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Design Jargon, Simplified | Cooper We designers tend to like our fancy (and sometimes heady) terminology. The UX industry has gone through many different rounds of trying to define what we do, e.g. UX, service blueprints, journey maps. Describing our work can be exhausting for those who aren't immersed in our world.

Prototype usability testing? Avoid these common mistakes. Testing with wireframes is a fast and easy way of discovering usability issues during the early stages of the design process. Wireframes are a low fidelity version of the real thing, meaning they have lots of limitations that can affect the results of your usability study - or even completely ruin it - if you don't take some precautions.

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We were fortunate to attend IDTechEx 's USA 2014 expo featuring advancements in Wearables, Printed Electronics, Energy Harvesting and Storage, Internet of Things, 3D Printing and more. We interviewed Dr. Erkki Soininen of Canatu whose company just announced a release of a film capable of being used on 3D surfaces - a design game changer for wearables, mobile and automobiles. Give his interview a view!

A few weeks ago, Creaceed released Prizmo 4 for iOS 8, and they had the awesome opportunity of being mentioned in Apple’s Keynote around iPad Air 2. Today, they release Prizmo 3 for OS X Yosemite including brand new features like Handoff support and extensions. Last but not least, the update is FREE for registered users of Prizmo 2. What’s New in Prizmo 3? Major new release with native OS X Yosemite support: Revamped user interface taking advantage of Yosemite's translucency and vibrancy. Handoff to easily switch from editing Prizmo documents on one device to another, with Mac, iPhone, and iPad support. Image Cleanup Extension: Prizmo image cropping and cleanup capabilities are now exposed globally to other apps as an image editing extension. OCR Extension: Prizmo OCR capabilities are now made available throughout OS X, as an extension. Textual contents can be retrieved from any image in other apps that support extensions (image viewing action). Support for third-part...

Lynda.com announces the new title, "Migrating from Flash to Edge Animate" by Jake Stroh. In this interview we talk to Jake about the title, working with Lynda, his other work and more.

We just had to get the backstory of this incredible engineer, designer turned author - Carla Diana . She was promoting her book called " Leo the Maker Prince " at the 2014 Maker Faire - Bay Area. This is the first kid's book on 3D printing by MAKE  or Maker Media. Carla's mission is to invoke a sense of design at an early age(or kids at heart) with a great storytelling book about  Carla who wanted to become an artist when she grew up. She became an accountant instead(sound familiar out there?). Then, Carla’s life of numbers and “sense” was changed by meeting LEO, the Maker Prince. And through LEO’s magic of 3D printing—Carla finally became the artist she’d long ago wished to be. Watch our interview to get some insights on the book from Carla (the real Carla).

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listen to ‘Johnny Ives taking over design will be Huge for Apple’ on Audioboo Thoughts on why you should be exited about whats to come now that Johnny Ive is in charge of all things design at Apple.

Yoxi (YO-see) is a creative competition and a social game. Teams of problem solvers battle to deliver the best solutions to social issues. You vote, comment, pledge and play along online. The winning team gets the funding opportunities and positioning to make their idea a reality. The more stuff you do, the more your voice is heard. That way, you play to support great ideas brought to the real world.

Hover over black box above to see video controls. Speakers: Robby Ingebretsen, Rick Barraza, Arturo Toledo, Sean Gerety Bend your mind and relax your senses in this "Mind Bending" UX lightning session, packed with four topics on how to think outside of the proverbial design box. UX Lightning sessions are a full hour session with 4 exceptional speakers each presenting 10 minute topics. Hear from Sean Gerety speaking on "What Software can Learn from the World of Magic", Arturo Toledo with "Extending the Human DNA with Design", Rick Barraza with "What Brains, Football and Hobbits teach us about Designer & Developer", and Robby Ingebretsen with "Farming for Ideas: How to Be The Most Creative You". Attendees will learn from these experts how to rethink design and UX.

Hover over black box above to see video controls. Speaker: Robby Ingebretsen Typography in digital experiences is unavoidable, and for years it was a fight we mostly lost. Today, however, technology is on our side! High resolution screens, an expanding library of open fonts and new flexibility in nearly every UI technology have made digital typography more fun and more interesting than ever. We'll cover all aspects of working with digital type: everything from choosing complimentary typefaces to licensing, rendering and a system for layout and sizing. We all love type.

Hover over the black box above to see the video controls. Speakers: Chris Bernard , Thomas Lewis , August de los Reyes , Corey Schuman The August de los Reyes one will blow your mind, just amazing.

Macworld 2011 Feature Presentation: Learning from Science Fiction Interfaces Nathan Shedroff, Program Chair, MBA in Design Strategy, California College of the Arts Chris Noessel, Director of Interaction Design, Cooper Read More

Adobe gives us a sneak preview of Edge an interesting early stage HTML5 tool.

Adobe software never stops being frustrating. Learn to write, and not school-style writing. A text editor is a perfectly viable design tool. Graphic design has just as much to do with words as it does with pictures, and a lot of my favorite designers come to design from the world of words instead of the world of pictures. If you meet a person who cares about the same obscure things you do, hold on to them for dear life. Sympathy is medicine. Scissors are good, music is better, and mixed drinks with friends are best. Start brave and brash: you can always make things more conservative, but it’s hard to make things more radical. From blog.frankchimero.com ( share this quote ) Stop trying to be cool: it is stifling. From blog.frankchimero.com ( share this quote ) Seeking advice is addicting and can become a proxy for action. Giving it can also be addicting in a potentially pretentious, soul-rotting sort of way, and can replace experimenting because you think you know how things work...

Personally, I think the whole face-off between design and data is, frankly, stupid. It makes for a good conflict story, but it doesn’t reflect reality. It’s a poor way to frame the debate. Data and design should be friends, not enemies. In web design, people click or they don’t. They stay or they go. That’s good to know. But I’ll get to that later. From design2-0.com ( share this quote )