Compared to wireframes, HTML prototypes – especially for first-timers – can take more time to generate an initial set of ideas. However, if you reset expectations and consider impacts to your initial productivity, you’ll be better setup for the longer-term advantages of prototyping.
Last year, EightShapes was engaged by The Heritage Foundation to create a publicly accessible online version of their published book, The Guide to the Constitution. A few weeks into the process, we’d brainstormed a bit and iterated a few times on a HTML prototype. The emerging design took a “classical” approach: home page with spotlights targeting [...]
The more EightShapes sketches, the more we desire to retrieve and share those ideas later–to revisit abandoned, complex, or unrealistic notions of a better experience, to remind ourselves of passing ideas. Read on for six tips for organizing your sketched artwork.
Sketchnoting can make designers better listeners and better explainers. It can help designers become more confident in their ability to express themselves visually.
Join Dan at the IA Summit for a workshop on Design Leadership. He’ll facilitate a conversation about how to manage conflict in creative environments and show you EightShapes’ innovative new game for encouraging your team to talk about difficult situations.
It’s never too late for a refresher on project management fundamentals. To get our projects done right, we over-communicate, establish a clear schedule, and prepare to adapt to new circumstances.
Get great at getting feedback. Ask the right questions, introduce your design to invite conversation, and have the right attitude.
Professional development goal-setting is challenging for designers who sometimes feel like they have no control over their destiny. Ask your manager for the right things, and you may yet achieve your goals.
Telecommuting demands strong boundaries between work-life and personal-life. These eight tips–like scheduling end-of-day meetings–help the modern workforce preserve those boundaries.
How EightShapes uses an IPEVO camera to facilitate and record sketched ideas in design studios in a way that also enables participation from remote participation.