uxurls.com - the user experience aggregator

90 Percent of Everything

  • David Ogilvy: “We Sell or Else”
  • How to get the results you want in surveys & polls (funny)
  • Darkpatterns.org: naming and shaming sites that use black hat, anti-usability design patterns.
  • Madgex is hiring a Creative Director. Come work with me!
  • Reviewing WhatUsersDo.com: a UK-based remote unmoderated qualitative usability testing platform

Cone Trees

  • The official definition(s) of Usability
  • Cognitive Walkthrough
  • Augmented Reality
  • Sheena Iyegnar on the Art of Choosing
  • John Underkoffler talks about and demos his spatial UI

Good Experience Design

  • Quince Pro is for Real
  • New Design Jobs at Infragistics
  • Thoughts on Thoughts on Interaction Design
  • Process is Pedagogy
  • UCD vs. Design Again?

Surf Mind Musings

  • Tabs haven’t killed the back button in browser behavior
  • Tabbed Browsing and Search Behavior
  • JetPack for Learning at SXSW
  • Faceted Browsing at Scale
  • Encouraging Paper Prototyping in the Jetpack Learning Challenge

Little Springs Design

  • Trying to solve the wrong problem
  • Carnival #237
  • Carnival #236
  • Influencing the Requirements Process - Designing Documentation, Part 2
  • Designing Requirements Documentation

1934cc

  • Two-dollar discount.
  • How bad design turned my plane around.
  • NPR's The Picture Show.
  • On inspiring and inspiration.
  • Cities, urban interfaces, and consequential strangers.

Design With Intent

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  • Design with Intent toolkit 1.0 now online
  • Learning from game design: 11 gambits for influencing user behaviour
  • Why it’s been quiet here
  • What I didn’t get round to writing about in 2009

New Media Bazaar

  • Internal | External 2010
  • 2010 and back to work
  • Where I am right now
  • Update on progress
  • A quick acknowledgement of thanks…

Elisabeth Hubert

  • WIT Post – Seeing IT Through a Different Lens: User Experience
  • Experiencing NYC by boat!
  • I’m writing for Women in Technology!
  • Taking it easy
  • Reason #3 Why UX Designers are like Therapists

method sans madness

  • From Sketch to Code
  • Only You Care How It’s Built
  • Going Back to the Source: The Agile Manifesto
  • Do Disruptive Startups Need UX?
  • When Adding Waste isn’t Waste

Joe Parry

  • Social Network Analysis
  • Visual Analytics for Security
  • Visualization Intern Time Again
  • Visual Timelines and Narrative
  • Visual Analytics Panel 2009

Usability Gal

  • What’s on your ux bookshelf?
  • Chicken and Egg by Kai Brunner
  • Influence through storytelling
  • 10 Handy hints to check a ux agency or freelancer is genuine
  • The first usability book I ever bought

graphpaper.com

  • The Un-Remote
  • A Book on a Hook
  • My New Bike
  • Reading Lolita On Paper
  • For Sale: Fitbit. Like New.

Genstart

  • Finding out which things to throw out
  • The world’s first clock radio
  • Introducing Donefeed, a master reading list
  • Imagine you were an astronaut, just having found out that you have to manage your space station budget
  • How we built a take-away menu image search engine in just 50 lines of code

Usability Counts

  • I’m Telling You, Apple (And Ping) Just Killed MySpace Or Why Ping Is the Future of Social Commerce
  • TechDirt: How Microsoft (And Yahoo) Missed The Disruptive Innovation In Paid Search
  • Did Apple Just Kill MySpace?
  • The Oatmeal: Working At Home
  • Unpluggd: Everything Ages Fast

Short Bored Surfer

  • UX books for beginners on UXBooth
  • 11 Principles of Interaction Design explained
  • 11 Principles of Interaction Design
  • Simplifying voter registration: my small part in the general election
  • Dorset’s digital landscaping

Pietro Desiato

  • iPad Prototyping with Fireworks and JQuery
  • The Context of iPad
  • Aperitivo brings the Italian happy hour on iPhone
  • Fake calls on the iPhone
  • Exposé for iPhone

Designing for Humans

  • Integrating User Interface & Industrial Design
  • Ergonomic Analysis for Tool Redesign
  • Video - Documenting Physical Behavior
  • Creating Effective User Interface and Industrial Design Teams
  • Physical Gestures to Document Design Research

Robert Hoekman, Jr.

