Class Notes : Sketching User Experiences

We’ve been reading Sketching User Experiences by Bill Buxton. Which is a lot more about design process than the title implies. Below are some notes from the text. I’ve also included a video presentation by Buxton from the 2008 Design Strategy Conference. It highlights many of the book’s concepts and expounds on others.
The difference between UI (user
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A friend recently invited me to test Dropbox - an online backup / FTP replacement / cloud computing service. Or more simply stated, a place to store electronic files. There are quite a few services out there like it, but the difference I found in Dropbox was through its presentation. The Dropbox homepage is just a video and a download button.
The other simple principal Dropbox
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