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The Pummeling Pages
"They’re filled with ads and social-media sharing buttons — and more ads. And Google plus-onesies and Facebook likeys. And also more ads. Plus tweet-this-es. Plus ads. (And, under-the-hood, a whole cruise-ship-full of analytics. The page required well-more than 100 http calls.)"
reading  web  content  ux 
november 2011 by kvnglbrtsn
A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design
"I call this technology Pictures Under Glass. Pictures Under Glass sacrifice all the tactile richness of working with our hands, offering instead a hokey visual facade....Pictures Under Glass is an interaction paradigm of permanent numbness. It's a Novocaine drip to the wrist. It denies our hands what they do best. And yet, it's the star player in every Vision Of The Future."
design  future  interaction  ui  ux  body  hci 
november 2011 by kvnglbrtsn
The UX of Learning
"While roughly consistent with Bloom’s Taxonomy, her research yielded much greater insight into the sequential nature of learning and its implications on the digital environment." from A List Apart.
design  education  learning  usability  ux 
august 2011 by kvnglbrtsn
Long Live the Redesign
"The redesign disease is in full effect on the Web. It teaches us that it's quick and painless, and we can always redesign our problems away. And the cycle of meaningless design continues. It's time to stop this madness. Realign it, or refine it. Focus and attack the high priority issues that will cause little disruption and improve on the experience. Set up ways to measure and diagnose specific problems."
ux  redesign  usability 
may 2011 by kvnglbrtsn
Why We Need Storytellers at the Heart of Product Development
"The answer is simple: the process of identifying a product opportunity and value statement is not easy and the skillset required is still coming of age."
design  marketing  storytelling  ux 
april 2011 by kvnglbrtsn
Beyond the mobile web
"...think of it as an ecosystem of touchpoints, utilities, and conversations..."
mobile  content  webdevelopment  ux 
april 2011 by kvnglbrtsn
Experience Is What We Make It
"What these services do is facilitate the uniquely personal hacking, patching, and tying together of experiences that users are constructing on their own."
mobile  ux 
april 2011 by kvnglbrtsn
Testing Content
"Whether the purpose of your site is to convince people to do something, to buy something, or simply to inform, testing only whether they can find information or complete transactions is a missed opportunity: Is the content appropriate for the audience? Can they read and understand what you’ve written?" from A List Apart.
content  usability  ux  webdesign 
december 2010 by kvnglbrtsn
Strategic Content Management
"Trying to fix an organization’s content problems by installing a content management system is like trying to save a marriage by booking a holiday." from A List Apart.
cms  content  strategy  ux 
november 2010 by kvnglbrtsn
10 Usability Tips Based on Research Studies
"...research results such as eye-tracking studies, reports, analytics, and usability surveys..."
ux  ui  usability  design  redesign  research 
september 2010 by kvnglbrtsn
Next-generation UX
"Remember, multi-touch interfaces don’t make computers more human, they allow us to be a little more human while we are using them."
design  gesture  touch  interaction  usability  ui  ux 
august 2010 by kvnglbrtsn
The Distance between Maker and User
"As the distance between the maker and user increases, so does the difficulty of designing a great user experience."
ux  ui  design  redesign 
july 2010 by kvnglbrtsn
Usability Heuristics for Rich Internet Applications
"The list below includes Nielsen’s heuristics in bold; our comments about how they apply to RIAs follow each heuristic." from Boxes and Arrows.
ia  ux  interface  reference  redesign 
july 2010 by kvnglbrtsn
Rich Internet Application Screen Design
"The hardest challenge is to blend Web and desktop paradigms to create a responsive and intuitive experience." from UX Magazine.
ia  interaction  interface  ux  ui  redesign 
july 2010 by kvnglbrtsn
Quick and Dirty Remote User Testing
"Don’t miss out on invaluable user feedback. Connect with your users to test your designs online and over the phone. There are no excuses." from A List Apart.
analytis  usability  ui  ux  research  content 
may 2010 by kvnglbrtsn
The Art & Science of Evidence-Based Design
"We don't have to maintain the pretense of a magical process that guarantees optimal results, but neither are we given free license to design whatever we want. Our decisions become accountable to the best available evidence whenever possible."