  • Contractor needed to help with Designing the Obvious, 2nd Edition
  • A response to "The Web Is Dead," and its naysayers
  • Collapse vs. evolution: Your brain on technology
  • Precision matters
  • Content and design, sitting in a tree

Dexo Design

  • Interviewed by Denise Dubie
  • Smart dust aims to monitor everything
  • Are user interface standards any good?
  • How much information is too much?
  • Intuitive vs. Conventional

Perfect Tuna

  • Trust the Experts: A Lesson on Living in Design Hell
  • Jealousy, Haters, and Success: Lessons to Live By
  • Dear Fairview...
  • Fairview Update
  • August Reading List

Man, Woman and Child

  • Timelapse dusk
  • Conversation with Daniel Szuc & Jo Wong of Apogee Hong Kong
  • Japanese text entry
  • Wired magazine confusion
  • Tube map

Syntagm

  • September News
  • July 2010 News – Additional course dates, venues and free reports
  • Are your abstractions too abstract?
  • UCD/UX/Usability Course Series – Card Sorting First Up
  • Welcome to Exchange Management Hell

Usability Testing How-to

  • Researcher as director: scripts and stage direction
  • Voting: The 233-year-old design problem
  • Is your team stuck in a bubble?
  • Usability isn't just about eliminating frustration anymore
  • Overcoming fear of moderating UX research sessions

Wish Eye

  • Facebook – my comments
  • TweetDeck – multiple accounts
  • YouTube – resume playback
  • Gmail – multiple inboxes not multiple messages
  • iPhone 3G – Predictive text (suggestive rather than assumptive)

Freser Hamilton

  • Expert evaluations - the discovery phase (Step 3)
  • Expert evaluations - the discovery phase (Step 2)
  • Expert evaluations - the discovery phase (Step 1)
  • Give project teams time to reflect on your findings
  • Task times - how to calculate the average

Kim Hiltz

  • The roles of conceptual device models and user goals in avoiding device initialization errors
  • Oops, I did it again!
  • More fun with messages: Here be dragons!
  • Sebastian Deterding on Persuasive Web Design
  • Usability job titles: What is it you do again?

User Effect

  • 10,000 Tweets for Human Rights
  • Users Don't Read - The Ride
  • How to Solve Any Problem
  • Guest Post on UXBooth
  • Guide to Low-cost Usability Tools

User Kind

  • Gmail adds more logic to improve UX
  • Using The Paradox of Choice to Improve UX
  • CSS resets
  • 25 UX Videos Worth Watching
  • Welcome to the new User Kind

Userhappiness

  • Carmony swaps Swiss Toni for sliders
  • Guess the Playmobil product icon
  • Neuroeconomics: finding the brain’s buy button?
  • Queen visits Google
  • Userhappiness investment tip: make it manuka

Webcredible

  • Personas - the definitive guide
  • 10 unexpected online user behaviours to look out for
  • Six mistakes to avoid in mobile usability
  • 6-step process for planning a user test
  • Focus groups vs. usability testing - what, when and why?

WebWord

  • Listen to Selling Usability (Chapters 11 through 15)
  • Better Search Engine (Chapter 1)
  • Listen to Selling Usability (Chapter 10)
  • Listen to Selling Usability (Chapter 9)
  • Listen to Selling Usability (Chapter 8)

World of Usability

  • How a Web Glitch Screwed up Summer
  • Can usability pay off your mortgage, part 3
  • Measuring Readability of your Copy
  • Can Usability Pay off your Mortgage, part 2
  • Can usability help pay off your mortgage?

Yu Blog

  • 4th Nokia Ubimedia MindTrek Awards Competition
  • Only 2 days left to grab early bird prices for www.uxmasterclass.com
  • 6 Rules to Balance Science and Art in UX Design
  • EuroITV 2010 Conference - End
  • User Experience Masterclass, Sept. 20 / Montreal, Qc. Canada

mobiface

  • Address book
  • Blinking Light Saga
  • Phone Personification
  • No interface
  • iPhone Spotlight evolution

_futurism

  • Something worth talking about
  • In loving memory of multiple Dave Szulborski's
  • Creative Catapult
  • Getting a great creative job
  • Creative Direction & Leadership

A Social Life

  • Surviving Aggregation Overload
  • Tagging vs. Searching
  • Our experience with enterprise tagging terminology
  • Cleaning up the tag soup
  • What are the personal benefits of tagging? (Part 2)

Aplo

  • empathy as key to successful integrative thinking
  • online shopping and the problem with.... research
  • opt in, not out
  • meet customer needs to get ahead of the pack
  • pop up garden

Another Useful Blog

  • What You Always Wanted to Know About Eye Tracking - Part 2: Data Accuracy
  • User Interfaces and Self-Esteem
  • Macroblogging, Microblogging and Mesoblogging
  • What You Always Wanted to Know About Eye Tracking - Part 1: Fixation Detection
  • Instant Usability: Microwave Controls

Think Outside In

  • The data behind The Real Life Social Network
  • Talk outline: VTM web design conference next week
  • Hey Nike, get your crap out of my newsfeed
  • Book update: cover and interior design
  • The fans + followers arms race

Artefact

  • The 10 square feet factory.
  • Artefact Establishes its Industrial Design Team with Three Strategic Hires
  • Hierarchy, Communication and Success.
  • SIGGRAPH 2010
  • Adjusting your belief system

Aza's Thoughts

  • Firefox Panorama: Tab Candy Evolved
  • Does Google Censor Tiananmen Square? How To Create an Internet Hoax
  • Tab Candy: Making Firefox Tabs Sweet
  • How To Phish, Protect Your Email, and Defeat Copy-And-Paste with CSS
  • Animation with CSS Transitions Made Easy

Brand New

  • Post digital briefs and stuff
  • Visions of the Gamepocalypse
  • Take me to the bridge
  • An awesome day
  • Want to work at GS&P?

