Timothy Keirnan interviews Andy Budd, author of CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions and creative director of Clearleft, a user experience design consultancy in Brighton, England.Andy and Tim discuss the following items:* Giving site builders wireframes and prototypes instead of text-intensive design specifications.* How guerilla usability testing fits into the user experience design process and how it may offer more value than big-budget summative testing.* Where Andy will be speaking across England, New Zealand, and Australia over the next several weeks.* The value of attending small or large professional conferences and how Clearleft designs its annual d.Construct conference.You can see Andy at the following conferences over the next few weeks:www.futureofwebdesign.comwww.chinwag.com/events/2008/04/chinwag-live-real-world-usabilityhttp://webstock.org.nz/upcoming/http://ux08.webdirections.org/One of Tim's favorite professional books is the oldie-but-goodie Interface Design: The Art of Developing Easy-to-Use Software by Peter Bickford. You can find used copies of this out-of-print gem easily enough online.Clearleft is at www.clearleft.comAndy mentioned Silverback and you can learn about it at www.andybudd.com/archives/2008/02/silverback/Andy mentioned "bar camps":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BarCampAnd finally, you can learn more about the annual D.Construct conference atwww.dconstruct.org

[ Sun, 20 Apr 2008 03:44:00 GMT ]

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