• Sep 02, 2012

    Notes of "Zen of Palm" - 3 Design Practice (I)

    After talking about Palm’s design philosophy, now we look at how they design in practice. As always, let’s start from doing a quiz. As you can see, this quiz keeps up the same idea as the last one. They all describe the ...

  • Aug 27, 2012

    Notes of "Zen of Palm" - 2 Design Philosophy

    Palm sums up its design philosophy in three points: Palm solutions are user-centric; Palm Powered handhelds can be used anywhere, anytime; Palm OS applications have a specific focus. Among them, the first one is now...

  • Aug 23, 2012

    Notes of "Zen of Palm" - 1 Preface

    This series of articles is basically a translation from my original Chinese articles which were posted about 4 years ago. I wanted to buy a PDA in the spring of 2004, and was hesitating for a long time between the Pa...

  • Jul 27, 2012

    The definitive guide to Web flowcharts

    About four years ago, I wrote a blog post (in Chinese) about Web flowcharts design. It was, and still is, very popular. Today, I'm thrilled to publish the long-awaited follow-up article: The definitive guide to Web flowcharts. ...

  • Mar 02, 2009

    产品设计师-这才是吸引人的工作

    厌倦了身为UI设计师却只能在既定需求范围内做文章?或者作为产品经理却被UI设计师“剥夺”了设计细节或写代码的乐趣?那你应该像我一样对Facebook的这个Product Designer职位感兴...

  • Dec 18, 2008

    为什么网页设计不应强调分工 2

    上文讲到过分工不合适的原因,这次想和大家探讨一下我的一些关于如何解决问题的想法: 1. “架构+设计+研究”的分工 简单地说,就是架构组负责底层建设和方向引领,设计组负责设计和实现,研究组负...

  • Dec 15, 2008

    为什么网页设计不应强调分工 1

    JunChen在最近的一篇《为何XHTML原型会失败》中说出了一个实质问题,即在快速变化的互联网公司中,非XHTML原型只是“看上去很美”而已。 究其原因。除了JunChen提到的“难以维护”...

  • Oct 29, 2008

    User Friendly 2008第二、三天印象

    第一天的印象和笔记见这里。 量化和评估用户体验 在这次的UF2008大会上,我不止一次听到了有人提到量化用户体验的重要性,如黄峰在他的主题演讲中,强调在每一个版本发布前后,要通过数据对结果进...

  • Mar 26, 2008

    说说互联网公司内设计师的分工

    我坚信一点:对于大部分互联网公司来说,设计师完全不需要太多的分工,我认为一个小而精的架构组、一个用户研究组和一个设计师组就能够很好的适应互联网公司的需求了。 先说架构组 就像软件开发中的情况...

  • Dec 28, 2007

    初探用户体验架构(“有感于与三通的对话”续篇)

    如果你没读过我之前的那篇“有感于与三通的对话”的话,我强烈建议你先花几分钟时间去看看,因为本文将在这篇文章的基础上展开进一步的讨论。 我上次提到了“规范”的重要性,其实“规范”这个词本身具有相...