Paper Prototypes Rule

(Image from Jack Dorsey’s Flickr)
I have to admit that using Visio is superawesome when it comes to sketching out wireframes and interactions (especially with Nick Finck’s stencils), but you should never discount the importance of paper prototypes.
There’s a great post about it on Deep Linking called The Paper Version of the Web. Read it!
I wish [...]

Dear Agency, you suck!

It’s ironic that I should be posting something like this because, well duh, I do work in advertising.
But if you’re a client of an ad agency and you want to give them the boot, try out this cool new app called Dear Agency.
It creates a letter that you can send to your agency to fire [...]

Usability Labs and Testing Centers of the World

While we’re on the subject of Google Maps, check out this map for usability testing labs and testing centers around the world from the Knowledge Communities Research Group at Florida State University.
Pretty cool, huh?
And if you think they’ve missed out a usability lab, you can even suggest a lab for their database.