design  analytics  process  ux 
april 2010 by kvnglbrtsn
Don’t listen to Le Corbusier—or Jakob Nielsen
"Software cries out for personality, for ornamentation, for delight. To reflect higher aspirations, and evoke emotion."
ux  usability  software 
april 2010 by kvnglbrtsn
Scrolling and Attention
Web users spend 80% of their time looking at information above the page fold. Although users do scroll, they allocate only 20% of their attention below the fold. from Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox.
fold  design  research  usability  ux  ui 
march 2010 by kvnglbrtsn
Interaction10 Presentation Videos and Slides
IxD10.
design  presentation  conference  ux 
march 2010 by kvnglbrtsn
Your Computer Really Is a Part of You
"Chemero’s experiment, published March 9 in Public Library of Science, was designed to test one of Heidegger’s fundamental concepts: that people don’t notice familiar, functional tools, but instead 'see through' them to a task at hand, for precisely the same reasons that one doesn’t think of one’s fingers while tying shoelaces. The tools are us." from Wired.
cognition  philosophy  ux 
march 2010 by kvnglbrtsn
Five User Experience Trends I'll be Watching in 2010
"But another possibility is the emergence of a culture that truly values experience..."
ux  usability  trend  webdesign 
february 2010 by kvnglbrtsn
Usabilla
Transparent usability. Hassle free usability testing.
usability  analytics  ux 
february 2010 by kvnglbrtsn
UserTesting.com
Low cost usability testing
usability  ux  analytics 
february 2010 by kvnglbrtsn
The Problem with Passwords
The traditional password reset mechanism undermines the strength of the entire system. It doesn’t matter that my password is encrypted with the strongest ciphers known to man when it can simply be reset by anyone who knows which high school I attended. from a list apart.
ux  security  js  password 
february 2010 by kvnglbrtsn
Realism in UI Design
The goal is not to make your user interface as realistic as possible. The goal is to add those details which help users identify what an element is, and how to interact with it, and to add no more than those details.
web  usability  ux  ui 
january 2010 by kvnglbrtsn
Disrupting the conceptual metaphors of the web
We've developed an array of metaphors for talking about the intangible spaces of the web. Maybe it's time to unshackle ourselves from some of them. by Jeremy Keith in Scroll Magazine.
web  language  metaphor  virtual  ux 
january 2010 by kvnglbrtsn
Scroll
Scroll features in depth articles by deeply experienced practitioners in the fields of user experience design, web design, web development, information architecture, accessibility and more.
web  design  ux  magazine 
january 2010 by kvnglbrtsn
52 Weeks of UX
A discourse on the process of designing for real people.
ux  design 
january 2010 by kvnglbrtsn
URLs Matter
The humble URL has been on my mind a lot recently. Through a series of developments, this simple means of addressing the wonders of the web has been obfuscated and abused, to the point that it’s now seen as difficult to use and an affront to users.
url  ux  webdevelopment 
december 2009 by kvnglbrtsn
User experience: the future of web design
"Basically, the only thing that matters in terms of consistency going forward is consistency of the quality of user experience."
ux  design  browsers  future 
november 2009 by kvnglbrtsn
The Myth of Usability Testing
A good usability professional must identify high-priority problems and make appropriate recommendations. But a good designer must also be able to design well in the first place. This is one area in which usability testing has the power to hone designers’ instincts without the cost of formal testing on every project. from a list apart.
usability  analytics  process  methodology  ux  ui  redesign 
november 2009 by kvnglbrtsn
You Can Get There From Here: Websites for Learners
If what we find changes who we become, we have to be vigilant about creating content worth exploring, worth discovering. from a list apart.
education  learning  web  content  ux  usability 
november 2009 by kvnglbrtsn
The Future of Interface Design
Did you know the first “brain-tweet” was sent out this year? How about that we may someday be customizing windshields with widgets?