Chris Baum

  • All Hail the Enchantress of Numbers
  • Down On The Farm
  • Possible, But Terrifying
  • I Think, Therefore What?
  • Not Getting Ahead Of Ourselves

Cennydd Bowles

  • Free editing help
  • The making of Undercover UX Design
  • UX Fundamentals workshop
  • SXSW 2011 proposal
  • On writing

Cognitive Friction

  • Hey, UCD! Check your spelling
  • XSort now available for free download
  • Design Thinking for Innovation lecture
  • The iPhone 3G in use
  • Report of the death of print wildly exaggerated

Confusability

  • How Amazon lost a customer of 11 years
  • Banksy in Bristol on Google Street View
  • Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
  • Merry Christmas
  • Clodagh McEvoy

Contrast

  • Long live real business
  • Wipe the slate clean
  • Three to tango
  • Your app has launched, now what?
  • The Need for Speed

Cre8pc

  • Eat, Play, Love More
  • Do You Know The Way to Good IA
  • The You-Don’t-Matter Website (A Look At Ego/Vanity Sites)
  • Re-Lit and All Fired Up
  • Facebook Sending Photos of You for Criminal Investigation

Croc o' Lyle

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  • Untitled
  • Balsamiq Mockups Home | Balsamiq
  • Presentation Zen: When bar charts go bad
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Customer Experience Matters

  • Google Lessons On Marketing, Not Rapping
  • The Design Of Little Things
  • Lessons Learned From Branch Rickey
  • The Voice Of The Customer Is Powerful
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greenonions.com

  • Life without Cable
  • Eight Principles of IA: Redux
  • Cognitive Linguistics and Content Management
  • Requests
  • The Design of Content: Prioritization

Demand Satisfaction!

  • Video: Getting Started with Get Satisfaction
  • Gearing up for the Gov 2.0 Summit
  • Community Managers: Export by date
  • And the first prize goes to…
  • Our favorite business blogs

Demystifying Usability

  • Do top and bottom Web page toolbars add Clutter?
  • New Study- Gender differences in Web Usability
  • 5 Task-Centered Design Patterns Competitors are Employing to Out-gun Your Design
  • Facebook's Privacy FAIL: Lessons for Designing Privacy in Social Networks
  • 5 Problems with Borrowing Design Ideas from Apple (and others)

Design Critique

  • DC72 Interview: TechSmith on Designing Snagit for Macintosh
  • DC71 Five Year Anniversary Episode with Jared Spool of UIE
  • Promo for Internet User Experience 2010
  • DC70b Interview: Pt 2 of Jeff Smith on Gathering User Feedback from Internal Sources to Supplement Formal Usability Studies
  • DC70a Interview: Pt 1 of Jeff Smith on Gathering User Feedback from Internal Sources to Supplement Formal Usability Studies

Design Generalist

  • information is beautiful
  • favourite visual research techniques
  • The service design of proposing a marriage
  • Designing a better world at Northumbria
  • Hello again

Design MBA Blog

  • The DMBA program adds two Associate Chairs
  • Recent Board and Director Accomplishments
  • New book by DMBA faculty
  • What is Marketing?
  • What IS Design Thinking?

Designing For Influence

  • Using Social Proof to drive donations on PBS
  • Friending Brands for Deals & Offers
  • Walgreens wants to be your Facebook friend
  • Wikipedia’s Donation Model
  • Foamee & Reciprocity

Donna M's Maadmob

  • A practical guide to IA (my new book)
  • Stories and examples for my IA book
  • I’m writing an IA book!
  • How I draft an IA
  • Dear retailers…

EightShapes Unify

  • Annotating Document Change
  • Simple Sketchy Wireframes in Adobe Illustrator
  • Want to Produce Sexy Design? Visualize a Project Plan
  • Musings on Customization, Team Reactions, and More
  • Swimlanes: An Interview with Yvonne Shek

Elegant Hack

  • I like you more than I like food
  • The Shuffle is a Robot
  • The Unbearable Lightness of Travel
  • What’s Wrong with Wireframes?
  • How to Hire a Designer

Enable Usability

  • Research Shows Oklahomans Are Top Texters
  • Heathrow Slams "Misleading" Research Results
  • Usability Feature: Researching Price - SPSS
  • Usability Feature: Office 2008 for Mac - Help
  • Volkswagen - Research "Not Up To Scratch"

