The line always seems to blur between the two, even though there’s clearly a difference. How should I go about explaining it?
ProRail & NS, Innovation that improves safety and comfort on the platform
In this age of rising passenger numbers and the increasing frequency of incoming and outgoing trains, the passenger on the platform is under pressure. ProRail – together with NS Dutch Railways – wants to improve the transfer process on platforms: more comfortable, faster and safer.
Obvious always wins
It’s tempting to rely on menu controls in order to simplify mobile interface designs —especially on small screens. But hiding critical parts of an application behind these kinds of menus could negatively impact usage.
Nextr – Public Transportation Guidiance
Nextr is an iPhone app that guides you through all public transportation systems in Germany. Public transportation guidance rethought. Available in the App Store.
Content- out Layout
¨Grids do not exist in a vacuum. They exist in relation to the content. We never start with a grid. We start with an idea which is then translated into a form, a structure.¨ by Linda van Deursen Grids serve well to divide up a predefined canvas and guide how content fits onto a page, […]
Be my eyes, lend your eyes to the blind
Be My Eyes is an app that connects blind people with volunteer helpers from around the world via live video chat. Downloading the app users can help blind people see.
Towards a new Information Architecture
When the internet was first becoming a thing, it was very different than it is now. It wasn’t very interactive. To be honest, it barely had any interface design either. The great bulk of websites were just walls of text arranged into a semblance of order by tables with the borders turned off.
Information Architecture Basics
Information architecture (IA) focuses on organizing, structuring, and labeling content in an effective and sustainable way. The goal is to help users find information and complete tasks. To do this, you need to understand how the pieces fit together to create the larger picture, how items relate to each other within the system. Why a […]
Information Architecture and Business Strategy
Business strategy and information architecture are closely inter-related. For most organizations, the days of slapping a web site on top of an existing business strategy are gone. Web sites, extranets, and intranets play key roles in defining relationships between a company and its customers, investors, suppliers, and employees.
Information Architecture
Information architecture is the work that goes into creating intuitive navigation schemes for software. Information architecture generally applies to websites, but can also apply to web applications, mobile applications, and social media software. Ideally, a website or application’s navigation scheme makes it easy for users to find desired information or functionality. On a website, the […]
How to explain Information Architecture
How to explain information architecture…to your cab driver, bartender,hotel bellhop or fellow human in an elevator or other short interaction.
Complete Beginner’s Guide to Information Architecture
Information architecture is an often misunderstood job title. Are they Designers? Developers? Managers? All of the above? In this article we’ll discuss what information architecture is, why it’s related to usability, and what are the common tools/programs used in information architecture.
Am I An Inforamtion Architect?
Many people have asked themselves this question. We often find ourselves alone at the office wondering why we can’t fit into any specific department or, after so many evaluations, feel like we’re just not doing what it is that we really want to.
Pay per laught
It’s the world we live in: every human activity broken down into measurable chunks, everything made quantifiable, the easier to be priced, packaged and sold. So why should comedy be spared?
Contextual Task Analysis
A contextual task analysis, or contextual inquiry, is a user research method that applies ethnographic observation and one-on-one interviewing to understand the task procedures that users follow to reach their goals. The researcher silently observes the user at work in his or her natural work environment and notes any tools and people that support the user as they work toward task goals.
Cognitive walkthroughs
To determine the level of usability for a website, one or more usability experts “walk” through a set of the most typical user tasks supported by the website, one-step-at-a-time. At each step in a task procedure, the evaluator(s) asks herself the following four questions about her expectations of users’ behaviors
Can I use?
“Can I use” provides up-to-date browser support tables for support of front-end web technologies on desktop and mobile web browsers.
Authentic Weather
One smile at a time plus accurate weather information.Authentic Weather is probably the most honest & human weather app out there.
What are Users Up to When they Have an Experience?
In my role as strategist for a marketing agency, I work with a number of clients who have, in the past few years, taken a more customer-centric approach to their marketing activities.
The science of Happy Design
So much of the news about technology tells us that websites, mobile apps, and social media are bad for us. Supposedly, technology makes us anxious, our smartphones take us out of the present moment, and social media ensnares us in a dopamine loop.
Stir Kinetic Desk
A Srir kinetic Desk is an office desk.It makes moving while working, effortless and engaging. Creating extra energy while standing at your desk can lead to your most creative work.
