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BERG is a design consultancy, working hands-on with companies to research and develop their technologies and strategy, primarily by finding opportunities in networks and physical things.

Find the right people for research. Intercept live visitors to your site, ask them questions, and call them.

Specialists in environmental graphics, brand identity, signing, wayfinding and information design. Our clients include mass transit authorities, rail, road and marine service providers, airport operators, regional governments and developers around the world.

Stories from the frontline of user experience. Hear tales of success, failure and everything in between from those who've been there, done it, and lived to tell the tale.

A place for London IAs to share their ideas, problems and solutions.

The idea for Melbourne UX Movie Night came from local members of CHISIG, IxDA and UX Book Club wanting a regular, simple (low cost, easy to run), get together where people working in and around the field of user experience in Melbourne could chat and swap notes on work, projects, life, the universe, etc…

Melbourne UX Movie Night is an attempt to make that happen.

Every month we get together for an hour or two, watch a great UX movie, share some drinks, chat and have some laughs. The movies will run for 30 to 60 minutes, and the whole evening for two to three hours.

The Usability Professionals' Association supports usability and UX specialists from all aspects of human-centred design, and the broad family of disciplines that create the user experience in promoting the design and development of usable products.

iOS UI Patterns

Web forms are often responsible for gathering critical information—email addresses for continued communications, mailing addresses for product shipments, and billing information for payment processing to name just a few. So it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that one of the most common questions I get asked about Web form design is: “How do I deal with international addresses?”

Working across multiple digital platforms, we create websites as well as applications for the iPhone, iPad and Android markets. Our capabilities span digital strategy, user experience (UX), interface design (UID) and development.

GestureWorks ships with a library of over 200 built-in gestures. This library is built upon an open source gesture framework, allowing developers to customize and extend the “gesture object” to create support for new gestures.

Diagrams are an essential tool for communicating information architecture and interaction design in Web development teams. This document discusses the considerations in development of such diagrams, outlines a basic symbology for diagramming information architecture and interaction design concepts, and provides guidelines for the use of these elements.

I’ve started a list of essays and articles that I feel are important touchstones and reference points for interaction designers. These are not books (my Top Ten Essential Interaction Design Books), book chapters, or presentations (list to come), and I’ve certainly left out some classic (and not-yet-classic) articles. The list, as the best lists often are, is idiosyncratic. But please offer your own suggestions for additions in the comments.

Different is an Experience Design firm.

We use insight into human behavior to design products and services that engage, delight & differentiate.

We know that most organisations have a desire to be customer centric, deliver customer value and increase customer satisfaction. However, those same organisations can find it hard to translate this desire into products and services that provide delightful interactions with their customers. Experience Design helps bridge the gap between good intentions and a meaningful reality.

We're the largest Experience Design firm in Australia and provide a comprehensive design offering covering three core practice areas: Experience Research; Experience Strategy & Experience Design across digital, interpersonal and physical products and services.

We offer research into your customers that leads to strategic insights for your product. Understanding behaviour enables us to change the customer experience — and that change happens through great design.

A few months ago we were tasked with a redesign of a pretty large site and we had to get a grasp on what was out there quickly. We saw they had a sitemap.xml file, and it kicked off our innate laziness: someone on the internets must have made something to suck this XML into Omnigraffle, right? In fact, several someones had wrangled with this quite a bit, but there wasn’t a nice and easy solution out there.

We find digital leaders for the leading companies in digital.
We consult and recruit across the digital spectrum with particular focus on the following areas:

- Management & Strategy
- Project & Production Management
- Usability, User Experience & Information Architecture
- Client Relationship Management & Business Development
- Internet Technology & Web Based Software Development
- Design & Creative
- Social Media

The idea for Melbourne UX Movie Night came from local members of CHISIG, IxDA and UX Book Club wanting a regular, simple (low cost, easy to run), get together where people working in and around the field of user experience in Melbourne could chat and swap notes on work, projects, life, the universe, etc…

Melbourne UX Movie Night is an attempt to make that happen.

So, what happens?

Every month we get together for an hour or two, watch a great UX movie, share some drinks, chat and have some laughs. The movies will run for 30 to 60 minutes, and the whole evening for two to three hours.

CogTool is a general purpose UI prototyping tool with a difference - it automatically evaluates your design with a predictive human performance model (a "cognitive crash dummy").

