Anya Nikulina

Dec 16

Smashing Magazine on Heuristic Website Review -

More information:

http://www.deyalexander.com.au/resources/uxd/heuristic-evaluation.html

Sketching for UI Designers

Dec 05

Source is not easy to find…

Почему многие способные люди так и не добиваются успеха? Задавшись этим вопросом, Бенджамин Стайнс, спичрайтер президента Ричарда Никсона и сценарист Голливуда, на протяжении нескольких лет искал на него ответ. И нашел. В результате своих наблюдений он сформулировал 8 отличий успешных людей от закоренелых неудачников.

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Dec 01

starting out: initial roles in the team

Idea Person

• Bring an idea to the team. Passionate about it…
• Unite group members around idea while being able to accept changes to initial idea.

Developer

• Lead development of MVP and help grow the idea into a product.

Designer

• Identify user needs and communicate design deliverables, such as specifications, storyboards, and illustrations.
• Develop new visual product identity, brand experience, and apply design elements to rough sketches and wireframes.

Business Person

• Conduct market research to define problem and customer interaction with the product.

Marketing Person

• Define how the product will be marketed to the customer and help spread the word of your product’s service.

http://www.startupmonthly.org/ice-breaker.html

Nov 07

Creating Personas

http://www.hceye.org/HCInsight-Nielsen.htm

10-step manual

http://www.interactionbydesign.com/presentations/olsen_persona_toolkit.pdf

Persona creation toolkit.

Oct 12

16 pixel body text as a new industry standard

Is not it interesting?

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/07/16-pixels-body-copy-anything-less-costly-mistake/

Oct 07

Sticky first page designs

http://www.wanderfly.com/

http://namesake.com/

http://www.mashape.com/

http://mailchimp.com/

http://www.inkling.com/

http://www.airbnb.com/

I will add explanation later.

Essential website usability tools -

from Mashable

Great article on basics of virality in the social apps -

This blog post by Yee Lee, that explains basics of the viral distribution in a very approachable manner. 

Great stuff!

Some mechanisms that create viral loops -

“Viral Loops typically center on:

1. Contact Lists — e.g., inviting new people thru the process of finding/adding new contacts to a contact list
2. Conversations — e.g., inviting new people by adding them to chats, events, groups, etc.
3. Media — e.g., inviting new people by sharing media/content with them
4. Incentives — e.g., inviting new people to unlock functional or financial incentives”

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Sep 12

Our booth at DEMO 2011 #democonf (Taken with instagram)

Sep 05

Beer tasting! (Taken with Instagram at Anderson Valley Brewing Co.)

Sep 03

Fallic cults of North Americans (Taken with Instagram at Point Arena Lighthouse)

North coast (Taken with Instagram at Point Arena Lighthouse)