EverydayUX

  • PlayStation Controller Button Labels Demystified
  • Flipboard captures something we lost along the way
  • EverydayUX morsels (August 15th – August 30th)
  • EverydayUX morsels (July 30th – August 1st)
  • Inception Visualized = drool-worthy

Bloug

  • Globalizing a small publishing house's site
  • Go work for PayPal
  • Site Search Analytics virtual seminar (June 23)
  • What would you like me to teach?
  • Globalizing an IA

Fera Labs

  • Looking for a junior remote usability analyst
  • One day workshop at the UX Lisbon conference 12th to the 13th of May
  • Design without personas
  • A designer’s perspective on a Groovy and Grails meetup
  • Where the world’s first transatlantic email was sent from

findability.org

  • Endeca's Pattern Library
  • User Experience People
  • 5 Minute Madness
  • Search Patterns T-Shirt
  • iPad First Impressions

Forum One

  • What's Your Story? User Stories Instead of Technical Documentation
  • Introduction to Card Sorting: A Technique for Organizing and Categorizing Items
  • How to Foster Cross-Functional Collaboration on Wireframes
  • Your Web Site Needs a Chiropractor: Alignment in Web Design
  • Design Principles: Proximity

Friday Forward

  • Diabetes Diary v1.6.2
  • Diabetes Diary v1.6
  • Squared v1.1 now available
  • Diabetes Diary v1.5.1
  • Diabetes Diary v1.5

Funky Karaoke

  • Icebergs
  • New era of Mobile?
  • A Few Thoughts on App Challenges
  • Hello Mobile!
  • No Flashy AR on your mobile

GrokDotCom

  • Your New BFF: Weighted Sort in Google Analytics
  • The Art & Science of CRO
  • Top 10 Things To Do When Waiting for GWO Results
  • Analytics How-To: Segment for Sticky Content
  • 3 1/2 Reasons Why Online Marketers Should Attend Tradeshows

Get Elastic Ecommerce Blog

  • Oh Deer: 3 Reasons To Pull in the Reins on Holiday Email Frequency
  • 5 Marketing Checklists: Bloggers Digest August 2010
  • Applying Consumer Research to Persuasion: An Example from the Software Industry
  • Does Your Log In Make Them Drop Off?
  • Search Illustrated: 22 Features for Site Search Nirvana

Ghost in the Pixel

  • Critical facets of a design
  • Design needs a (project) runway
  • “Tomorrow” is not a schedule
  • Designers as triathletes?
  • 3 things your customer should say

Good Usability

  • The complications of watches and language
  • Usability testing and sticky spoons
  • Preventing issues on web forms
  • How does your web form flow?
  • How did you hear about us?

You The User

  • Educated in a Portakabin
  • Proactive listening
  • Taking a break from The Internets, and waiting
  • London IA Upgrade
  • Conversations over Coffee: Nic Price

Push Click Touch

  • Interaction10: Coming Up for Air
  • Doing a Virtual Seminar for UIE
  • Check Ticket Data
  • From Business to Buttons
  • Why I’m Attending Interaction 09, and You Should Too!

I think therefore IA

  • Quantitative and qualitative data and UX design
  • Concrete Blonde
  • Hollaback!
  • The 22 Minute Meeting
  • Video and Slides from Interaction 10′s KPI talk

ia play

  • avoiding user testing too late, some challenges
  • working with people who demean their colleagues
  • the trouble with careers advice
  • what Haringey thinks is my local area
  • for newspapers, content is (still) the problem

IA TV

  • Charles Leadbeater: The rise of the amateur professional
  • RSA Animate - Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us
  • Lessons Learned from the Browser Wars
  • Jeff Bezos: After the gold rush, there's innovation ahead
  • Learn About HTML5 and IE9 from Giorgio Sardo from Microsoft

Idle Mode

  • FasTrak: Your Car on the Internet of Things
  • We’ve moved to a new RSS and a new domain
  • Ubicomp Moving Toward Mainstream
  • Brands in the Mobile Space: Your Business Requirements Are Showing
  • Why iPad?

InfoDesign

  • ACM Hypertext 2010: As we may have thought, and may (still) think
  • Future os Screens: Experience video
  • Designing Behavior in Interaction: Using Aesthetic Experience as a Mechanism for Design
  • 5 negative perceptions about IAs and how to defeat them
  • Don't Become A Digital Dinosaur: Design For The Space Between

Information Architects Japan

  • WIRED on iPad: Just like a Paper Tiger…
  • Cosmic 140—Art for Geeks
  • Designing for iPad: Reality Check
  • iA’s 2006 Facebook Designs, Redesigned
  • Meet C140, Our Next Trend Map

Inspire UX

  • Start designing for the possibilities of human connection
  • Design is underpinned by the designer’s ability to not only look, but also to see
  • Design can be visionary by presenting solutions to problems yet undefined
  • If you want your product to sell, focus on memorable experiences
  • Using Multiple Data Sources and Insights to Aid Design

