Recently I’ve been asked the following question a few times, and I wanted to share my take on the answer: “Why do designers sometimes go into a lot of detail with designs when we’re just looking for a simple answer?” It’s one of the challenges most of us design-folk (wherever…

Experiment, iteration and possibilities are just a few of the terms we designers are familiar with and we use these techniques frequently to help us solve problems. Sometimes when we begin to explore a problem there can be a whole conglomerate of possible solutions; whether it’s an interface design, VUI…

Essentially, this play does what it says on the tin, think about what’s in orbit for people who use your product or service — this can be in terms of physical devices or general touch points for your solution. This is a way to track and communicate the convenience of…

Interactions start with questions, more specifically people asking something of you / your design / your solution. We should, as designers, be considering our people’s reactions to their environment and experiences as well as their interactions as ‘users’. To go with a complete cliché for a moment — and I…

Playing is a great way to get creative, to innovate, solve problems and explore the twists and turns of your team’s creation. We play to manipulate; to understand, creating a set of rules and change variables within these parameters to see how things play-out. …

Since I’ve been working in the UX team here at IRESS, I’ve enjoyed the multitude of ways in which my background in theatre has crossed over into the technology world. …