Pinboard: bookmarks for mattb tagged 'ux'

Keith Lang has temporarily abandoned his usual digs and written an essay for carsonified.com. Titled Top 10 UX Myths, it contains a number of common false or misguided beliefs about user experience design. It’s worth checking out the whole well-researched article, but I want to pick out a few of his myths and comment on them.

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january 2010 by mattb

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Roulette — Jack Cheng

Apophenia is the name for our brains’ tendency to seek patterns in random data, like looking at the blinking vertical sign next to the roulette table and thinking you know what the next number is going to be. I believe it’s also the reason New York feels so special. When you cram millions of people onto a tiny island, you start noticing what seems like more than mere coincidence. In a place like New York, that wheel gets spun so much more frequently—the friction generates so much more data to pick from—that your apophenia’s working in overdrive. Sooner or later, you notice the same number come up a few times in a row and it feels like magic.

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november 2009 by mattb

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Design Minutae

Finishing a significant consumer software application is essentially a process of nailing down a profusion of tiny details like the ones Torrez calls out here. It can seem like death by a thousand paper cuts, and it becomes even more painful when you realize that you can’t market based on polish, and no user will laud you for making sure a button is properly disabled, an icon is perfectly aligned, or a design is properly thought out. One of the hardest things about shipping Birdfeed was staying committed to slaving away on such minutae while other, often less polished, clients beat me to market.

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november 2009 by mattb

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Start - A Conference for Entrepreneurs
conference startup ux
july 2009 by mattb

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Cooper Journal: Is Interaction Design a dead-end job?
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july 2009 by mattb

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adaptive path » starting a career in user experience
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july 2009 by mattb

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Evolution of a Header | GarrettDimon.com

If there's anything I've learned about designing web applications in recent years, it's the fact that things change over the course of a project. Learning to embrace that fact and direct it towards a productive evolutionary process has made a significant impact on my work.

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july 2009 by mattb

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user-centered url design
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july 2009 by mattb

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Balsamiq Mockups
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july 2009 by mattb

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Choices - Joel on Software

Every time you provide an option, you're asking the user to make a decision. That means they will have to think about something and decide about it. It's not necessarily a bad thing, but, in general, you should always try to minimize the number of decisions that people have to make.

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july 2009 by mattb

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adaptive path » aurora concept video

Aurora is a concept video presenting one possible future user experience for the Web, created by Adaptive Path as part of the Mozilla Labs concept browser series. Aurora explores new ways people could interact with the Web in the future based on projected technological trends and real-world scenarios.

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july 2009 by mattb

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Create the Filter | Dustin Curtis

The only thing that matters to a company of any size is its product and customer experience. That's it. That's what creates value. The number and type of people who work at a company do not matter. The bureaucracy that develops to manage those people does not matter. The only thing that matters is what gets ultimately produced by the entire system of an organization. If you think of it this way, then you can't be influenced by the ridiculous inertia of political crap that has developed internally. If there are deficiencies in the product or experience that leads to decreased value for the customer, it’s because some part of the system is broken. So you fix the system in such a way that you cannot produce bad products or experiences. Those fixes might include things like a reduction in workforce, hiring more talented employees, or changing bureaucratic rules. It doesn't really matter as long as the product improves. But how to know when the product is improving?

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july 2009 by mattb

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Writing Microcopy

The fastest way to improve your interface is to improve your copy-writing.

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june 2009 by mattb

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Frogmetrics

Next generation point-of-experience customer satisfaction surveys.

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june 2009 by mattb

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Corporate Information - Google User Experience

The Google User Experience team aims to create designs that are useful, fast, simple, engaging, innovative, universal, profitable, beautiful, trustworthy, and personable. Achieving a harmonious balance of these ten principles is a constant challenge. A product that gets the balance right is "Googley" – and will satisfy and delight people all over the world.

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june 2009 by mattb

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Designing the UI of Things for iPhone

We recently shared some early interface sketches of Things for a presentation on iPhone User Interface Design.

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june 2009 by mattb

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Pattern Tap : Organized Web Design Collection of User Interfaces for Inspiration and Ideas. The CSS Gallery Alternative - Pattern Tap

Pattern Tap is here to satisfy and encourage the inspiration needs of my interface design peers and peeps. We aspire to be the one stop pattern shop for your next inspiration need.

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march 2009 by mattb

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Manton Reece: Defending Safari 4 tabs
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march 2009 by mattb

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One-Button Mouse | Vagabond Tabs
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march 2009 by mattb

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List of human-computer interaction topics
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march 2009 by mattb

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School of Visual Arts — MFA in Interaction Design

What I should've taken: What'd I'd rather do:

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february 2009 by mattb

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Made by Elephant - We craft interfaces

We are a small creative agency specialized in designing websites and online applications.

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february 2009 by mattb

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Mood Boards - a set on Flickr

Every week, I do a mood board that depicts stuff that I'm doing, things on my mind, music I'm listening to, books I'm reading, movies I'm seeing, etc.

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january 2009 by mattb

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A design and usability blog: Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)
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june 2008 by mattb

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Contact Manager, Web Based CRM, Address Book for Small Business: Highrise
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april 2008 by mattb

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User Experience at Google (Video)
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april 2008 by mattb

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