Rapid prototyping in Fireworks CS5 – Interactive prototypes with annotations

Posted by sheryl in Process, UX on February 20, 2011

Recently I discovered an amazingly useful extension for Fireworks by Mariano Ferrario called the Annotations plugin. What’s great about this tool is that it allows you to add notes and annotations inline to your wireframe, as you’re developing it.  I’ve found it handy to use it to add notes, questions, etc, as the concept moves

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Gawker sites redesign – a change too soon?

Posted by sheryl in Articles, Musings, UX on February 8, 2011

Given the large outcry by most people of the Gawker sites redesign, I wanted to take a look at the UX change in more detail. Change is always difficult – but is it always bad?

Generally, I think all change is initially met with trepidation, or in this case a great deal of scrutiny.  The

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UX breakdown: A look at The Daily

Posted by sheryl in Articles, Musings, UX on February 6, 2011

With the much hyped and anticipated launch of Rupert Murdoch’s foray into an iPad newspaper, The Daily, I downloaded the app to take a look at the overall user experience within the application.  Trying to ignore the much complained about bugs, crashes and long loading times (you can see a long string of complaints on

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Kinect – What’s the future of gesture recognition in the ten-foot experience?

Posted by sheryl in Articles, IPTV, Musings, UX on February 1, 2011

According to Microsoft, the popularity of Kinect has far exceeded expectations – in a conference call the following statement was made:

“Kinect, in particular, exceeded our expectation. Kinect is the fastest-selling consumer electronics device in history. It’s just our first step in delivering on the opportunity to fundamentally change the way people interact with technology.

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