I’ve recently finished the Rachel Hinman’s book “The Mobile Frontier”, which I was willing to read since the last UIE virtual seminar I watched. As expected, it has been a great reading and a better inspiration. The book covers pretty…
[Book] Communicating the User Experience
If I think I’m good at something in this field is communicating the UX. Whilst I admit I’m terrible creating icons, creating visual metaphors or talking with customers, I really think that as part of my leading role I got…
[Book] Buyology:Truth and Lies About Why We Buy
[Book] Buyology:Truth and Lies About Why We Buy Tomorrow taxes will increase, don’t lose your head today
[Book] User Experience Management – Skills for leading effective UX Teams
[Book] User Experience Management – Skills for leading effective UX Teams Good reference book for checking from time to time as a guide for the most common management activities. I want to remark the consideration about the difference between Leadership…
[Book] Mobile First
Brief, direct and simple. The idea: address your business strategy thinking first in your mobile experience. Why? to force simplicity, to reduce complexity, to get our users focus on content, to understand your product as pills of functionality handable by…
[Book] Sketching User Experiences
This is a book about process and design. Divided into two parts, Bill Buxton engage you (designers, product managers, business executives, etc.) in a analysis about methods, processes and business careers from a historical point of view. It brings other…
Should the Software Industry learn from other fields?
I’ll share with you an interesting reflection found in the book “Prototyping” by Todd Zaki Warfel regarding why we don’t expect prototyping as stage in the process in software development, regardeless the myth of the “return of investment”: I think the first…
HTML5 & CSS3 for designers
“Start now”, with this statement Dan Cederholm, the author of “CSS3 for Web Desginers” book, encourages us to work with the evolution of web markup style. And his not alone, with the same spirit, Jeremy Keith show us the history…
Personas’ Remote Research
To build a persona can be tricky; you can just look how actors need months to put in the shoes of a their new characters. In UI design, personas’ creation is part of the analysis stage: they will be used to define…
[Book] Emotional Design: Why we love (or hate) everyday things
The Norman’s book Emotional Design: why we love (or hate) everyday things is certainly praised by designers and non-designers. Truly, it has made me a better person (I would never say that I’m now a better designer since I’ve just…