Fresh Ideas

Live at UX Fest! This week we do a special show in front of a live audience (just like the Cosby Show). We breakdown the concepts behind MVP, talk about how they have been bastardized over the past few years, and what…

In the wake of Steve’s Future of Web Design talk on prototyping there were a series of blog posts written about the collaborative process behind the launch of the new Entertainment Weekly mobile site. We talk about that process, some reasons we…

This week on the show, we kick off a new series called, “What is the design process.” Each show in the series will deep-dive into a different part of the design process; this we we talk about Wireframes and Prototyping. We also…

In the last six months I’ve become obsessed with my own development workflow. I’ve been attempting to optimize the tools I use, slim down the number of tools in my kit, and build repositories of starter code. The goal with my starter…

About twice a week I find myself explaining to startups why it’s better to invest your time in building a web prototype of your application than wasting hundreds of hours on a 50 page business plan no-one is going to read. Below…

I was on the phone to a client yesterday talking about the way the mobile application development industry is changing. Traditionally the applications are cobbled together in a horizontal way by “gluing” the various code stakes together with custom middle ware. This…