Software

I recently read a blog post that claimed the best tool for clickable, interactive prototypes is Figma… because most people just need to make simple click-throughs. The author claimed that few really need “complex” prototyping. I couldn’t disagree more. UX design is more than clicking through the happy path. And if you are sending something […]

In September 2018, Skype made the tech news announcing that a redesign would be coming, roughly a year after their last redesign. The goal would be to simplify and remove many of the features they added the year before. These new features were designed to emulate Snapchat and (supposedly) attract younger customers. The backlash was […]

How do you gather people together? You and some of your friends want to go on a hike. How do you coordinate that? You have lots of options… Facebook post Facebook Messenger Facebook event Email SMS WhatsApp Signal Telegram Meetup.com Semaphor Discord Slack HipChat/Stride Twist Trello board And probably more. So how do you do […]

I’m writing a new course and asking some excellent people to be my editors. This means they all need NDAs so they keep my secrets until the course comes out. With a pile of NDAs to send out, why not use an online signing tool? That’ll be easier for everybody (I hope). I decided to […]

As a companion to our beloved Understanding Axure Conditions blog post, here’s one about all of the actions available inside the Axure case editor. And remember that we have lots of Axure Training options available if you or your team need more help. Open Link Quite simply, this will open a page from your Axure […]

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Starting a business in Italy meant signing plenty of documents. Italy uses a formalized and centralized legal document signing system. It has a lot of interesting pieces so I wanted to tell you about it. Let’s compare Italy’s InfoCert with DocuSign. Starting with InfoCert. Verified by a human. I had to fill out forms. Then […]

A few months ago the mastermind group I’m in was discussing where we all sell our online courses. Mine were mostly on Udemy. People grumbled about Udemy and said there’s a better way. OK, I’m in this group to learn these things! Many recommended Teachable Teachable [my affiliate link or if you don’t like those, […]

I recently signed up for a service. My account is a child account to someone who passes me a discount on the service. After my account was set up, I of course explored every page I could find. I went into settings. Account information had the info of the parent account, the guy who sets […]

Sometimes when I talk about prototyping and Axure, there is someone who thinks Axure shouldn’t exist; we should all just be writing code. Well should we? Part of the problem with answering this is that I’m not a programmer. I can’t compare my own coding work vs my Axure work. I can only compare my […]