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The Adventures of UX Hero — The world’s first User Experience comic series
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@clarkvalberg Doing our best to be surrounded and inspired by the real heroes of the digital industry.
Please tell me "ScrollJack" is a supervillain in this comic.
Great idea nonetheless! Excited to read this.
Supercool!
I'm very glad to see others using comic style in their communications.
Props from SuperMonitoring superheroes! :)
I've read #1 - really high quality illustration and interesting intros. Comics have such great potential to be learning tools! I do feel like issue 1 is a little dangerous though: each mini story shows an overnight success by a mysterious injection of wireframes and ideas. That alone indicates that Jonathan Sketch does indeed have superpowers.
Maybe this is just to introduce people to the comics, and you'll go through exactly what Jonathan does to get to those recommendations and wireframes (overnight user interviews?) in following chapters: I really hope so, because this has a lot of potential!
Keep up the good work, looking forward to see where this goes :)
Looks interesting but I'll pass since I only see only one color and one gender in this tech focused comic (based on the images shared). But I'll keep an eye out for the next issue.
@brianllamar Dear Brian, thanks so much for that direct feedback. I have to apologize it you got offended by that and take the responsibility for that. I come from Israel, where we have less than 2% of black people, and don't really have Hispanics and Asians. Regarding gender, actually, this is by chance. We had around 7 case studies we created and we chose these three since we thought they are the best ones. It came out this way, and the message you got is complete opposite to what we all believe in. Following the fact that this is all new for us, I'm happy to accept that feedback. Be sure that this will be taken into consideration in the coming issues. Issue #2 is almost ready and women are rock stars there, as they are in reality and we sure will take that further in issue #3.
Thanks so much for the sincere feedback.
@divjpatel Thanks. Honestly, the upcoming issue #2 is going to be much better...
@talflorentinux,
Love it! This is such a creative way to teach and learn UX. I think that it takes online learning to a whole new level of creativity.
It's not only E-Books anymore, it's a new category of E-Comics-Books. Amazing to see how you took your passion for comics and
drawing and passion for UX and created this cool thing. Kudos!
@illaigescheit Thanks so much for this kind feedback. This is exactly what we have on our mind.
This looks really awesome! Such a creative way to share the beauty of the design process.
Alert alert. Seriously awesome work from @talflorentinux and the team! Super-creative and enjoyable. Congratulations to you all. I'm sure you'll have some UX Hero t-shirts to follow! Just a thought... have you considered some 'product placement' within the comic strip itself, a bit like in the movies? I've got no idea if this is a good thing to do, but it just came to mind!
@prattarazzi Eddie, thanks a lot! T-shirts, posters, hats... I wish we'll get there...
@prattarazzi Regarding the product product placement idea, I don't want UX Hero to become a "Truman Show"-like promotional thing. We do intend to show UX tools in practice for educational purposes, but we are trying to give them new names.
What's more fun than making comics?
Well... Making comics about User Experience...
Get our first issue for Free here: http://www.uxherocomics.com
It all started after I published my book - the first and only book written in Hebrew about UX Design. My readers wanted to see my book translated to English and join the other leading books on the UX shelf.
As I stated the translation process, I decided that there's no point. Who am I to stand next to Donald Norman, Steve Krug and Jesse James Garrett?
I was looking for a different way to deliver the story of UX design. A different way to stand out.
This is where comics got into the story. We started making a Japanese Manga comics, but it didn't work out. So I decided to get back to my childhood and make it a classic American-style comics. UX Hero was born.
If you follow the adventures of UX Hero, you'll get the chance to meet Jonathan Sketch. He isn't different than any of us. He has no super-human skills. He's a standard designer. But interesting things start to happen and he finds chances to help businesses and make products better - the MacGyver version of a designer.
The story is aimed to deliver the main ideas of UX design. The plan is to embed real case studies from my professional life and host some leading professionals to tell their stories.
We'll try to give you some food for though, some inspiration and another tool to explain things about UX design to your colleagues.
This is all so new for all of us, I'm more than happy to hear your thoughts. Thanks!
Tal
@talflorentinux very cool. it takes a lot more talent than UX to create story/illustrate/pubish. congrats!
@talflorentinux The first issue doesn't really teach anything. Will future issues focus on delivering short stories like the first one or teach UX?
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