An interesting list of must-read books about design
As Facebook’s director of product design, Margaret Gould Stewart (TED Talk: How giant websites design for you (and a billion others, too) has to come up with designs seen by literally billions of people. No pressure. She’s an old hand at this game, though, having previously worked on the digital output of those other giants, […]
Are we thinking about digital all wrong?
If digital is just a tool in our business arsenal, then it fundamentally alters how we approach this new medium. It will even redefine what your job should be. If digital is just a tool, we might not even need web professionals.
Edenspiekermann Talks Type, Branding & RWD
Robert Stulle of Edenspiekermann on an interview about web fonts and why type matters
The design sprint
The sprint is a five-day process for answering critical business questions through design, prototyping, and testing ideas with customers. Developed at Google Ventures, it’s a “greatest hits” of business strategy, innovation, behavior science, design thinking, and more — packaged into a battle-tested process that any team can use.
The day you became a better designer
Author: Tobias van Scheider I received a lot of feedback on my articles recently. (big thank you for that!) While some appreciate the wide & weird range of topics, some ask me why I don’t write about real design topics. Such as, “How to solve UX problem XYZ” or “How to build the perfect responsive […]
Pocket synth noisemakers
Teenage Engineering’s been teasing its tiny PO-12 for nearly a year, and for the NAMM show, it’s officially launching its pocket synth not as a standalone unit, but as a line of little noisemakers that look like Casio calculators with their faceplates snapped off.
Stafidenios
Stafidenios is an innovative packaging packs quite a punch as it includes a surprise factor in the form of a hidden paper toy which is a real lure to parents and kids. Each package contains a different paper toy and has the intrinsic quality of being easily assembled regardless of the time and place.
For design friends
“Everybody can learn shit, but you don’t learn attitude!” or even “I prefer beginners who are nice to arseholes with skills”
Whether you make it or not is never about talent
“Can you tell who’s going to make it in your class?” I sometimes get this big question. And my answer is YES, I CAN. Their eyes open up twice as big. But wait! I need to explain a bit more. Recently in my class, a students, who is very talented, but lacking a bit of […]
Explaining graphic design to four year olds
I recently offered to talk at the local primary school, about my job (or at least part of my job). I expected to be speaking to the older kids, and be able to talk specifically about the cool parts of the job, and maybe some of the sucky bits too, and how you get around them.
Google’s Algorithm for Happiness at Work and in Life
We all want to be happy. Some even say that achieving happiness is the goal of life. While we don’t consider happiness the purview of technology companies—more the stuff of psychology or the arts—Google has made a real contribution to happiness studies thanks to one of it’s first engineering employees, Chade-Meng Tan.
11 personality traits of a successful freelance designer
What type of person does it take to thrive as a successful Freelance Graphic Designer? It’s an interesting personality mix: fiercely independent, yet collaborative, extremely confident, yet vulnerable and open-minded, firm, but flexible.
The Dark Side of Scrum
Today Scrum is the dominant framework for managing projects in the software industry. While some of us are glad that it isn’t Waterfall (talk about low standards & picking the lesser poison) I deeply believe this is crazy. I seriously believe it is about time to freak out about it.
Introduction to scrum
A quick overview of Scrum. This e-learning module covers the rationale for Agile/Scrum, along with an overview of roles, meetings, and artifacts. The module ends with a challenging quiz which has been shown to increase scores on Scrum certification tests (such as Certified Scrum Master).
How to combine Design Thinking and Agile in practice
Many of the people and companies I talk to about Design are grappling with applying design at scale. They want to hire designers like crazy, and they are open to change, or as open as you can be before culture change really takes place. What’s holding most of them up is lack of familiarity with how to apply theory to practice.
Agile, the best way we ever worked
Over the last few years we adopted agile methods for our daily work at Edenspiekermann, including our clients in the process. Currently we work on all our big projects with multidisciplinary teams in an agile way. We mostly employ Scrum since we have found this particular method to be highly effective and a reliable way to get great results.
Agile Methodology
Agile methodology is an alternative to traditional project management, typically used in software development. It helps teams respond to unpredictability through incremental, iterative work cadences, known as sprints. Agile methodologies are an alternative to waterfall, or traditional sequential development.
Agile is the new waterfall
Agile promised us engineer driven development. It was a shining deliverance from the dystopia of Waterfall where every important decision was being made immutable outside the hands of engineers. If you read the Agile manifesto it says as much. It values individuals, working software, collaboration, and rolling with the punches.
Apollon Theater 150 years
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World IA day 2015
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Applied design round table
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From pits to pitch
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