interface  design  ui  ux  future 
november 2009 by kvnglbrtsn
10 Heuristics for User Interface Design
These are ten general principles for user interface design. They are called "heuristics" because they are more in the nature of rules of thumb than specific usability guidelines. by Jakob Nielsen
ui  interface  tips  ux  interaction  usability  reference 
october 2009 by kvnglbrtsn
INFLUX
library user experience
ux  library 
october 2009 by kvnglbrtsn
Mastery, Mystery, and Misery: The Ideologies of Web Design
The design ideology can make or break a site. from Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox.
usability  design  ui  ux 
october 2009 by kvnglbrtsn
Corporate Usability Maturity: Stages 5-8
An organization that reaches the managed usability stage still has far to go to reach usability nirvana. Attaining these higher maturity levels requires many years of effort. from Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox.
usability  analytics  ux  ui  process 
october 2009 by kvnglbrtsn
Corporate Usability Maturity: Stages 1-4
As their usability approach matures, organizations typically progress through the same sequence of stages, from initial hostility to widespread reliance on user research. from Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox.
usability  analytics  ux  ui  development  roi 
october 2009 by kvnglbrtsn
Usability Testing Demystified
User research helps you make good, solid, confident decisions about design. The good news is that it doesn’t need to be complicated. from a list apart.
usability  ux  ui  process  howto  redesign 
october 2009 by kvnglbrtsn
Powers of 10: Time Scales in User Experience
From 0.1 seconds to 10 years or more, user interface design has many different timeframes, and each has its own particular usability issues. From Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox.
usability  ui  research  ux 
october 2009 by kvnglbrtsn
Why front-end developers are so important to the future of businesses on the web
or How traditional businesses who have moved to the web regularly undervalue their front-end web developers, and are worse off because of that
webdevelopment  webdesign  ux  ui  future  business 
september 2009 by kvnglbrtsn
10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines
from smashing magazine.
usability  tips  ux  ui  layout  fold  reference  redesign 
september 2009 by kvnglbrtsn
Top 10 UX Myths
from think vitamin.
ux  reference 
august 2009 by kvnglbrtsn
A Practical Guide to Capturing Creativity for UX
For UX professionals—and creative professionals in general—our ability to both stimulate creative thinking and capture it when it happens is a key aspect of our work process.
ux  tips  creativity  design 
july 2009 by kvnglbrtsn
Designing with Psychology in Mind
AEA slide deck. 5 principles.
design  psychology  ux  webdesign 
june 2009 by kvnglbrtsn
Visual Decision Making
If it takes only 50 milliseconds for users to form an aesthetic opinion of your site’s credibility and trustworthiness, are designers who create visually compelling sites simply wasting time and treasure on graphic indulgences? from a list apart.
graphics  ui  ux  webdesign 
june 2009 by kvnglbrtsn
How to Listen to the User and Hear the Experience
user experience and human factors research.
ux  research  communication 
may 2009 by kvnglbrtsn
Secrets Behind Designing Great User Experiences
UIE Roadshow 2009.
ux  ui  conference 
may 2009 by kvnglbrtsn
The Line Length Misconception
users will be perfectly fine reading longer columns of text.
ux  design  reference 
may 2009 by kvnglbrtsn
IA SUMMIT
for information architects and other user experience professionals.
ia  ux  conference 
may 2009 by kvnglbrtsn
Making Quicker Interface Decisions With Design Patterns
solid design pattern resources.
webdesign  webdevelopment  patterns  ux  ui 
may 2009 by kvnglbrtsn
UX Roast
a different kind of expert usability evaluation.
ux  usability  service 
may 2009 by kvnglbrtsn
Design Considerations for Touch UI
designing for touch-based mobile user interfaces.
ui  ux  interface  mobile  design  redesign 
april 2009 by kvnglbrtsn
Bargain Basement Usability Testing
test a little but often.
usability  ux  howto 
march 2009 by kvnglbrtsn
The Elements of Social Architecture
the social in social architecture. from a list apart.
social  ia  ux  patterns  webdesign 
march 2009 by kvnglbrtsn
Clear And Effective Communication In Web Design
methods, challenges, content, and tips.
