2014 | Su-Laine Yeo Brodsky – User Experience Designer

5 Tips for Conducting a Software Design Review

Author: Su-Laine Yeo BrodskyOn: Oct 02Categories: Design Process No Comments

Here’s another of my answers on Quora: I assume you’re talking about internal cross-functional review meetings, not expert heuristic reviews, brainstorming sessions, design studio workshops, or presentations to clients. In this kind of meeting,...

What is the best process for simplifying a user interface and experience?

Author: Su-Laine Yeo BrodskyOn: Sep 09Categories: Uncategorized No Comments

Over on Quora, this question gave me the chance to talk about my favourite piece of design advice: “The best advice I ever got on design process is: Design for the most common task first and make that task simple. Then refactor your design for less...

A Responsive Web Development Project for Vancouver Quakers

Author: Su-Laine Yeo BrodskyOn: Aug 14Categories: Case Studies No Comments

Revised website theme on laptop and phone

A Responsive Web Development Project for Vancouver Quakers

Case Studies

The Vancouver Quakers are a non-profit organization with a WordPress-based website. As a volunteer project in 2014, I revised their site to make it mobile device-friendly and more accessible to people with disabilities. The Existing Site Until mid-2014,...

Designing XMetaL’s Conditional Text Feature

Author: Su-Laine Yeo BrodskyOn: May 15Categories: Case Studies 3 Comments

Designing XMetaL’s Conditional Text Feature

Case Studies

SUMMARY: In this project, I led the design effort for a new feature to facilitate content reuse in XML authoring environments. We employed user-centered design methods to create a feature that was compatible with an underlying technology standard, but...

Report on Trends in Information Security

Author: Su-Laine Yeo BrodskyOn: May 14Categories: Publications No Comments

Cover of the SBIC report on Transforming Information Security

Report on Trends in Information Security

Publications

I recently had the pleasure of co-writing and editing a report, in collaboration with Robinson Insight, on trends in information security technology. The report is based on interviews with the Security for Business Innovation Council (SBIC), a group of...