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Deliverables Training Workshop, June 26th!

Come join us on June 26th at the Strathmore near Washington, DC for a half-day workshop on creating deliverables using EightShapes Unify.
You’ll learn how to use our templates & libraries to quickly create effective deliverables, use essential InDesign features for creating user experience documents, plan deliverables, reuse page layouts, and thread in your design by [...]

Chapter Page Updates

In the next release of EightShapes Unify, we’ll have a new chapter master page that includes:

Larger Chapter Title font size
Chapter description (optional, delete it if you don’t want it)
Chapter topic list (optional, delete it if you don’t want it)

Watch the video below for a brief demonstration.

Personas Page Patterns

Thanks to Will Evans, who’s provided a couple more page patterns for the research category. You can download the PDF to view the patterns, or use the InDesign snippets with the EightShapes Unify set of deliverables. You can read his detailed post on Design Ethonography that includes branded versions of the same templates, or read [...]

Page Design Review

Coming out of the IA Summit 2009, Russ Unger was happy to lend a new page design review template to the EightShapes Unify suite of page patterns. The template enables you to place a screenshot on the left, and annotate it with a basic description and recommendations.
Download: PDF | InDesign Snippet
From Russ’ paper description: “This [...]

Announcing EightShapes Unify!

EightShapes Unify is a collection of templates, libraries, and other assets that enable user experience designers to create more consistent, effective deliverables faster. The system utilizes the Adobe Creative Suite of products; primarily, Adobe InDesign is the key authoring tool.
The system is often used by designers – and larger user experience teams – to rapidly [...]

 
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