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Don’t violate fundamental design laws - even if you’re Apple

Amir — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:00:14 +0000

When the iPhone O/S update brought a voice recording feature to the device, I was happily surprised because I love using recorders to take voice notes on the go then transcribe them later on. When I started using the application, I liked the visual skin of the application but was frustrated by its usability: the application, [...]

If you love something, give it away

Amir — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:39:34 +0000

There is very little for me to say after watching this.

D3 - Designing with Clients

Amir — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 01:24:16 +0000

Few months ago, we started experimenting with a new Design workflow that we called D3. D3 stands for Deep Dive Design. Prior to D3, we used a communication-intensive process where we involve clients and users in the input and output of each design iteration: vision, usability metrics, stories, tasks, requirements, brainstorming, sketches, wireframes, and visual [...]

Useful advice from Lao Tzu

Amir — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:44:16 +0000

Act without doing; Think without effort. Think of the small as large, and the few as many. Confront the difficult, while it’s still easy. Accomplish the great task, by a series of small acts.

The Feature is Not The Experience

Amir — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:29:11 +0000

Design thinking for startups

Amir — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:06:24 +0000

During the 2008 web 2.0 expo in San Francisco, I held a round table discussion about design thinking for start-ups. The premise of the discussion was to 1) learn the difference between design (the artifact) and design thinking (the mindset), and 2) to discuss how to integrate best practices for design thinking into the product [...]

Client testimonials’ word cloud

Amir — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:19:48 +0000

During the last startup weekend, a friend pointed me out to a fun tool for creating typographic word clouds called wordle. Today, I decided to play more with it and I gave it the testimonials that clients left in my LinkedIn profile. After some tweaking to the fonts and colors, here is what the output looks [...]

Delve Networks ranked among the top 50 Most Usable RIAs

Amir — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 05:58:21 +0000

Last year I worked with Delve Networks to design their user experience. This week, O’Reilly’s InsideRIA blog mentioned Delve as one of the most usable Rich Internet Applications. Here is what Theresa Neil thought of the design: Delve designers realized content creators weren’t interested in navigating through a bunch of screens to accomplish tasks. They have [...]

DocVerse

Amir — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:52:53 +0000

We worked from DocVerse’s founders from early product incubation to define use case scenarios and user stories, ideate feature designs, define requirements and specifications and we provided iterative designs for the product’s first version. What we delivered Brainstorming sessions, user stories, sketches, wireframes, visual design, HTML and CSS. The Web Viewer The web viewer was designed in Photoshop and [...]

Delve Networks

Amir — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 06:16:40 +0000

Delve Networks is an online video platform and content management system that enables broadcasters to quickly upload, process, and publish their content in one place. From early product ideation, we worked with Delve’s team to create the blueprint for the media library’s user experience. We helped Delve define feature requirements and design a product that leapfrogs [...]