Happy Birthday, dear Axure book
Five years ago today I released a small e-book on the Amazon Kindle platform called Axure for Mobile. At that time Axure 6.5 was just released, offering quite a few enhancements for mobile prototyping (swiping events, the mobile settings panel, etc.). My book described these new features and offered quite a few hacks which made mobile prototyping way easier.
Man Flu Hiatus
I just had an exacerbation (a word I just barely managed to google, due to my dire state). For the uninformed: man flu is a chronic disease which inevitably leads to death.
Das deutsche Musik-Missverständnis
Warning: German ahead.
Ich höre viel deutsche Musik und das ist immer mal wieder schwierig.
Nicht wegen des Hörens an sich, sondern wegen des Missverständnisses, das entsteht, wenn ich davon erzähle. Denn das Radiogedudel mit den tollen einfachen Botschaften und der super guten Laune meine ich nicht. Sondern diese andere deutsche Musik.
UX Prototyping Trends
For the longest time our discipline seemed to pay only lip service to one of the key activities of UX design: prototyping.
Yes, everybody always states that prototyping is important. Do it often and early on in the process. Always treat your prototypes as experiments. Don’t fall in love with them and last bust not least, always welcome failure.
Right.
Let’s reboot
The other day I thought I should try to take another stab at blogging. My last blog post is from 2014 and was an uninspired embed of a presentation I gave. But that is easier thought than done. Especially if you want to do things “right” – whatever that means.