ACM Interactions Magazine

  • Gestural Interfaces: A Step Backwards in Usability
  • interactions: authenticity, complexity, and design
  • On academic knowledge production
  • The (Anti)Social Net
  • The design of serendipity is not by chance

Dexo design

  • Interviewed by Denise Dubie
  • Smart dust aims to monitor everything
  • Are UI standards any good?
  • How much information is too much?
  • Intuitive vs. Conventional

iQ Blog

  • We’re hiring! Content and analytics practice leads
  • dotconf
  • UX Design for Kids, part 2: Design age appropriately
  • Beer and learning this week at iQ
  • UX Design For Kids, part 1: User testing

Janko at Warp Speed

  • Empathy and web design
  • Rethinking form validation
  • Issues with modal overlays on the web
  • Autosave my work, please
  • Why and how to create Microsoft Office Minibar with jQuery and CSS3

Kim Hiltz

UK Jobs

  • UX/Interface Designer - Just London Jobs - London
  • UX/Interface Designer - Trent Pearce - London
  • UX/Interface Designer - Alpha Financial - JobG8 - Greater London
  • Graduate/Junior UX Designer - London
  • Desktop SW UX Architect - London

USA Jobs

  • UX Artist/Designer - Kabam - San Francisco, CA
  • UX Designer, Contractor - K12 - Herndon, VA
  • UX & Design - Various Opportunities - Research In Motion - Redwood City, CA
  • UX (UX) Lead - Belkin - Los Angeles, CA
  • UX Design Eng - 584438 - Intel - Hillsboro, OR

Australia Jobs

  • UX Specialist - Sydney or Melebourne at Telstra (New South Wales)
  • Sr UX Specialist - Sydney or Melbourne at Telstra (Victoria)
  • UX Architect (Web / Mobile) x 2 (Sydney, NSW)
  • UX Architect/Designer (Sydney, NSW)
  • UX Architect/Designer at Greythorn (Sydney, NSW)

Lies, Damn Lies

  • Online Advertising Business 101, Part VII: Demand-side Platforms (DSPs)
  • Wanna work for me?
  • What’s another word for “Web Analytics”?
  • I love it when a mail-merge comes together…
  • Data is (are?) Beautiful

Konigi

  • Interactive Sketching Notation
  • UI Stack Exchange
  • Omnigraffle Sitemap Generator from Sitemap XML
  • Charlie Rose interview with Jeff Bezos
  • Draftboard: Design Review Tool

Little Springs

  • Trying to solve the wrong problem
  • Carnival #237
  • Carnival #236
  • Influencing the Requirements Process - Designing Documentation, Part 2
  • Designing Requirements Documentation

Looks Good Works Well

  • Togetherville Hiring Interaction Designer
  • Zurb's 110 Interesting Moments for BounceApp.com
  • Workshop in HD Video: Designing Web Interfaces
  • Inline Form Validation
  • Designing with Lenses - Slides - CHIFOO 4/7/2010

Losing Context

  • Information is a Material (dorkbot talk transcript)
  • Peak MHz
  • "Information is a Material": July 7 dorkbot SF Talk abstract
  • Smart Things: Chapter 6, Information Shadows, Part 6: WineM, an example
  • Smart Things: Chapter 6, Information Shadows, Part 5: Design with Information Shadows

Mike Laurie

  • Clay Shirky: Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable
  • Incredible Gran Turismo 5 footage
  • St. Vincent On World Cafe : NPR
  • Lovely product demo
  • What I Like About You on Vimeo

Mike Darga's Game Design

  • Prisoner's Dilemma, The Striatum, And The Dragonmaw Shinbones
  • 8 Posts You've Probably Never Seen
  • How Valve Is Designing Their Community's Behavior
  • How Could I Resist A Data Post?
  • One Year And Thank You

Mike Kuniavsky's notebook

  • Information is a Material (dorkbot talk transcript)
  • Peak MHz
  • "Information is a Material": July 7 dorkbot SF Talk abstract
  • Smart Things: Chapter 6, Information Shadows, Part 6: WineM, an example
  • Smart Things: Chapter 6, Information Shadows, Part 5: Design with Information Shadows

Nerdburn

  • 6 Things Freelance Designers Should Check out Today
  • Complete List of Tax Increases in BC with HST
  • How to Select All New Entries From Today with MySQL
  • QuoteRobot Lives! Try it Free for 30 Days
  • Buy & Sell Used Clothing & Accessories on Exching

New Media Bazaar

  • Internal | External 2010
  • 2010 and back to work
  • Where I am right now
  • Update on progress
  • A quick acknowledgement of thanks…

Noise Between Stations

  • UX Areas Explained
  • I.B.M.’s Watson, Like a Good Designer, Thinks in Possibilities
  • Why I Think Posture Makes the iPad Different
  • Support for Innovation is Not the Same as Support for R&D
  • Immelt Calls Out Mgrs for ‘Meanness and Greed’

Northtemple

  • I have long wondered why those ...
  • I would like to comment on Deat...
  • Death to comments!
  • Some cool insight from Campaign...
  • Here's another teaser of some o...

