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Monday January 25, 2010

Visualizing Intonation

Distribution of intonation patterns in statements in Cambridge English

This is a really interesting way of displaying declarative intonation, like, in a static study-results kinda way, ya know?

Image posted by Matt Donovan in Infographic .

Tuesday October 13, 2009

Sketch The Right Problem

by Matt Donovan

Designing websites and applications for large companies often involves a political tug-of-war to some degree. It’s easy to get stuck in a cycle of designing on the fly to accommodate varying (if not competing) agendas. Bringing a picture to the table, even if it’s the most juvenile sketch, can breathe new life into the ideas that matter.

Article posted by Matt Donovan in Consulting, Design, Infographic, User Experience, Visualization .

Thursday August 27, 2009

Physical Storage vs. Digital Storage

Every hour 384 albums of photos are uploaded on Flickr

Our EMC friends at Mozy have a knack for posting fun data visualizations. Here’s a great one illustrating physical size and capacity of storage through the ages .

Image posted by Mark Kraemer in Infographic, Information Design .

Wednesday January 7, 2009

View more, if only a little

comparison of before/after states of a show-content action on Apple's movie trailers site

I’m seeing this “View More” link a lot lately. More often than not, the hidden content is no more than a few sentences long. I’m guessing this was implemented in the example above to keep the ads at the bottom of the screen from appearing below the virtual fold in instances when the selection box on the right is wider.

This just a friendly reminder to go back and test the dickens out of even the smallest features. Hiccups like this can easily be avoided.

Image posted by Matt Donovan in Infographic, Interface, User Experience .

Monday June 30, 2008

Twelve emerging best practices for adding UX work to Agile development

UX and Agile Development

Very interesting article by Jeff Patton on how UX practitioners have adapted to work in Agile environments. We’ve had mixed experiences with Agile approaches. I realize the benefits to iterations and small changes, but its also hard to balance that with the long term planning sometimes required for things like global navigation. I’m particularly interested in extending what we have tried before for “parallel track development to work ahead, and follow behind.”

Image posted by Mark Kraemer in Infographic, Project Management, User Experience .