To use Cogtool today, simply create a storyboard of your design idea with sketches, images or on a canvas with CogTool's widgets, demonstrate tasks on that storyboard, then press a button to produce a valid cognitive model predicting how long it will take a skilled user to complete those tasks. CogTool can be used today to baseline your current interface, or compare competitors' interfaces, and predict how much better your new designs will be.

Five Simple Steps is a publisher of books for web professionals. We follow a simple format, one that will become familiar to our readership: our books have five sections and each section has five chapters, allowing for well structured content and eclectic topics within each book. An important part of our brand is design and style. We pride ourselves on producing beautiful books that have an informal and chatty tone of voice that makes it easy to read and a useful tool for the reader.

A free User Interface Design tool for Web Designers

WebSort enables you to conduct remote card sorting online. Create a study, send a link to participants, and analyze the results - all through a simple web-based interface.

Usagewatch was created in 2005 by Francesco Cara to track the evolution of user practices with new digital media. Stefana Broadbent has since taken it on and is transforming it into a more narrative and analytic tool.

IxEdit is a JavaScript-based interaction design tool for the web. With IxEdit, designers can practice DOM-scripting without coding to change, add, move, or transform elements dynamically on your web pages. Especially, IxEdit must be useful to try various interactions rapidly in the prototyping phase of your web application.

IDEA2009 brings together the world’s foremost thinkers and practitioners: sharing the big ideas that inspire, along with practical solutions for the ways people’s lives and systems are converging to affect society.

These days, you can’t be socially engaging without considering the experience design. IDEA2009 brings together like-minded people who want to continue the exploration of Social Experience Design.

Continuing on my series of answering common questions I have created a post list user experience publications.  This is a question that keeps coming up in discussion is about User Experience resources, specifically about publications.  So here is a list of industry publications which I read on a semi-regular basis, most of which I subscribe to their feed or email newsletter.  I am hoping you find these useful.

The list is grouped into three main sections; Industry Publications (non-corporate ezines and/or printed magazines), Team & Company Publications (multi-author and/or business focused publications), and Personal Publications (practitioners who write).  Not listed are my own company’s blog, A Blue Flavored Blog, and my own personal blog of which you are currently reading.

Community features are spreading from "Web 2.0" to "Enterprise 2.0." Research across 14 companies found that many are making productive use of social intranet features.

Interface complexity is an issue every designer wrestles with when designing a reasonably sophisticated application. A complex interface can reduce user effectiveness, increase the learning curve of the application, and cause users to feel intimidated and overwhelmed.

I’ve spent the past year redesigning a particularly complex application with my primary focus being on reducing complexity. In this article, I’ll go over some of the issues surrounding complexity and techniques that can be used to manage it.

I am an interaction and visual designer on a journey to discover how design and technology can make a positive impact on people.

This book is not directly about information architecture—although you will find information architecture principles alluded to throughout. This book is also not directly about visual design—although you will find that the backdrop of good visual design is assumed throughout. This book is about interaction design: specifically, interaction design on the Web. And even more specifically, about rich interaction design on the Web.

I want to share an additional set of principles and patterns I have been using for RIA design. While the book takes a much more consumer web site orientation, these concepts are central to enterprise application and web productivity application design and more broad than those discussed in the book.

Our design sessions frequently result in debate about which of two words is more compelling or accurate for our users, or whether a particular button is noticeable in a particular location. When we can, we test designs on real people using paper or digital prototypes, but it is impractical to test every day; sitting down with real people is not always as simple as you’d expect, what with the schedules of busy New Yorkers.

So, we set out to create our own rapid-testing usability laboratory from scratch, and last Tuesday we launched it, in rough beta form. Nicknamed Infomaki*, it’s showing a lot of potential even in its first 48 hours.

Although designing usable systems requires far more than simply applying guidelines, guidelines can still make a significant contribution to usability by promoting consistency and good practice. We use this list of guidelines in our consultancy work. For best results, remember to interpret the guideline in context — this requires a bit more thought but ensures you will get a lot more from your review.

IDEO partnered with International Development Enterprises (IDE), Heifer International, ICRW, and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to create a toolkit for applying Human-Centered Design to inspire new solutions to difficult challenges within communities of need.

Human-Centered Design is a process used for decades to create new solutions for companies and organizations. Human-Centered Design can help you enhance the lives of people. This process has been specially-adapted for organizations like yours that work with people in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Human-Centered Design (HCD) will help you hear people's needs in new ways, create innovative solutions to meet these needs, and deliver solutions with financial sustainability in mind.

One of the most common questions I get asked about Web form design is: “How do I deal with international addresses?”