White board with different color markers. Make sure your used are part of the design process. Give them the say in the design.
We are in the middle of a complete site redesign at the moment. Hopefully going to launch it by November 1. -----Original Message----- From: Jerry Milo Johnson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 6:22 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Need suggestions - Interface design brainstorm Paper. Pencil. Scissors. Tape. Highlighters. Yellow Stickies. Most people remember (fondly) their elementary school experience with art and design. At that age, everyone was good, and there was little fear. In my experience, using tools they are familiar with and comfortable with gets by a whole slew of issues. Also, any technical issues with electronic tools eat time and break trains of thought. The phrase "hold on, let me try this" kills any good thought or momentum you have going. And those tools scale well to as many people as you have. On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 9:15 AM, C. Hatton Humphrey <[email protected]> wrote: > > Next week I am going to be sitting down with around 8 non-technical > people to "re-evaluate" the interface for our intranet application. > Functionally and at the data level, the application works. From a > user interface perspective, however, the thing is "clunky" and because > of that has not had a lot of user buy-in. > > I want to come in to this meeting prepared to build some kind of paper > or electronic mock-up of the various interface points. What kind of > resources would any of you bring to this kind of a meeting? We're not > talking puppies and parasols here, this is an intranet application for > handling payroll, benefits and bills. The current site has a straight > forward HTML interface with some very light AJAX. > > So, what kinds of tools do you think I should prepare? > > Thanks! > > Until Later! > C. Hatton Humphrey > http://www.eastcoastconservative.com > > No trees were killed in the sending of this message, but a large > number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:337528 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
