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	<description>Musings on User experience design and Product management</description>
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		<title>Who is going to use your product? &#8211; Using persona&#8217;s to stay user focused.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Persona’s help to focus on who the product is aimed at. Ask questions like: What does this type of user need? What do they want? What do they like? The answers can help to keep the team focused on who they are building a site for, ensuring that the user is at the forefront of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dnoise.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7161526&amp;post=121&amp;subd=dnoise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Treatments</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Treatments bring the mood boards and wire frames together to give an idea of what the website, application or other product should eventually look and feel like. Early on they allow for a creative space for experimentation, providing the designer with an opportunity to explore different solutions. In my view a designer will throw away [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dnoise.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7161526&amp;post=119&amp;subd=dnoise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why are Mood boards useful?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:07:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visuals communicate things that words cannot. In conjunction with wire frames and prototypes, mood boards contribute a vital role in delivering a product that looks like your client wants it to. A picture is worth a thousand words and mood boards help you create that picture. Mood boards should be informed by brainstorming and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dnoise.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7161526&amp;post=116&amp;subd=dnoise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why use Wire frames?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 13:45:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Wire frame describes a web site or application using black and white lines, text and boxes. They are an extremely fast way of developing the layout, navigation and usability of a website or application. They are quick and easy to change enabling the creation of many variations at minimal cost. They can be created [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dnoise.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7161526&amp;post=110&amp;subd=dnoise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Defining tasks using &#8216;Stories&#8217; and &#8216;Scenarios&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Stories’ are a great way to describe requirements. In defining these stories you also define tasks that need to be completed by the development team and give the tester an idea of what they need to test. The writing of Stories should help keep the understanding of what a task is simple and accessible to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dnoise.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7161526&amp;post=107&amp;subd=dnoise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Requirements capture through Brainstorming</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When capturing requirements from clients or stakeholders a good way to start  is to hold a brainstorming session.  Asking people to contribute to a brainstorming session for a new product or feature is a great way to gather information and get people involved and emotionally invested in the project. Invite all stakeholders and key representatives [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dnoise.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7161526&amp;post=103&amp;subd=dnoise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why prototype?</title>
		<link>http://dnoise.wordpress.com/2011/07/28/why-prototype/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 11:58:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prototypes can be used to explore how a users navigate through a site or reach goals using a feature. They provide a great way of testing usability before development starts. Help to gather user (or business) requirements Enable you to think through different scenarios and possibilities You can try out different solutions Aid communication with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dnoise.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7161526&amp;post=101&amp;subd=dnoise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Create a draggable windowless WPF in Expression blend</title>
		<link>http://dnoise.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/create-a-draggable-windowless-wpf-in-expression-blend/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:29:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Open expression blend and design your WPF Follow this tutorial to create a windowless WPF with a close button: http://expression.microsoft.com/en-us/cc188959.aspx Follow this tutorial to create a windowless WPF with a minimize button http://blogs.msdn.com/danteg/archive/2008/01/16/getting-the-vista-minimize-with-windowless-applications.aspx Then to make your windowless WPF draggable type this into your XAML: &#60;Thumb x:Name="myThumb" Width="719" Height="19" DragDelta="onDragDelta" Margin="0,0,81,0" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Opacity="1" VerticalAlignment="Top" Grid.Column="2"/&#62; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dnoise.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7161526&amp;post=73&amp;subd=dnoise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Designer and coder or Designers and coders?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 19:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am at a web development company that splits up the work flow thus: Illustrators, Designers, Front End coders, Developers, Producers, Beggar man and Thief. I am contracting as a Front End coder. I spend my days coding XHTML, CSS and a little JavaScript. I miss being involved with the design aspect of developing a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dnoise.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7161526&amp;post=68&amp;subd=dnoise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The power of taking notes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 06:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I advise to always take a notebook and pen into meetings and take notes. It helps to keep focused and the ink will not fade unlike memory. The notes can be a great tool to help review the meetings content and as a reference should you become unsure of anything. Taking notes also helps to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dnoise.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7161526&amp;post=58&amp;subd=dnoise&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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