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The Fold
I love the fold on a web page. Especially it's sense of mystery of what's beyond the viewable area of the page. The possibilities. But the fold remains controversial because we always wonder if users actually scroll.
From Research to Personas
One of the most recurrent questions asked of us is how we create personas. Everyone wants to know the secret sauce. Before I spill the beans, it's more important to ask, "Why even create a persona?"
I Feel Your Pain
It's amazing what people tell you when you're conducting user research. It can be a virtual outpouring of angst, desire and need. I recently experienced this while conducting user research for a large web application redesign project.
Uncanny Parallels
Last week I had the pleasure to catch Scott McCloud speaking on his 50 state Making Comics tour. His book Understanding Comics is classic. The cross-over between comics and the filed of experience design (inclusive of interaction design–especially IxD–and information architecture) is uncanny. It seems that this relationship continues in his new book Making Comics; which I have yet to buy. Scott’s passion is definitely comics and he is an astute observer and scholar of comics form. Though I have never been much of a comic book reader, I do love comic strips in the paper. So I felt a bit out of place at the talk, I did find some–again–uncanny crossover between Scott’s world of comics and mine.