webdesign  communication  ux  usability  redesign 
february 2009 by kvnglbrtsn
IxDA
serving the needs of the international interaction design community.
interaction  design  ui  ux  community 
january 2009 by kvnglbrtsn
10 Useful Web Application Interface Techniques
design patterns and useful design solutions.
ui  ux  tips  interface  usability  webdesign 
january 2009 by kvnglbrtsn
10 Useful Techniques To Improve Your User Interface Designs
from smashing magazine.
ui  ux  interface  layout  css  design 
december 2008 by kvnglbrtsn
The Elements of User Experience
a basic duality. from jesse james garrett.
ux  ui  web 
december 2008 by kvnglbrtsn
6 Interface Design Principles and Tips
tips for being a better interface designer.
webdesign  ux  ui  tips  usability 
december 2008 by kvnglbrtsn
Experience Design Manifesto
experiences must be immersive and sensorial. the more it talks to human senses, the better it will be.
design  ux  psychology 
november 2008 by kvnglbrtsn
Interacting with the Web of Things
computer interface fatigue and the principles of natural user interface design.
ui  ux  interface  interactive  technology 
october 2008 by kvnglbrtsn
Deafness and the User Experience
how deafness influences web accessibility. from a list apart.
accessibility  ux  usability  audio 
october 2008 by kvnglbrtsn
Concept Design Tools
set aside immediate technical and situational constraints.
design  ux  process  ideas 
october 2008 by kvnglbrtsn
7 Essential Guidelines For Functional Design
as a central part of the design process.
webdesign  howto  usability  ux  ui 
september 2008 by kvnglbrtsn
Mapping Memory: Web Designer as Information Cartographer
informed by a lefebvrian conception of cyberspace. from a list apart.
webdesign  cartography  usability  ui  ux  redesign  ia 
august 2008 by kvnglbrtsn
Simplicity vs. Features: A False Dichotomy?
modularization, mapping, conceptual models. from sitepoint.
design  usability  ui  ux 
august 2008 by kvnglbrtsn
Design for Emotion and Flow
a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention. from boxes and arrows.
web  design  psychology  ui  interface  ux  usability  redesign 
august 2008 by kvnglbrtsn
Introducing the Concept Series; Call for Participation
as we collectively explore and design future directions for the web. from mozilla labs.
web  design  culture  browsers  ideas  ux  usability 
august 2008 by kvnglbrtsn
Context Over Consistency
context dictates what people need.
webdevelopment  ui  usability  ux  interface 
august 2008 by kvnglbrtsn
Should Links Open In New Windows?
effective user interfaces place users in control. from smashing magazine.
accessibility  interface  usability  ui  ux 
july 2008 by kvnglbrtsn
UX Zeitgeist
important books and topics on user experience design, according to the ux community.
ux  ui  usability  web  interface  ia  design  resources  webdevelopment 
june 2008 by kvnglbrtsn
The Highly Extensible CSS Interface
extensibility is meaningful, lightweight, and resolution dependent.
css  webdesign  webdevelopment  interface  ui  ux  layout  extensible  howto 
april 2008 by kvnglbrtsn
URL as UI
navigating a web site simply by the url.
webdevelopment  ui  url  usability  ux 
april 2008 by kvnglbrtsn
Findability, Orphan of the Web Design Industry
connect your audience with your stuff. from a list apart.
accessibility  architecture  ia  usability  ux  webdevelopment  findability 
march 2008 by kvnglbrtsn
Sign Up Forms Must Die
the potential of gradual engagement. from a list apart.
webdesign  webdevelopment  ux  usability  forms  howto  interface 
march 2008 by kvnglbrtsn
Progressive CSS Enhancement
javascript-based rules that test for css behavior.
css  js  ui  ux  webdevelopment  browsers 
march 2008 by kvnglbrtsn
Coming Soon: Nothing Between You and Your Machine
a new kind of immersive experience.
interface  technology  ui  interactive  ux  web 
march 2008 by kvnglbrtsn
Personas and the Role of Design Documentation
how it’s less about deliverables, and more about design.
design  personas  usability  ux 
february 2008 by kvnglbrtsn
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