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About Adducive
About Adducive, Brian Krause, and his user interface design consulting company.
Partial list of clients of Adducive, a Silicon Valley user interface design consultancy.
Highlights of Brian Krause's software development consulting career.
Bio of user interface designer Brian Krause, and background of his company, Adducive.
User Interface Design Consulting Services
An overview of user interface design services offered by Adducive.
A case study of the design of the Gentle Reminder iPhone app.
Adducive designs and develops mobile applications, specializing in iPhone apps.
IVR Scriptwriting and application design services
Adducive designs and develops mobile applications, specializing in iPhone apps.
A case study of the design of the moofuslist iPhone app, focusing on achieving the feeling of speed. This goes far beyond screenshot-based design.
A prototype is a great way to explain a design to a project team, and my technical background makes it easy for me to produce them for my clients.
An outside perspective on a product you already have can be a good first step to solving user interface design problems
Usability testing is a well-known and visible way to find design flaws, but it also develops empathy among the development team for a system's users.
A fixed-price critique of your mobile app, website, IVR, or speech recognition system.
Philosophy
Articles originally published here and elsewhere about user interface design.
Assigning personality traits to others is an irrepressible instinct that can be applied to product design.
Compared to desktop software or web services, user interfaces for enterprise application software have different goals, a larger scale and a sales model that excludes end users. How do you keep end users from being overlooked?
Two letters printed in TechWeek: one on software design, team roles and scheduling, the other on a layout problem.
A two minute video covering the history and future of user interfaces gets me thinking that the future may be no better than the past unless technologists learn that it's their attitudes toward people and not their adoption of technology that matters.
For security to be effective, it has to be convenient. That means designing to relieve the burdens of everyday users and system administrators instead of adding new ones. Companies that ignore this will fail to increase security.
Ten things that have been said to me by actual clients represent common and very human reactions to the software design process. Software team members who haven't worked with UI designers before discount the importance of small details and even the designer's role. How can we win them over?
How do designers and their clients develop confidence in a design? Learn from television and my fashion mistakes to find out.
By abandoning the traditional idea of a spec in favor of a usable spec, you can deliver something that's fun to show off, easy to understand, and confidence-inspiring.
It is possible to create acceptable-quality prompts for over-the-phone speech recognition and IVR systems without hiring a professonal recording studio, especially for a quick demo or rough draft. I have used conference rooms and my living room, and recommended to one client that he use his car.
Tips to dramatically improve your prompts for date/time combinations, dollar amounts, and phone numbers, common items in interactive voice response (IVR) software.
An organized script makes a recording session run efficiently, and directly improves the quality of the recordings. Seven tips for how to prepare your scripts.
Examples from the translation of two applications from English to Japanese show that even apparently simple, common items--names, numbers, answers to simple questions--pose a wide range of surprising challenges for both speech input and output.
A poem describing the syntax of the Nuance Grammar Specification Language (GSL)
Companies put a lot of effort into finding the right voice and making clean recordings, but pay very little attention to scriptwriting for their IVR systems.
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