User Experience
- Activity-Centered Design
- Let’s talk about the iPod. - Good or bad usability?
- Netway Interface Comfort Zone - Ignoring the ridiculous use of a trademark symbol to describe the comfort viewing area of a page, I'm trying to decide if this "research" has any validity or not.
- 10 Principles Of Effective Web Design
- 101 Things I Learned in Interaction Design School - Nice site, doing a interaction take on 101 things I learned from architecture school
- 11 Parallels Between Architecture and Interface Design
- 12 Standard Screen Patterns
- 20 cool interaction design concepts - and not all of them are completely insane
- 7 Interface Design Techniques to Simplify and De-clutter Your Interfaces
- 7 User Experience Lessons from the iPhone
- 9 experiences for 2009 - A little heavy on the buzzwords, but an interesting read nonetheless.
- Kevin Cornell
- A Captology Primer - Captology is a term coined by B.J. Fogg with sees computer systems as a persuasive technology
- A Long Line for a Shorter Wait at the Supermarket
- A Periodic Table of Visulization Methods - Nice
- A Sport Psychologist’s contribution to user-experience design
- A matter of taste - What is taste and why is it important?
- Action Pad - For the UX person in your life
- Airport express - What provides the best ration of satisfaction to frustration. A small increase of efficiency for everybody or a large increase for a few.
- Ambient Intimacy - Good article from Leisa
- An Interview with Barry Schwartz at Boxes and Arrows - A really good interview covering the paradox of choice and why less is often more. Go read it!
- An introduction to user journeys
- Andy Budd on User Experiences and Design - An interview with me on Fadtastic
- Animating paper prototypes
- Application Interface Design - Garrett Dimon on the design of his issue tracking app
- Applying Curiosity to Interaction Design: Tell Me Something I Don’t Know
- Balancing Pogosticking and Page Relevance
- Behavioral Game Design
- Cadence & Slang, a small book about interaction design - Interesting looking self published book which raised funds through kickstarter.
- Collaborative work sessions - Collaborative Design is something we should all be doing more of.
- Crappy Personas vs. Robust Personas
- Creating prototypes with OmniGraffle - Nice little screencast on creating interactive wireframes
- Design starts with Proposition - So true
- Designing Breakthrough
- Designing For Flow - Nice article on architecting a state of flow on a website
- Designing Web Applications for Use
- Designing end-to-end user experiences - Mr Brignull talking sense as usual
- Designing web sites that sell - A nice introduction to persuasive architecture
- Dilbert on User Experience
- Do social media sites need user-centred design?
- Don Norman vs. 37 Signals - I know which side I'm on, but can you guess ;-)
- Elevator Story
- Experience design is not about brands - An interesting rant about the difference between experience design and brand experience from adaptive path.
- Eye Candy IS A Critical Business Requirement
- Factors that improve online experiences
- First Principles of Interaction Design - An old article, but worth another read
- Five Principles to Design By - Great post from Joshua Porter
- FoodUX - A rather quirky blog on food and UX Design
- GUIMagnets - Now you can wireframe on your fridge
- Gordon Ramsay - a guerrilla UX consultant?
- Graffletopia - A great collection of FREE UI stencils for OmniGraffle
- Great Products By Design - A product manager on the importance of user experience
- How Buildings Learn - So are big name architects the Flash designers of the built world?
- How Ford's Sync Technology Will Turn It Into America's Most Surprising Consumer Electronics Company
- How to avoid the UX dark side - A really good presentation by Cennydd Bowles from BarCamp Brighton
- Human-to-Human Design - Nice user experience article over at ALA
- Improving Interface Design - Nice presentation by Garrett Dimon
- Indistinguishable from magic - Computer games are all about the narrative
- Influencing the customer experience through the internet
- Interface Design Quotes
- Investing in UX - A $50k investment in 10 UX focused companies last year netted this company $69,195.38, and outperformed the NASDAQ by over 100%.
- IxD FTW
- Kansei Engineering
- Know Your Core: Providing Focus for Web Applications
- Konigi - Nice resource for UX people
- LEGO Experience Wheel - Interesting tool for visualising and designing the customer experience
- Legible London - I love the fact that this public signage project a) has it's own website and b) makes a point of it being legible.
- Lessons from Celebrity Chefs: heuristic inspection or user-centred design?
