Smart Experience

Product Photo Study #1

Content as Conversation with Ginny Redish

Visitors don't come to your website for the joy of navigating or searching. They come for the content—the information that answers their questions, resolves their problems, helps them buy what they need, and gets them quickly through whatever task brought them to your site. For many website owners, content = "I have this information I have to get up there." Too often, however, that leads to content with the wrong focus for your site visitors, with too many words in overly large paragraphs orga...

Brad Bird on Designing Films

Here's a quick clip of Brad Bird talking about the film creation process and giving up particular ideas for the good of the overall concept. I find that's one thing people learn along the way: it's good to critique and trash ideas, just as long as it doesn't get personal.His dig on "businessmen" is overgeneralization of course, and we understand his point. The film is a design process, and can't be reduced to analysis.The clip is from an interview on The Incredibles DVD. The making-of portions...

Getting to the Point Quickly with Sustainable De...

In this preview of the recorded webinar, Nathan Shedroff builds on topics with the highest priorities from his upcoming book, Design is the Problem: The Future of Design Must be Sustainable. Nathan will quickly provide a thorough grounding into the breadth and depth of sustainability, its impact, and its importance. This will serve as a foundation for any designer in any domain to orient themselves and begin to prioritize more sustainable decisions in the products, services, events, and experi...

Bringing Design to Life: What Every Designer Sho...

Drawing from 25 years of experience in designing and engineering interface solutions as well as leading design and engineering organizations such as Yahoo! and Netflix, Bill will provide a set of guiding principles as well as concrete, real world examples of what is now possible and what is still hard to do given the current technology landscape. This hour-long webinar will help you: Understand guiding principles that every engineer wished you knewAvoid wasting effort on designs that will be t...

Preview: User Research Beyond Usability (with Ch...

In this preview video, Christian Rohrer introduces us to the distinction between utility, usability, and desirability, before discussing methods for studying desirability.For full webinar, go to http://www.rosenfeldmedia.com/webinars/user-research/

Sample Video: Webinar on Mental Models for Tacti...

You've researched your customers, aligned your product offerings with their behavior, and successfully used this mental model to guide your design. But as time passes, you see products, staff, and even whole business units come and go. How do you manage your design so it stays in sync with your organization? This Future Practice Webinar, led by author Indi Young, will introduce mental models, describe how they benefit tactical design projects, and then show how you can use them to manage strat...

Sample Video: Webinar on Modern Web Form Design

In this recorded webinar, Luke Wroblewski (bio) builds on topics in his top-selling book, Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks. Luke walks you through the latest applications of rich Web form interactions (made possible by dynamic technologies like Ajax) including: flexible inputs, dynamic help systems, inline validation, selection dependent inputs, and more. He also outlines how gradual engagement approaches to form design can create compelling new user experiences for a wide variety of Web...

Preview: Interaction Design Skills: Direct Manip...

In this preview to the upcoming video, we get an overview of the fundamental interaction design concept of direct manipulation.