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Sketching

  • By monocle
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  • UX, Work

Sketching up a responsive site before going into wireframing and mood boards tomorrow. Using my new UIStencils for sketching, UX Movement's Interface Library 3.5 and the Less Framework stencils for wireframing.

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User Interfaces and cyberpunk aesthetics

  • By monocle
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  • scifi, UX

One of the projects I'm working on next year is a research project about cyberpunk as a body of intellectual work. I'll also be look at cyberpunk as a design aesthetic. As part of this research I will be looking at a number of specific businesses that have embodied cyberpunk values. The 3 big businesses that I want to look at are Microsoft, Google and IBM. So I was interested to see a number of advertisements for Google and Microsoft products that still seem to be tied into a very specific cyberpunk style. The android advertisement below very blatantly references Tron, one of the first cyberpunk films. The second references Minority Report. A number of writers have contrasted the cold, machinelike cyberpunk aesthetic in these ads with the human-focused connectivity, 'invisible interface' of Apple products, and the earthy, imperfect future described by Berg. The UX folks at Google seem to...

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Prototyping

  • By monocle
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  • UX

I've been using Keynotopia and Invision to put together some clickable prototypes for an iPhone project. Remarkably quick, great way to get an idea in someone's hands, rather than writing up a dry, flat specification. Basically, you create the screens in Powerpoint, export them to jpegs, upload them to Invision, and then just run through and add clickable areas. Great for simplifying content flows, and makes it very obvious when there's a gap in your information architecture. Running up a 20 screen prototype took about 2 hours. I had it in the client's hands 3 hours later, and had sign off on the project in about 15 minutes.

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Final Jurassic Lounge next Tuesday

  • By monocle
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  • writing

The final Jurassic Lounge for this season is coming up next Tuesday! Come down to see DJ/VJ sets by eightfilters and subpixel, and a hiphop flavoured set from Xav from Decoder Ring. Acid Stag will be DJing in the Indigenous Australia room. Also check out VJ Sustenance and her VJ guitar! Live V-tar AV set at Zeropoint, Oxford Art Factory, 4-8-2011 from vj sustenance on Vimeo.

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