toddwarfel.com

Summer Talks

zakiwarfel — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:42:36 +0000

Upcoming Appearances and Presentations July 1, 2009 "Advanced Paper Prototyping", at USI 2009 (Paris, FR) July 14, 2009 "Practical Prototyping: Realizing What Your Designs Can Be", Higher Web Ed Symposium (Philadelphia, PA, USA) Aug 6, 2009 "Prototyping in the Wild", DelveNYC (New York, NY, USA) Aug 24, 2009 "Guerilla Research Methods", Agile2009 (Chicago, IL, USA) Aug 24, 2009 "Mission [...]

Design Links

zakiwarfel — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:13:47 +0000

Today’s list of design links include best designs for educational and non-profit websites, in-line jQuery validation, grid systems based on the letter “O”, and an open letter to AA telling them their site sucks. Top 40 Best Designed Non-Profit Websites Top 25 Best Designed Education Websites jQuery Inline Form Validation The Effectiveness of Personas An Open Letter to American Airlines-Your [...]

Effective Prototyping Video

Todd Zaki Warfel — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:37:07 +0000

Here’s a short video clip from the Effective Prototyping workshop I taught for the TriUPA group last year thanks to Abe Crystal. TriUPA “Effective Prototyping” workshop from Abe Crystal on Vimeo.

@garyvee on Passion

Todd Zaki Warfel — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 17:09:51 +0000

Be passionate about what you do. Do what you love no matter what. You can lose a lot of money being happy. In today’s Internet age, opportunities are endless.

Why Haven’t You Submitted to Agile09

Todd Zaki Warfel — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 01:06:08 +0000

This year, Agile09 is in the beautiful city of Chicago in August. The deadline for submitting sessions is coming up quickly—Feb 13th and the User Experience track is in need of submissions. You might be asking why in the world should you submit something to an Agile conference. You might even be asking what in [...]

Persona Templates v2

Todd Zaki Warfel — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:41:03 +0000

Based on a few requests, I’ve included a few versions, including PDF, CS3 and CS4. The CS3 and CS4 versions include a PDF. Grab em. Use em. Spread the wealth and share. Acrobat PDF (568). InDesign and Illustrator CS3 (671k). InDesign and Illustrator CS4 (1.14MB). Here’s a preview of the template. I’ve included two different DNA profile charts. Both charts [...]

First Public Appearance of the Macintosh

Todd Zaki Warfel — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:12:34 +0000

On January 24, 1984, Steve Jobs gave the first public demonstration of the Macintosh. While Steve had more hair back then and even sports a bow-tie, he’s still got that same old showmanship. Happy 25th anniversary Macintosh.

iPhone Stencils

Todd Zaki Warfel — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:15:34 +0000

If you’re designing for the iPhone, here’s a number of great iPhone stencils for OmniGraffle, Photoshop, and Fireworks. Make sure you check out the iPhone Human Interface Guidelines, as well, which requires a developer account. iPhone Stencil for Omnigraffle iPhone GUI PSD by Teehan+Lax iPhone Icon Stencil 320480 iPhone Interface PSD Any of the PSD stencils can be opened [...]

Survey on 6 Prototyping Tools

Todd Zaki Warfel — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:28:42 +0000

Here’s another chance to win a copy of my upcoming Prototyping book. I’ve put together a survey to see how people would rate the following six tools for prototyping: Paper PowerPoint Visio Fireworks Axure HTML Take the survey.

Prototyping with Fireworks CS4-Video

Todd Zaki Warfel — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:15:34 +0000

From Lynda.com, here’s a great video that shows some of the new features of Adobe Fireworks as a prototyping tool. Some of the highlights include: Smartguides Updates to the Pages panel Auto (re)numbering of pages 9 Slice scaling