How do you design a software application in 3 days at a conference? Earlier this year my colleague James Murtagh, a Marketing Manager, pitched the idea of ‘Red Gate Live … Continue reading
July 17, 2012
by Michele Ide-Smith
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Category Archives: User Experience
April 23, 2012
by Michele Ide-Smith
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UX London in sketchnotes
Last week our UX team were lucky enough to attend UX London 2012 for three days of inspiration, learning and networking. I’ve been practising sketchnoting (aka visual notetaking) since UX Cambridge … Continue reading
April 17, 2012
by Michele Ide-Smith
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Sketchnotes from a talk by Peldi from Balsamiq
This week Peldi from Balsamiq visited Red Gate. I’m an avid fan of Balsamiq Mockups. It’s a very simple, sketchy wireframing tool which our team uses a lot for early designs and wireframes. … Continue reading
January 20, 2012
by Adam Parker
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When does your user’s experience end?
As UX practitioners we spend a lot of effort into engaging users early on in their experiences with our products. Where does their experience end though? When should we stop … Continue reading
January 17, 2012
by Tom Randle
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UX Yoda
If you haven’t already, and you’re on twitter, you should start following UX Yoda. All geeks seem to like to affiliate themselves with Star Wars, Pirates and Ninjas but Yoda … Continue reading
November 21, 2011
by Jon Boardman
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Combining UX and Agile for designing complex products
It seems like the UX blogosphere is awash with posts and thoughts on how to get UX and Agile to work well together. It’s a hot topic here at Red … Continue reading
November 17, 2011
by Jenny
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The Agile/ UX Panel at UX Cambridge 2011
The first UX Cambridge event was run by Software Acumen and took place on the 10th and 11th November at Clare College’s new Gillespie Conference Centre. The event was primarily aimed at the East … Continue reading
October 28, 2011
by Laura Morley
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Lean UX: Lean On Me?
Sisyphus has found some friends! Bear with me; this really is about UX – it’s something we learned in the latest of our regular “UX Lunch” video sessions here at … Continue reading
October 22, 2011
by Tom Randle
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What an online checkout would look like in real life
We just came across this great Google Analytics advert sending up online checkouts. Perhaps if more companies tried to imagine what their checkout process would be like in the world … Continue reading
September 1, 2011
by Richard A. Muscat
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A brilliant move from Google
Without much fanfare Google innocently just launched a new Chrome extension: the Google +1 Button for Chrome. This is a brilliant move from Google and I wouldn’t be surprised to … Continue reading