Five Sketches™

On Agile product design, I read:
If you tell someone about a great idea, and they say “That’s a great idea,” it’s not a pattern.
If you tell someone a great idea, and they say “Yes, we do something like that too,” that’s a pattern.
 Exactly! That’s why I speak about Five Sketches™ at conferences and professional development sessions. And […]

Leah Buley talked about generative design at the South by Southwest Interactive conference, today. Buley feels design methods are lacking in the set of professional tools we use for software development: “We don’t have so many good, reliable, repeatable design techniques.” I agree with her.
Buley tells how, in her first design session at Adaptive Path, she was handed a pen and […]

I came across a software-design approach similar to Five Sketches™. It’s called Design Studio, and was developed in the USA. I was intrigued to learn about Design Studio. When separate teams develop a similar response to the same challenge, it validates both solutions. In this case, the challenge is to support software developers as they design the mental models, interaction, […]