user experience design

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• Week in Microsoft: Windows 7, Windows 8, Bing Maps

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 164
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  20 hours ago

• The Phone Book – Designing Interactive Storytelling Experiences For Parents & Kids

  
  Steffan Antonas's Blog — Authority: 110
  It takes about 30 seconds to realize that this product is a perfect marriage between digital and analog. The interface is simple, and the story telling is rich and engaging. What a fantastic way to bring together parents and children. Not only does it encourage reading, it also inspires creativity. This video was ...
  1 day ago

• Shifting Perspective

  
  Adaptive Path — Authority: 486
  We in the user experience design industry talk a lot about keeping the user’s perspective in mind as we make things. User research helps us do that. User testing keeps us in check. And here’s another interesting way to shift your perspective…shake things up and look at it from the object’s point-of-view. ...
  2 days ago

• Weekly links

  
  USiT — Authority: 100
  US universities reject ‘inaccessible’ Kindle e-Book The E-Access Bulletin reports … Two American universities have rejected the market-leading Kindle DX electronic book reader as a textbook replacement due to its inaccessibility for blind students. Both Syracuse University in New York State and the ...
  4 days ago

• Designing for Sociality in Enterprise Search

  
  Semantic Foundry, LLC — Authority: 402
  A few weeks ago, I was able to collaborate with Brynn Evans in creating a presentation for Enterprise Search Summit West. Here is the description of the presentation as well as links to the original on SlideShare.Social search has the potential to improve search practices beyond what is possible with traditional ...
  4 days ago

• Don’t Separate the Problems, or You’ll Mess Up the Solution

  
  Conceptology — Authority: 107
  Alvar Aalto once said that nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. This is something that we often struggle with in our work in digital advertising. Much as a result of the waterfall model and the general legacy of the industrial era production line mentality, we tend to separate ...
  1 week ago

• Designing for Inaccuracy?

  
  UserGlue UserBlog — Authority: 92
  I know it might come across as crazy, but I think there’s something to be said about designing for inaccuracy. And, of course, someone else has already probably thought of this and there’s a fancy (or simple) name for it.  That’s okay; it’s on my mind and I’d like to rattle it out. The Back Story The ...
  1 week ago

• What would Sally do? Personas for retail financial services

  
  dancingmango — Authority: 410
  Personas are ‘pen portraits’ that bring to life users or customers of a system, service or product.  Giving a personality and back story to your customers helps keep your thinking true to their real needs and goals.  Rather than using  ‘user’ or a segment descriptor such as ‘empty nester’, or ‘this is ...
  1 week ago

• Measure Twice, Cut Once

  
  Mike McCready — Authority: 113
  This old adage is so true when working with wood or other materials that require measuring and cutting.  The premise is that it is far less costly to spend an extra few minutes double-checking your measurements then to make the wrong cut and waste your material. This also so very true with web design. It is far less ...
  2 weeks ago

• Never Launch, Just Iterate

  
  Marketing.fm — Authority: 539
  Image by digitaltree515 via Flickr Last week I hosted a group of NYC entrepreneurs who came out to hear from Steve Blank . It was a great event and I am working on getting the video online. During the night Steve asked the audience a great question; “when did Google launch?” It was met with blank stares ...
  2 weeks ago

• Apple iPhone Tech Talk London 2009: iPhone User Interface DesignEssentials

  
  Expanding horizons — Authority: 131
  Eric Hope ehope@apple.com — User Interface Evangelist solve a problem clearly defined style axes: (usage) serious / fun; (content) tool / entertainment serious tool use alignment well — see address book & settings for examples avoid redundancy if a word is showing up more than once on a screen, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Why Text on the Web is Getting Smaller

  
  Adam Darowski — Authority: 107
  Last night, I tweeted : I increase the font size of at least 1/3 of the web sites I visit. You can joke about my declining eyesight all you want. But you can’t ignore this: What 12px Text Used To Look Like On a 14.1″ PowerBook G3 (Pismo) What 12px Looks Like Now On a 15.4″ MacBook Pro Why? ...
  3 weeks ago

• MDBG Pinyin dictionary may look ugly yet functional

  
  User-Centered Design - Kelikuru.com — Authority: 104
  While browsing the web in a more relaxed pace during weekend, TG find a Chinese-English dictionary with pin-yin audio. This is what I desperately need for a while. The user interface  design of the chinese-english dictionary is super super simple. To be more exact, it rarely has any design but yet very ...
  4 weeks ago

• Case Study:ICANN website revamp based on Usability Study

  
  User-Centered Design - Kelikuru.com — Authority: 104
  In the last couple of months, TG happened to notice that a few web site design revamps undertaking by major corporations –  ICANN, W3C, and Alibaba.com are taking usability studies to get users involved in the whole web site design process.Conducted by Revere Group, ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names ...
  5 weeks ago

• Data mines and ideas of time

  
  Putting people first — Authority: 133
  The boys at design consultancy BERG are prolific this week: Toiling in the data-mines: what data exploration feels like by Tom Armitage “There are several aspects to this post. Partly, it’s about what material explorations look like when performed with data. Partly, it’s about the role of code as a tool to ...
  5 weeks ago

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