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Wireframing an iPad Casino App
TLDR: Focusing on planning functionality and layout without design is the most efficient way of concentrating decision markers (especially business or product-owners) to agree on functionality without distraction. Think: function over form. Contents Personally I love to use traditional pen and paper for wireframing. How about you? First launch feature areas This is the main ‘shop window’ to your experience. On first…
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Low fidelity prototypes
TLDR: Skip the fancy prototypes! Low-fidelity sketches are fast, cheap, and encourage better feedback – perfect for early UX stages to focus on functionality before aesthetics. Contents basic is still the best? I’ve made a few assumptions here, first… you work in UX. Second, you’re familiar with Agile and third, you haven’t much time so…
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Branding a Russian Hedge Fund
How brand identity works Integrated brand identify both help reputation and consumer awareness. I was tasked with conceptualising a strong brand identity for a new Russian hedge fund. This involves developing routes that generated the tone, style and flavor of the brand across a 2D and 3D environment. This includes, but is not limited to; color…
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Mobile best practice for registration – Put the users needs before technology
User Registration on Mobile Watch the animated version here I have recently been involved in both high-level concept generation through to territory specific text changes in the exiting world of User Registration. These are my top 5 tips to help you streamline your process or find some inspiration. 1. Do not turn-off your client Very…
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What’s your favourite wire-framing style?
Pick your battles, know your styles Whether for desktops, on a tablet or the this mythical idea of a mobile internet (there is only one web to experience – but that a different post!) the modern UX-er should be skilled in the art of wire-framing. The style you use should come from the answers to…
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Russian Graphic Identity
The branding ‘circle’ Working alongside a complete design team can be very rewarding. Like-minded people, working together to inject new meaning into a tired or misleading brand. This project did exactly that. The brand needed a new visual identity that would sit with the design developed by the interiors team. This is how I did…