User Experience.UX Design

SEO and UX Design User experience, and our abilities as designers to guide and influence it positively, "starts from when you first hear about a product," says Don Norman. And we should listen. After all, he coined "user experience design" over a decade ago. So what does search engine optimiz... Read SEO and UX: Common Goals »

Art vs. Design, Form and Function Good design can seem subjective. Most design award contests are expert-judged, and the judging criteria are seldom formally defined or revealed. This may afford judges lots of latitude in their scoring, but there is a cost to the rest of us. This approach can l... Read Good Design »

Design Bliss, Even In A Down Economy In the world of software interaction design we talk a lot about empathic design. That's good, because designing well means understanding well the people we're designing for. But can we have empathy without compassion? Empathy and compassion can not only make u... Read Design Bliss »

User Interface Pre-cog's Predict End of the Mouse We've likely all seen it: John Anderton, played by Tom Cruise, snaps on his information man-handling gloves and proceeds to literally manipulate the recorded premonitions (future memories?) served up by the pre-cog (not to be confused with a Hap... Read Minority Report Mouse’s Deminse »

The Peril and Promise of Web "3.0" As you probably know the etymology of "democratic" is Greek; prefix demo- "people" + kratia "rule". People rule in a democracy. If people rule in your design process, then it is essentially a democratic project. But ask yourself, do they rule... really? Bein... Read How Sociable Is Your Media? »

Re. http://vimeo.com/2963837 Don Norman interviewed by Peter Merholz UX Week - Video Don Norman, the esteemed "Ralph Nader of design," gives us 52:29 of his time to offer wisdom gained from his experience in matters of user experience, design, business, and making our case to management. ... Read Don Norman Video: UX Week »

Re: http://lukew.com/ff/ A note of appreciation for Luke's notes from User Interface 13 Conference, on Jared Spool's keynote, and Peter Merholz's walk-through of 16 steps his research shows are required to become an experience-driven organization. Jared's tack on user-centered design (UCD) dog... Read Notes from User Interface 13 Conference »

Today, Adaptive Path's Aurora hit the bits (previously, airwaves). Most likely you've already seen the video. Though Apple and others have been testing the 3-D GUIs waters form some time now, with the "genie" icons rising when we "run" the My first impression recalled the same images that others... Read Adaptive Path’s Aurora »

In this second installment of Googleyness and Yahoo! we compare the services that, you might say, keep the lights on; search engine marketing (SEM), to assess for ourselves which is "Googleyer", according to Google's own definition of Googleyness. First, The Contender Yahoo! Search Engine Mark... Read Googleyness and Yahoo! II »

Web Application Success Recipes When we first launch in to a great new venture, interest or passion, a common impulse is to put all of our best ideas in to it. Well, the ones we think are best, at least, often in our naiveté. What's true for my eldest sisters lemon squares is also true for... Read Applying Successful Recipes »