Aarron Walter

I ran a day long workshop at Future of Web Design called “Interface Design Bootcamp“. In the workshop we learned how to conceptualize an app to connect people at an event like the Future of Web Design Conference using design personas and sketchboards. Ryan Carson sat in on my workshop and wrote a nice post on Think Vitamin about the sketchboarding process.

The workshop was so perfectly timed as the UX Sketchbook I’ve been working on had just rolled off the presses, and it was time to take it for a serious test drive. As I mentioned earlier here, the UX Sketchbook was really designed to support quick ideation, and specifically, sketchboarding.

I snapped a few pics from the conference to document the fun we were having with the new sketchbooks. You can view all of the workshop photos on Flickr.

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I’m a big fan of prototyping over wireframing because there’s just so much of an interface you can miss if you don’t actually use it as you design it. I typically use simple HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for higher fidelity prototypes, and for lower fidelity stuff I use Keynote.

InVision offers a clever new way to create prototypes quickly. Design individual screens in your favorite app like Photoshop or Omnigraffle, then upload the entire batch to InVision to add hot spots to create functional workflows. It’s simple, and really fast to use.

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Links and resource came fast and furious in my talk at An Event Apart Boston. To make your life easier, I’ve assembled all of the resources I mentioned into a handy little list. Feel free to share this with your colleagues.

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I recently conducted a day long “Interface Design Bootcamp” workshop in New York at the Future of Web Design. We covered a lot of territory including user research, personas, wireframes, sketchboards, prototypes, and usability testing. There are so many useful resources freely available on the Web that make the job of a user experience designer easier. Here are a few of the UX resources discussed and the slides from the workshop.

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Last week, I had my ass handed to me by what seemed like a failing hard drive, but turned out to be a dead hard drive controller in my MacBook Pro. Luckily I had backups, but a near data loss experience can put the fear of God into you, and compels a closer consideration about how your data is managed. I ended up putting a new 240 GB SSD into a different MacBook Pro, replacing my old 500 GB hard drive that was reaching its limits of storage. If you do the math there, you’ll recognize that I was left in a quandary as to how I would store and manage my gigs and gigs of music, movies, and photos.

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I’m co-presenting with Leslie Jensen-Inman and Glenda Sims a workshop called “Dive Into the Modern Web” today at Web Directions US in Atlanta, GA. This workshop will help educators and self-guided learners get up to speed with the changing landscape of the modern Web.

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