Theresa Neil

User Experience Consultant

Areas of Expertise:

  • Rich Internet Application design
  • Enterprise Software
  • Mobile Interface Design
  • consulting
  • training
Theresa Neil has been designing user interfaces since 2001 when she coded her first seat map for an airline kiosk. She loved the direct interaction of tapping a seat to change rows, and updating the colors to show the seat was assigned. She wanted to make more products like this, intuitive, direct, and interactive. In the past 9 years, she has led the design for close to 100 web, desktop, and mobile applications, working first as the Usability Lead at Sabre Airlines Solutions, then on her own as a User Experience consultant. Recent clients include a diverse mix of Fortune 500 companies, non-profit organizations, and local Austin start-ups. Her experiences as a UX designer are chronicled at theresaneil.wordpress.com and her work can be seen at www.theresaneil.com.

Mobile Design Pattern Gallery Mobile Design Pattern Gallery
by Theresa Neil
February 2012 (est.)
Print: $29.99

Designing Web Interfaces Designing Web Interfaces
by Bill Scott , Theresa Neil
January 2009
Print: $49.99
Ebook: $39.99

Scott & Neil's Designing Web Interfaces Master Class Scott & Neil's Designing Web Interfaces Master Class
by Theresa Neil , Bill Scott
April 2010
Video: $79.99

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Theresa blogs at:
http://designingwebinterfaces.com/posts
http://theresaneil.wordpress.com/

Show Me, Don’t Tell Me: Pattern Galleries vs Pattern Libraries

February 06 2012

I read a post on Boxes and Arrows this week titled Are Design Patterns an Anti-Pattern? where Stephen Turbek outlines the pitfalls of pattern libraries. This got me thinking about a UIE talk a couple of months back where Stephen Anderson ‘vilified’ the set of RIA screen patterns Bill Scott… read more

Does It Have Legs- Heuristics for Information Architecture

February 06 2012

Great talk from Abby the IA. Fresh style, clearly expressed. Can’t wait for the poster she’s making. Information Architecture Heuristics View more presentations from Abby Covert document.getElementById("post-2067-blankimage").onload(); read more

Does It Have Legs- Heuristics for Information Architecture

February 06 2012

Great talk from Abby the IA. Fresh style, clearly expressed. Can’t wait for the poster she’s making. read more

jQuery Mobile Graffle Stencil

January 20 2012

Had to whip up an OmniGraffle stencil for jQuery Mobile. I submitted it to Graffletopia, but it isn’t live yet. You can download it here in the meantime. Just put in the user name > Library > Application Support > OmniGraffle > Stencils folder and unzip. Another great resource to… read more

jQuery Mobile Graffle Stencil

January 20 2012

Had to whip up an OmniGraffle stencil for jQuery Mobile. I submitted it to Graffletopia, but it isn’t live yet. You can download it here in the meantime. Just put in the user name > Library > Application Support > OmniGraffle > Stencils folder and unzip. Another great resource to… read more

UXpert Team- Cross Channel Design and Development Solutions

January 04 2012

Happy new year! I’m excited to say our group is continuing to grow, not just with more clients and projects, but in our experience as designers. In 2011 we had the good fortune to lead the design for One thing that was common across many of these projects was the… read more

Testing the iPad at the North Pole

December 21 2011

Happy holidays to all of our followers, clients and friends. Update: Apparently this is actual footage for testing at the South Pole. read more

Testing the iPad at the North Pole

December 21 2011

Happy holidays to all of our followers, clients and friends. document.getElementById("post-2058-blankimage").onload(); read more

Cloudera Manager’s “Fantastic Interface”

December 09 2011

We’re proud to have worked with Cloudera’s team and our friends at Projekt202 to design Cloudera Manager, the industry’s first end-to-end management application for Apache Hadoop. Read more on Tech Crunch. Congratulations Cloudera on the release and the great press so far. Here’s my favorite quote: “We were treated to… read more

Mobile Web Options: Backbone.js

December 02 2011

I was speaking with some of our developers last night about a mobile web options like jQTouch, jQuery Mobile, Sencha Touch. And then we started talking about Backbone.js. I first heard about Backbone last week from a prospective client who mentioned they use it with PhoneGap to create their apps.… read more

Mobile Web Option: Backbone.js

December 01 2011

I was speaking with some of our developers last night about a mobile web options like jQTouch, jQuery Mobile, Sencha Touch. And then we started talking about Backbone.js. I first heard about Backbone last week from a prospective client who mentioned they use it with PhoneGap to create their apps.… read more

New O’Reilly Book: Mobile Design Pattern Gallery

November 29 2011

We recently had a new mobile project starting and all of our experienced mobile designers were booked. This gave me less than a week to ramp up a new designer. So I made a quick tutorial with lots and lots of screenshots, illustrating good design and not so good design.… read more

New O’Reilly Book: Mobile Design Pattern Gallery

November 29 2011

We recently had a new mobile project starting and all of our experienced mobile designers were booked. This gave me less than a week to ramp up a new designer. So I made a quick tutorial with lots and lots of screenshots, illustrating good design and not so good design.… read more

Top Ajax Technologies and RIA Frameworks

January 17 2011

The Gartner RIA Report in 2010 rated 22 Ajax technologies and RIA Frameworks. They define the Ajax/RIA market as "a set of technology offerings oriented to meeting the needs of application development teams to build systems that deliver a rich... read more

28 Rich Data Visualization Tools

December 10 2009

All of our clients have data rich applications and need equally rich data visualizations to help their end customers analyze data quickly and effectively. What makes my job really interesting is that these clients are in different industries and are using different technologies. So we have pulled together a set… read more

50 Most Usable RIAs

September 02 2009

We applied two simple criteria to identify the 50 most usable RIAs: Number 1: Does it adhere to the 10 basic usability principles? Number 2: Is it really rich? Developing a product with Ajax, Flex, or Silverlight doesn't inherently make it rich. A usable RIA will embody these six principles: Make… read more

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