O Danny Boy

  • Designing Devices
  • Designing for Interaction 2
  • One Two Punch from Kicker
  • A Fool and a Liar
  • Speaking of (and in) 2009

Pat's Point of View

  • User Experience Areas Explained
  • I.B.M.’s Watson, Like a Good Designer, Thinks in Possibilities
  • Why I Think Posture Makes the iPad Different
  • Support for Innovation is Not the Same as Support for R&D
  • Immelt Calls Out Managers for ‘Meanness and Greed’

Peter Van Dijck’s Guide

  • “Yes, there’s a free version”
  • iPad UI observations for babies and toddlers
  • Google Chrome warns me that Google.com is unsafe?
  • 1 2 3–the “Show all” pattern
  • Kindle software - are you kidding?

peterme.com

  • Roger Ebert: The Essential Man
  • Bing Maps Explore is pretty sweet
  • David Byrne at TED – The venue determines the music
  • Ravens Coach Brian Billick Tackles Super Bowl XLIV : NPR
  • Henrietta Lacks: A Donor’s Immortal Legacy

physical interface

  • That design is money!
  • Watershed Protection as Functional Art
  • Modular kit housing
  • Living large with warning signs
  • Supporting multiple transportation modes

Pixelsumo

  • Fine Collection of Curious Sound Objects
  • Privates
  • Inspired by Hand from Above?
  • The Fast Lane
  • Analogue Tape Glove

Planet Mat

  • HOPE Tanning Lotion
  • Tablets, Magazines and their GUIs
  • Do Us A Flavour!
  • The now even newer iPhone ELITE!
  • Team Fortress 2: The Mat.B Update

Polaine

  • Crowd-sourced insights into the Victorian workhouse
  • You Don’t Know Jack lives again
  • Core77 Columnista
  • Mentoring Creative Minds
  • Interdisciplinarity vs Cross-Disciplinarity

Pleasure and Pain

  • My Rejected Submission to Interaction11: What Lessons Can We Learn From Soap Operas For Designing Experiences
  • Whit Hour – Week 15
  • Recent Reads – 8/31/2010
  • Recent Reads – 8/24/2010
  • Whit Hour – Week 14

Poet Painter

  • Radio Silence No More? [2]
  • My Thoughts on the New Whitehouse.gov Site [3]
  • Advice to A New Mgr [5]
  • The Art and Science of Seductive Interactions [5]
  • The Fundamentals of Experience Design [3]

Scott Berkun (HBR)

  • The Greatest Product Demo Ever and What to Learn From It
  • Should Obama Create a Department of Innovation?
  • An interview with John Seely Brown
  • A Revolution for Students: The Startup Story of Unigo.com
  • How Recessions Drive New Ideas

Stop Design

  • Avoiding the Uncanny Valley of Interface Design
  • The Future of Self-service Banking
  • My Measures & Dimensions
  • Hovers (and power users) still have a healthy future
  • Better Screen, Same Typography

Johnny Holland

  • The Like as interest and social gesture
  • Radio Johnny: ClickTale’s Shmuli Goldberg on In Page Analytics
  • UX Australia ‘10 Report: Day Two
  • UX Australia ‘10 Report: Day One
  • How to Shop for Unmoderated Usability Testing Tools

Customer Experience Labs

  • Why Nokia does not need a "Finnish Steve Jobs" to lead the turnaround
  • Idea, Timing & Execution: Lessons Learned from Successfully Launching a Groupon Clone in Switzerland
  • Windows 8 plans leaked and why it doesn’t really matter for Microsoft
  • Facebook Zero: a business model revolution that could dramatically change the mobile industry
  • Invitation to participate in the CX Forum in Bern, Switzerland

Human Factors Blog

  • 11 feet 8 inches
  • “Clomiphene” vs. “Clomipramine”
  • Blogging APA Division 21: The Cost of Automation Failure
  • Too standardized? – The problem of tube identification in hospitals
  • Blogging APA Division 21: You’re Looking Harmless Today

Theresa Neil

  • Designing Rich Applications Talk
  • Mobile Chart Options
  • Ultimate guide to table UI patterns
  • RIA Screen Layouts
  • Great Experiences with Flex

zakiwarfel.com

  • Sketchboard Templates
  • A Rebuttal to Technology First Needs Last
  • Prototyping: a practitioner's guide launches
  • Negotiations
  • Redesigning the Conference Badge

Touch Usability

  • NYT on "smart" touch keyboards
  • And designing for young people
  • Designing displays for older adults (book)
  • Synaptics is hiring a usability engineer
  • Touchfrastructure

UI and us

  • PlayStation Move demo
  • Minority Report Coming Soon
  • Jigsaw Junior — an iPad App for Kids
  • Unlike a Rolling Stone
  • Colour Me Subtle

