I spend quite a bit of time developing websites and other applications for a variety of user audiences and groups. The challenge with developing any type of system or user interface is getting an accurate idea of what the user is experiencing and thinking for themselves. The UserVoice website provides the ability to get the answers you need.

The UserVoice website gives you the ability to listen to your customers and gather their input and thoughts on just about anything you would need.
On other projects we were left frustrated and overwhelmed when trying to grasp what our users really wanted. Unorganized …read more

Today at the Indianapolis Productivity Summit with Robby Slaughter I learned of a really cool website that let’s you do quick and casual mock-ups. The website is called Balsamiq and the example used in the session today was for mocking up a quick idea for a website with general blocks of content, navigation and image placeholders.
The idea presented in the summit by Robby Slaughter was that part of the benefits of loose mockups of user-interfaces, websites and more is that when you keep it casual and quick you don’t get mired down in the details.
The balsamiq website from what I …read more