In 2006 I gave the industry keynote at OzCHI. I lamented the current state of user-centred design, expressed concern that there weren't enough skilled practitioners and suggested we should be focusing more on design and less on user-centred.Twelve years have passed....
More than ever, executives and managers are realising that the user experience (UX) of their products and services is crucial to the bottom line, and that that experience can be designed. As a result, it’s not only UX designers...
In this episode, we hear Donna talk about: The art and science of designing a conference 2016 conference attendees selecting topics for presentations combining presentations into a coherent flow how to design the flow of people and their interactions between...
Full day workshop. Tuesday 26 August 2014 Description New to UX? Or doing UX but need a better understanding of some techniques? Manage or work with user experience designers and not sure what they do? This workshop is for you....
Full day workshop. Tuesday 27 August 2013 Description New to UX? Or doing UX but need a better understanding of some techniques? Manage or work with user experience designers and not sure what they do? This workshop is for you....
Originally published by UXmas. Please note this was a deliberately controversial post (I think some of the commenters didn't quite get that). 5 Popular UX Techniques I Rarely Use 5. Sketching I rarely sketch. I don’t own a pencil...
This full day workshop will provide you with a thorough overview and understanding of user experience design. It will cover a range of fundamental UX skills that can be applied to all types of project – websites, web applications, traditional applications and mobile....
This full-day workshop teaches a set of fundamental principles about humans, useful for all types of design work - information architecture, interaction design, visual design and even industrial design. In the workshop we’ll look at: How our visual system works Visual...
This half-day workshop teaches a set of fundamental principles that are useful for all types of design work – information architecture, interaction design, visual design and even industrial design
This is a talk I gave at Murdoch Uni. I wasn’t sure what to call it, but it basically covers principles of good website work – user research, good IA, great content, setting priorities and maintaining good work
A hands-on workshop with user experience expert, Donna Maurer, and CSS
expert, Russ Weakley.
Over two full days you will build detailed websites layouts from the ground up – starting with page layout, navigation and form design; and ending with clean markup and elegant styling using XHTML/CSS.
Originally published by Digital Web Magazine: Usability for rich internet applications After struggling for years to design Internet applications around the limitations of HTML, I have been very excited by the recent release of a range of Internet applications with...
This article provides an overview of what usability is (and what it is not). It provides ideas on how to include more usability activities in projects and the types of activities that are needed in order to create more usable systems.