UI patterns

  • Examining reward structures
  • Keep users in the flow by prompting for continuation
  • 63 great uses of icons in web design
  • 57 video and audio player designs
  • 51 good frontpage carousel design examples

Usability Post

  • The Elusive Footer
  • Font Smoothing
  • A Mild Case Of Borderitis
  • Guilty
  • Pull Down to Refresh

Usable Markets

  • What can be _____ will be ______
  • More recession predicting
  • Animated Yield Curve
  • Cost per base pair
  • Google struggles

User Pathways

  • UX LX 2010 – 3 days in Lisbon
  • UX design framework – Interaction
  • Getting UX Integrated
  • UX-LX Lisbon, Portugal
  • UXBASIS goes mobile

Nick Bowmast's UXNZ

  • UX research. Making every minute count
  • Tune in to customer behaviour, or you’re buggered
  • Apology, or invitation. What’s your message?
  • Skype takes the hassle out of remote usability
  • Keeping it ‘old school’ with Diary Studies

UI Trends

  • Interaction10 – Paola Antonelli – Talk to Me
  • Interaction10 – Timo Arnall – Designing for the Web in the World
  • Interaction10 – Rob Nero – TRKBRD: From Idea to Conception with Physical Prototype
  • Interaction10 – Kevin Cheng – Augmented Reality: Is it Real? Should We Care?
  • Interaction10 – Jon Kolko – My Heart is in the Design

UserGlue

  • Interaction10 – Paola Antonelli – Talk to Me
  • Interaction10 – Timo Arnall – Designing for the Web in the World
  • Interaction10 – Rob Nero – TRKBRD: From Idea to Conception with Physical Prototype
  • Interaction10 – Kevin Cheng – Augmented Reality: Is it Real? Should We Care?
  • Interaction10 – Jon Kolko – My Heart is in the Design

UX By Design

  • Palm Pre Video Capture Test
  • The Reservoir of Patience
  • Announcing the birth of our baby girl
  • Best of the Web Weekly Roundup: September 5–11
  • AZCardinals.com Revamped for 2009 NFL Season Kickoff

UX Matters

  • Personas: Explorations in Developing a Deep and Dimensioned Character
  • On Freelance Hiring
  • Making the Deal: Supporting Product Demos with User Assistance
  • Using Visuals in Presentations for a Technical Audience
  • Creative Ways to Use Unmoderated User Research

UX Booth

  • Ocado: Delivering on UX
  • Getting to Grips with Content
  • How Choice Impairs Your Visitors
  • UX Books for Beginners
  • UX and the Platform War

UX Mag

  • Five UX Research Pitfalls
  • Informing Smartphone App Design
  • Unusual Settings
  • Don’t become a Digital Dinosaur
  • Doing More with Remote Research

UIE Brainsparks

  • The UI15 Lineup – Gettin’ Better Every Year
  • UIEtips: Components Versus Patterns
  • UIEtips: Google, UX, & Thinking Beyond Conversion
  • Help Me Solve A Mystery
  • UIEtips: 3 Questions You Shouldn’t Ask During User Research

Affective Design

  • “Emotional Design with A.C.T. – Pt. 1″ on Boxes and Arrows
  • “Emotional Design with A.C.T.” at the 2010 IA Summit
  • “Design for Emotion and Flow” at the 2010 IA Summit
  • AffectiveDesign.com Launches
  • Comcast Experience Maps

What makes them click?

  • 100 Things You Should Know About People: #41 — Your Most Vivid Memories Are Wrong
  • 100 Things You Should Know About People: #40 — “You’re Easily Influenced, but I’m not”
  • Send Me To South By Southwest: Vote for my panel
  • 100 Things You Should Know About People: #39 — Your Mind Wanders 30% of the Time
  • I’m Collecting Blog Feedback — Who are you and why are you here?

User Vision

  • Newspapers in Scotland usability showdown
  • Usability Testing with Older Users
  • Usability Testing with young audiences
  • BBC iPlayer Beta v3.0 Review
  • Site Performance - House of Fraser

Boxes and Arrows

UX Array

  • What’s Next…
  • Idea Sketch Sheets

LukeW Ideation + Design

  • Apple's Music, Media, & Mobile Sales
  • Data Monday: Networked Device Growth
  • Event: An Event Apart, Washington DC
  • Data Monday: Pandora (mobile music)
  • Event: Washington DC UPA

Bokardo

  • Dunning-Kruger Effect: Something’s Wrong but You’ll Never Know What It Is Part 1
  • How (And When) to Motivate Yourself
  • A good problem to have | Mike Industries
  • Facebook Behaving Badly
  • Strong, Weak, & Temporary Ties

Nick Finck

  • Blink Interactive acquires Blue Flavor
  • Another Passion interview
  • Beyond the Web Experience
  • iStockPhoto’s new IA
  • How content strategy fits into the UX

