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My name is Jiri Jerabek and I'm UX consultant and MSc student of Human-Computer Interaction with Ergonomics at UCL.This blog serves as a place to share my opinions, thoughts and notes on interaction design, user experience and HCI.
Category Archives: Thoughts on Design
A few notes on Lean UX talk by Jeff Gothelf – London IA February 2012
I was fortunate enough to secure my ticket for this month’s London IA event, and I was really looking forward to hearing Jeff Gothelf‘s talk about Lean UX, especially about usability testing and gathering user feedback in agile environment. I … Continue reading
Design by Committee – How Doggie and Pussycat Made a Cake
When I was a child, I loved the book All About Doggie and Pussycat by Josef Capek, Czech writer and painter, who invented the word “robot” for his brother’s play R.U.R. The stories of Doggie and Pussycat are very well-known … Continue reading
10 short design lessons from Dieter Rams
Dieter Rams, a man who was responsible for the design of Braun’s products for almost 30 years until 1998, is one of the living icons of the product design icons of the 20th century, His designs were a deep source of inspiration and it looks like this trend will continue for some time. When you look on his work you can almost feel the sturdiness, usefulness and innovation.
What I really like about Dieter Rams are his !0 principles of good design. Most of them, if not all, apply not only to product design, but also to UI design and I believe that to design in general. Continue reading
User Experience Design in context of Graphic Design
Right, here you can see the presentation I did in November 2009 as a part of the “Graphic Design in Context” module I did at uni.
The presentation explains the context and role of the Graphic Design in designing the User Interface and UX overall. It mainly concentrates on visual design of the User Interface, but also mentions some obvious problems and most important cornerstones of the User-Centered Design.
Although I would write it in a quite different way today and despite I feel that some of my assumptions could be vastly improved, I still think that the presentation is worth viewing. Continue reading
How it all started
Welcome, traveller! This blog is going to serve as a place for sharing my thoughts on Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction, User Experience Design and design in general.
The journey begins
In the early days of my web design and development career, that is about 6 – 7 years ago, I was mainly concerned with designing nice visuals and writing a clean and semantic code. Accessibility, and SEO were slowly becoming buzzwords and I was learning about W3C guidelines and standards, about WCAG and on-page optimisation factors. Continue reading
