When the business model doesn’t match the user experience or… when nobody seems to understand what the business model is, the designer can’t know if they are helping or hurting the company by creating a better experience for the user.
Posts Tagged with ui
The Business Model and User Experience
9/24/2008 – 10:10 am
Thoughts on A Complete Experience
9/23/2008 – 11:35 am
I recently posted a quote from Steve Ballmer discussing a key difference between Apple and Microsoft, which I titled A Complete Experience. Having spent a bit more time thinking about it, I thought I would capture some of those thoughts…
A Complete Experience
9/16/2008 – 11:35 am
In the competition between PCs and Macs, we outsell Apple 30-to-1. But there is no doubt that Apple is thriving. Why? Because they are good at providing an experience that is narrow but complete, while our commitment to choice often…
Searching for Findability
3/25/2008 – 9:17 am
Everyone seemed to have their place in the project life-cycle at the web design agency; everyone but little Findability. Occasionally someone would notice his value to a project, but instead of giving him the care he deserved, they’d just fork…
Design, Feedback, WordPress and the Community
1/3/2008 – 10:31 am
Chris Messina has posted a great entry discussing the problems with open source design, with a focus on the new administrative interface for WordPress 2.4, which is generating a lot of discussion now that it is partially implemented in the nightly…
Satisfying UI Design is Often Illogical
11/16/2007 – 10:47 am
Scott Stevenson provides a very interesting essay, Satisfying UI Design is Often Illogical, discussing the impact and need for UI changes and the expectations of and reactions by the market to those changes. The entire piece is well worth a…
What We Talk About When We Talk About Design
9/5/2007 – 10:00 am
You tell him I said to take a long unstructured walk around his city. Talk to strangers. Take pictures. Visit at least one museum. Pretend like he’s from somewhere else for an hour. Stop in a park to read Raymond…
Screens around town
5/18/2006 – 8:29 am
37signals has set up a flickr stream showing screenshots of various UIs, most of which are Web-related (tag: screensaroundtown). There are some nice components in there, though some of the shots don’t seem to fit the group, like the install window…
PHP Progress Bar
2/1/2005 – 10:28 am
An interesting idea was posted to eVolt’s TheList in the form of a tip: using PHP’s flushing buffer to create a progress bar for large PHP applications. Juha Suni, the author of the tip, provided the following code, noting, that “you can…