Dave Malouf

  • UI POV: Actor or Augmentation
  • Geekend 2010 speaker list is up … Surprise! I’m Ba’ack!
  • Emotion, devotion, elation, … etc. etc.
  • Lets face it, we are visual communicators …
  • OMG! My behavior is changing, my behavior is changing

Putting People First

  • Why privacy is not dead
  • A cyber-house divided
  • Attention: This revolution will NOT be televised
  • Stowe Boyd’s thoughts on our social future
  • Basque PhD thesis on relationship of youth today with new technologies

Aza Raskin

  • Firefox Panorama: Tab Candy Evolved
  • Does Google Censor Tiananmen Square? How To Create an Internet Hoax
  • Tab Candy: Making Firefox Tabs Sweet
  • How To Phish, Protect Your Email, and Defeat Copy-And-Paste with CSS
  • Animation with CSS Transitions Made Easy

404 UXD

  • Visualizing Intonation
  • The Content Strategist as Digital Curator [1]
  • Design > Argument [1]
  • Creating Controversy for its own Sake (and How Humility is a Rare Bird Indeed These Days)
  • Facebook HQ by O + A

Change Order

  • Buying the Whole Enchilada
  • Upcoming Events: AIGA Into the Woods, InfoCamp Seattle, IxDA Touch and Beyond
  • How Sending Postcards to Strangers Made Me a Better Designer
  • Being a Responsible Consultant
  • Can You Vote for My 2011 SxSWi Panel Idea?

Tyesha Snow

  • UX Tip: Use Content Examples
  • What independent music radio station calls both NY and SEA home?
  • Web Video: What, why, how long and illustrate
  • Remember Romania
  • Center nav, pleasing colors

I ♥ wireframes

  • Free Wireframing Kits, UI Design Kits, PDFs and Resources (via...
  • Wireframes by César García
  • Create the perfect prototype (via .net magazine)Master...
  • 20 Free Web UI Element Kits and Stencils (via Speckyboy Design...
  • divDesign wireframe v2 detailed (by Nikol-Kokesova)

The Cooper Journal

  • Supporting context switching on the iPhone
  • Creating immersive experiences with diegetic interfaces
  • A social network too far
  • Diacritical character entry made simple (by stealing from the iPhone OS)
  • Design research & World Cup fever

Design for Service

  • Designing the Campus Tour
  • AIGA Panel Discussion on Service Design
  • Jodi Forlizzi on Service Design
  • Out of Print
  • The Attitude of Wisdom

DesignAday

  • Ecomagination
  • I’m a Special Character
  • Quirky
  • Tiger Swallowtail in HemlockThis shot was taken last week...
  • Grid Control

Good Experience

  • Quince Pro is for Real
  • New Design Jobs at Infragistics
  • Thoughts on Thoughts on Interaction Design
  • Process is Pedagogy
  • UCD vs. Design Again?

JND.org

  • Why Design Contests Are Bad
  • Do Industrial Designers have a future?
  • Design Thinking: A Useful Myth
  • Want Magazine Interview (with video)
  • GESTURAL INTERFACES: A STEP BACKWARDS IN USABILITY

OK/Cancel

  • Bowman vs Google? Why Data and Design Need Each Other
  • Paint By Numbers
  • Writing About Comics Instead of Drawing Comics
  • Design Advice
  • Workshops For Everyone!

Putting People First

  • Why privacy is not dead
  • A cyber-house divided
  • Attention: This revolution will NOT be televised
  • Stowe Boyd’s thoughts on our social future
  • Basque PhD thesis on relationship of youth today with new technologies

52 weeks of UX

  • Finding Your Way
  • Software that Teaches
  • Copycat Design
  • UX Won't Save You
  • Chart Junk isn't as bad as you think

Simpler is Better

  • Interview with Shane Morris, Daniel Szuc and little old me
  • Did you mean to attach a file?
  • New BBC global experience language
  • Apple bigger than Microsoft
  • Recognition for the School Website Service

The Think Blog

  • Researching online retailing behaviour
  • A reading mode for the web?
  • Confirm your typo
  • Music Recommendation and Me
  • What is an expert in UCD?

UX Digest

  • UX Digest attacked
  • Use breadcrumbs for multilevel hierarchies
  • Recommend a solution on your pricing table
  • Use relevant pagination styles
  • Optimize your pathway pages

Unpressable Buttons

  • "Dated" Wine Stopper
  • Consolidated Jacks from Apple...
  • Tivo Sliding Remote - Here comes the future...
  • Water Cooler Interface: All tech, no usability
  • Embracing Digital Design

Adaptive Path

  • Imagining the Future of the Touchscreen iPod nano
  • Examining trust as a key to great experiences
  • Why Reward Failure?
  • Mapping The Emotional Geography of Portland
  • Signposts for the Week Ending August 27, 2010

bplusd

  • Web Strategy Summit May 4-5 in Calgary
  • 80/20 Influence
  • Decisions are Fractal
  • T-Shaped Influence
  • 5 Whos - Questions for Uncovering the Influence Network
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