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The complete slides for Finding, Organizing, & Annotating Research from last week’s workshop on research tools and strategy. Slides for the last two modules from the workshop are pending. I will post them as I finish them.

Recording: https://online.bentley.edu:443/GA/main/000001a7907100000131b3fc6bb98821

Status of Workshop Slides, by Module

I.	Finding Research		Done
II.	Organizing Research		Done
III.	Annotating & Tagging		Done
IV.	Citations & Bibliographies		Pending
V.	Using Word to Write Scalable Drafts		Started

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Let me know if you have questions about any of the workshop topics for which slides are not yet available. Please clearly indicate that you are asking about the HFID Research class so I do not confuse you with my students at other schools. Emails with descriptive, unambiguous subject lines will get first priority.  – CB

Don’t know if I’m a little late to the party on this one or not…just discovered a fantastic (and actively curated) collection of IA/UX videos: Jan Jursa’s Information Architecture Television blog.

“The designers were given a nebulous tactic masquerading as a goal. This meant that they had minimal understanding of the true objective of the project, which put them in a poor position to understand the problem and to hone the strategy and tactics to solve it.

To make matters worse, the lack of well-defined high-level goals, strategies and tactics made it difficult for the designers to define the architecture of the experience, in turn making it nearly impossible to set user goals and business goals for every page that needed to be designed.”

For examples on how to resolve situations like this, read the article at Smashing Magazine.

For a limited time only, grab three great visual prototyping tools worth $198 for whatever you want to pay over at UXHeroes.com. That’s a pretty wild promotional experiment and it’ll be interesting to see how generous people are when they can set their own price.

The bundle is NOT a grab bag of random software, it’s a complete visual prototyping workflow:

• Gliffy – collaborate (or not) to easily and quickly diagram site pages and user flows online.
• HotGloo – wireframe without worrying about colors or graphics (also with online collaboration).
• Mocksup – link together your designer’s mockups into an interactive prototype website or app.

Bonus Tool!
Get the above tools for whatever you want to pay but, if you pay an extra $40, you also get…

• Chalkmark – test your wireframes and prototypes with real users. Set them tasks and see how they go about completing them on the page via a heatmap.

So, you get Gliffy, HotGloo, and Mocksup for whatever you want to pay or if you shell out $40+, you get $109 worth of Chalkmark too. At minimum, that’s $40 for a bundle worth $307 (math is good).

Again, it’s a time-limited thing, so grab it while you can.