UX & IA Design Thinking

I have been thinking about posting a Axure 9 UI review for a while now. In this video I explore some of the differences between the two versions of the Prototyping tool. Overall most of the core features are the same such as creating shapes, text blocks, and formatting. In Axure 9 they have allowed you to personalize the location and size of your tool panes. They have also changed around the interactions panel to be more streamline and not take up as much space. All of this takes a little bit of time to get use to but once you start working with it for some time it will become second nature. Check out the video below, I hope to create more videos around additional features within Axure 9.

Ok, I finally did it! I did my first live stream on youtube and people actually showed up! Yeah it was not millions of designers looking for help but its a start. It was not promoted, and kinda a last minute thing on my part. I had a few request from some people to do one so I figured why not. If you want to get alerted about my next one please subscribe to my youtube channel here: Subscribe to my Channel I hope to do more steams soon. Please comment on this post on what types of things you want me to cover and I will try my best to fit them all in.

I have recently had the need to create some different data visualizations for recent clients. I really enjoy the challenge on how to create new design elements that are both visually compelling but also provide really valuable data to the user. The need was to create some conceptual examples of different data visualzations to compare local wifi usages. I usually start out by sketching a few ideas out and here is an example of that. After I have a pretty good idea of what it should look like based on the user needs identified I then jump into either Sketch or Axure. I found a really easy way to create donut charts in Axure by converting a ellipse shape to a dynamic shape that you can adjust the handles to resize the size of the pie. This shape will be your variable percentage. This is really great because it is super easy for you to change the size of the pie without having to re-draw the circle. The next step is to create a light gray fill circle the same height/width as your other obj...

This video is the first of many tutorials that will get you started with learning a new tool for your designer toolbox. Take a moment to check it out and subscribe to my channel .