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Comment by Vineeth Nair on June 10, 2009 at 9:59pm

Hi All,
I have been trying to cmpile information about Usability labs worldwide. Trying to get an overview of how much dedicated space and resources are assigned to UX. Kindly help me with some time of yours....

http://www.surveygizmo.com/s /144726 /user -experience -labs -survey

Looking forward to your responses!

Regards,
Vin

Comment by Kevin Barrack on May 9, 2008 at 4:25pm

Usually I go straight to wireframing (depending on how you define that). I create flow charts, use cases, and rough page/module wireframes as documents to further discussions with engineers, writers, designers and business owners. As discussions progress and decisions get made, the wireframes are updated and completed.

Comment by Lynne Martin on May 8, 2008 at 2:48pm

If I do hand sketches it is rare. The one thing I will do between requirements gathering and wire framing is diagramming user flows for more complex use cases. I find this very helpful and developers seem to respond favorably to this type of artifact.

I'll diagram out the various system responses, user paths, error states, etc. in a work flow for a specific use case. Then I'll bring these to the initial design sessions where I sit with the development team and work through the flow. Then I wire frame, and it's not uncommon to go through 5 rounds or more of revisions in subsequent design sessions (and paper prototyping with whomever I can get my hands on to test our concepts).

Comment by Steve Psomas on May 7, 2008 at 2:28pm

Ok...I'm curious about how many Designers do the same thing I do. After gathering requirements, do you go straight into wireframing in Visio, OmniGraffle, Gliffy, etc? Or do you shuffle around hand-drawn concepts on stickies or pieces of paper? What works best?

Additionally, for those designing for Flex applications, I came across this article on the Adobe site: http://www.adobe.com/resources/business/rich_internet_apps/workflow/
And I'm wondering where UX designers fit into this process?