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Creating the Windows 8 user experience - Building Windows 8 - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

I thought it would be useful to take a step back and describe a little bit of the background of how the Windows 8 user interface was designed, and discuss some of the decisions we’ve made and the goals of this new experience in more detail. [Jensen Harris, Director of Program Management for our User Experience team, authored this post.]

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3 days ago by fjordaan

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Cheap Train Tickets for the East Coast > East Coast

I've used for years & have never "click[ed] for live travel information". Make info visible! #UX

UX from twitter
6 weeks ago by fjordaan

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fjordaan | skitch.com

I've used for years & have never "click[ed] for live travel information". Make info visible! #UX

UX from twitter
6 weeks ago by fjordaan

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What are some great examples of a "forgot password" UX pattern? - Quora

Before tackling the scenario myself, I thought I'd put the question out there. What's acceptable/common? Who's doing it well?

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Infographic: buying DVDs vs pirating them - Boing Boing

This pithy and funny chart does a superb job of explaining how the insertion of a lot of "business model" (FBI warnings, unskippable trailers, THX vanity sequences) makes buying a DVD a lot worse than pirating the same disc online.

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february 2012 by fjordaan

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Structure First. Content Always. | Mark Boulton

Let’s be really clear about this. It is unrealistic to write your content – or ask your client to write the content – before you design it. Most of the time. Content needs to be structured and structuring alters your content, designing alters content. It’s not ‘content then design’, or ‘content or design’. It’s ‘content and design’.

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february 2012 by fjordaan

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Local maxima and the perils of data-driven design

At UX Week 2010, Facebook Product Designer Adam Mosseri gave a presentation called Data Informed, Not Data Driven. It’s an excellent talk and Adam gave some really good examples demonstrating how data-driven design can take you into “local maximum”, which is essentially a design cul-de-sac caused by a blinkered over-emphasis on Analytics and MVT.

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february 2012 by fjordaan

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Android Design - Welcome

Welcome to Android Design, your place for learning how to design exceptional Android apps.

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january 2012 by fjordaan

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Google Currents - Yet another contribution to the UI-fragmentation of Android - MIN MING

Google, here is the problem: If you cannot make the UI of your apps consistent, how do you expect developers to follow your design language? Which one should they follow? You have to set the bar high. You have to show what a good app is supposed to be like.

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december 2011 by fjordaan

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Don Norman's jnd.org / Simplicity Is Highly Overrated

“Why can’t products be simpler?” cries the reviewer in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the local newspaper. “We want simplicity” cry the people befuddled by all the features of their latest whatever. Do they really mean it? No.

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november 2011 by fjordaan

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fjordaan | skitch.com

I like this design for an error page. Saved for future reference. #ux #lastfm

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october 2011 by fjordaan

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Introducing Overlay Scrollbars in Unity « Canonical Design

Interesting attempt to evolve scrollbars: Ubuntu's "overlay scrollbars" /via @gilgongo #ux

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may 2011 by fjordaan

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controls - Please recommend a widget to alter ratios totalling 100% - User Experience - Stack Exchange

Asked on UX.StackExchange: Please recommend a widget to alter ratios totalling 100% #ux #lazyweb

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may 2011 by fjordaan

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Toddler app user interface guidelines - Gabriel Weinberg's Blog

My son Eli has been using iPad apps since he was one and we have about 50 toddler apps. With the big caveat that this post is based off essentially a sample size of one, here are some toddler app user interface guidelines.

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april 2011 by fjordaan

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LukeW | Mobile First

More often than not, the mobile experience for a Web application or site is designed and built after the PC version is complete. Here's three reasons why Web applications should be designed for mobile first instead.

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february 2011 by fjordaan

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satine.org – The Care and Feeding of the Android GPU

Android has two major technical UX problems: animation performance and touch responsiveness.

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february 2011 by fjordaan

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Blog - Reboot.FCC.gov

FCC.gov are putting up wireframes (made w Axure, v nice) to solicit feedback on their redesign. /via @waxpancake #UX

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november 2010 by fjordaan

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Little Big Details

I appreciate what is doing. #UX

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november 2010 by fjordaan

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Don Norman's jnd.org / Why is 37signals so arrogant?

"I'm not designing for other people." I think that simple phrase speaks volumes. Thank goodness most companies recognize that this attitude is deadly.

Couldn't agree more with Don Norman. Often thought so myself. /via @leisa @lnap: Why is 37signals so arrogant?

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october 2010 by fjordaan

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Why is Twitter.com so badly designed? « Isotoma Blog

Blog post: User experience problems on @Twitter.com /cc @k @stop #ux #uxd

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september 2010 by fjordaan

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The pollution of UX : Cennydd Bowles on user experience

The UX industry is becoming polluted by dilettantism. It’s no surprise then that people are attacking the field. We can expect more of it, and there’s a real chance that the fury and division we see in the conversation surrounding Ryan’s post will soon drown out the cause we espouse—designing technology that helps people be productive, empowered, and happy.

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september 2010 by fjordaan

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Solving the real Alt-Tab problem « Isotoma Blog

Blog post: Solving the *real* Alt-Tab problem: -- my response to @azaaza's article. #ux

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may 2010 by fjordaan

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Even more Dilbert on UX…- 90 Percent of Everything
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april 2010 by fjordaan

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User Experience Freelancers - Sharing experiences & opportunities
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february 2010 by fjordaan

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iPad User Experience Guidelines | UX Magazine

Apple's Human Interface Guidelines for the iPad outline how to create user interfaces optimized for the iPad device. According to Apple, the best iPad applications: downplay application UI so that the focus is on content; present content in beautiful, often realistic ways; and take full advantage of device capabilities to enable enhanced interaction.

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february 2010 by fjordaan

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Untitled (http://forums.omnigroup.com/showthread.php?p=72174)

Anyone else use OmniGraffle for wireframing? Then consider adding your voice to this thread: /cc @omnigraffle #UX #IA

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january 2010 by fjordaan

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The cathedral plus the bazaar: Open source and Apple (design) envy | The Open Road - CNET News

Walk the halls of any open-source conference and you'll see a large percentage of attendees with ironically un-open-source Apple laptops and iPhones. I've commented on the reasons for this before, but a new thought sprung to mind while reading Matthew Thomas' excellent (and old) "Why free software usability tends to suck."

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june 2009 by fjordaan

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Aza’s Thoughts » Blog Archive » Vote! How to Detect the Social Sites Your Visitors Use

If you could detect which social bookmarking sites your reader uses, on a per-reader basis, you could display only the badges they care about. But you can’t know that because the browser secures the user’s history, right? Wrong.