- Making Personas Work for Your Site
- Metrics for Heuristics
- Microsoft Homepage Redesign - Includes some interesting UX features
- Microsoft Surface - Very interesting
- Miomi - There is some really interesting interesting interaction design on this site about historical events, including live news updating, on-the-fly filtering, and a really interesting timeline navigation.
- Mixx - I quite like the user experience design on this news and links site. Not enough to use it myself, but I'm sure some people will
- Monolog Boxes and Transparent Messages - I really like this idea. Could it be the next "yellow fade effect"?
- Mood Maps - Really interesting post on mood maps. Worth following some of the supporting links as well.
- On Engineering and Design: An Open Letter - Nice little article on UX by Bill Buxton
- Out of Box Experience Design
- Packaging Design for Web-based Products - A fantastic article by Luke Wroblewski, on how user experience designer can implement the lessons learned from packaging design. Very inspirational and definitely worth a read.
- Packaging Design for Web-based Products - I really love this article from LukeW about packaging design as it so closely mirrors my thoughts on the subject.
- Pattern Tap - Interface Collection for Design Inspiration
- Pattern-based design
- Picnik - Enjoy the user experience of this online image editing app.
- Poster girls and boys of Euro IA 2006 - User experience posters from framfab
- Product Planner - Interesting little site for sharing process patterns
- Product pages - so much suck, so easy to fix
- Progressive Disclosure
- Prototyping Survey Results - Interesting survey showing that 81% of people create paper and 58% of people create hand coded HTML prototypes
- Psychology Of Social Design - Great talk from Mr Porter
- Psychology of Social Design Talk
- Real Time Design - A talk from next08 on agile UX
- Reconizing and Directing Traffic Flow - An interesting article on how show designers plan out their store for maximum traffic flow.
- Seth Godin on Broken Designs - Very funny
- Sketchboards - Interesting planning idea from Adaptive Path
- So you want to be an interaction designer 2006 - Good advice
- Soxiam UI Set - A lovely flickt set of designs and wireframe sketches, largely from vimeo
- Starbucks Tribal Knowledge - Designing the Starbucks customer experience
- That design is money! - The design rational behind the new Wells Fargo ATM UI
- The Art & Science of Seductive Interactions - One of the best talks from the IA Summit
- The Complexity of Simplicity - Making soomething simple isn't as easy as you'd think.
- The Content Conundrum - A nice article on the importance of good content in design
- The Customer Experience - interesting article from Fast Compay on customer experience design
- The Customer Experience - This article is over 7 years old, but it's as relevant today as it was in 1999!
- The DO Lectures - An interesting "FOO Camp" like event from the folks at Howies
- The Designer as Facilitator
- The Fundamentals of Experience Design - the poster
- The Interface of a Cheeseburger - Nice post
- The Psychology Behind Games
- The Psychology of Choice
- The Task Analysis Grid - A nice UXD deliverable
- The Web Credibility Project - 10 credibility guidelines from Stanford University based on 3 years of research and over 4,500 people
- The iPhone Effect - Does the iPhone marketing campaign teach users how it works, turning them into experts within the first 5 minutes of use?
- Top 100 User-Centered Blogs - Well, there are a 100 of them, at least.
- UXD tipped as one of the best jobs for 2008
- Understanding Organizational Stakeholders for Design Success
- Usability for Evil
- User Experience Pain Free - Nice presentation on user experience
- User Interface Design Patterns
- Using Personas to inform design
- Walking Through Your Product Design With Stakeholders - Workshop and meeting facilitation may sound like the dullest thing on the planet, but on most projects, this is vital.
- We're hiring! - If you fancy yourself as the next Jeff Veen or Peter Merholz, then we're hiring!
- Web Trends Map
- WebPatterns
- Websites should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler
- What Malcolm Gladwell’s book Outliers can teach us about interface design - Bokardo - Josh Porter takes a very strange tack associating web design with a plane crash. But sadly for a lot of web sites this association is all too appropriate.
- What are game mechanics?
- Why we play games - A very interesting paper on the 4 types of fun in computer games.
- Wireframes Magazine - Promising blog dedicated to the fine are of wireframing
- Yahoo! Design Pattern Library Stencils - A nice set of stencils for OmniGraffle
- iPad User Experience Guidelines
- inspireUX - Some interesting UX quotes
- olving the enigmas of everyday design
