Brian Dys

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User Experience Design

Uncoordinated Stream of Design Deliverables

Published on 13 Mar 2020 18:19:57

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I have often seen UX designers present bewildered development teams with an uncoordinated stream of design deliverables that define what they need to build—for example, Adobe Photoshop or XD screen designs, Figma prototypes, Confluence documents, and Excel spreadsheets, along with some hand-coded HTML and JavaScript. Plus, UX teams often seem oblivious or uncaring about the problems their use of multiple, disparate tools causes development teams. Indeed, development teams themselves are sometimes unaware that their job could be so much easier if UX teams used fewer tools and used their tools in a more coordinated manner.
Ritch Macefield in User Experience and the Big Picture, Part 1: Problems, Problems

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The Ride

There Are No Little Things

Published on 3 Mar 2020 15:17:33

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Sometimes, when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things—a chance word, a tap on the shoulder, or a penny dropped on a newsstand—I am tempted to think there are no little things.
Bruce Barton

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The Ride

Entry 2200

Published on 2 Mar 2020 14:03:45

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It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn’t in the middle of the room. Life isn’t a support-system for art. It’s the other way around.
Stephen King in On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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Product Design Management

Entry 2160

Published on 27 Feb 2020 11:09:52

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Organizations need guideposts. They need an outline; employees need to know each day when they wake up why they’re going to work. This outline should be short and sweet, and all encompassing: Why do you exist? What motivates you? I call this a mantra — a three or four-word description of why you exist.
Guy Kawasaki

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The Ride

Of Leeways and Disappointments

Published on 20 Jan 2020 08:13:12

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Upon reaching the vicinity of The Medical City, I found out that the small zippered compartment of my backpack was open. Probably because I walked and crossed Ortigas Ave. using the footbridge.

The footbridge is notorious for pickpockets—hooligans who would position themselves behind unknowing pedestrians wearing backpacks. In a flick of a finger with the featherlike touch, they could unzip bags and take wallets or mobile phones. Or your lunch if it looks very scrumptious.

The traffic view from The Medical City footbridge in Ortigas Ave.

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Frontend Design

The Design of Target Areas

Published on 20 Dec 2019 07:57:03

Updated on 20 Dec 2019 07:57:03

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A target area in a website or app is an area that enables a user to interact with the interface through touch or a pointing device such as a mouse.

Examples are links, buttons, form elements, etc.

According to Fitts’s law, “the time required to rapidly move to a target area is a function of the ratio between the distance to the target and the width of the target”.

For a target area to be easily tapped or clicked by the user, its area must be adequate enough to be interacted upon.

Visually, it may appear small (such as an icon), however, it could still have an adequate target area.

See the Pen The Design of Target Areas by Brian Dys (@briandys) on CodePen.