User Experience.UX Design

The Information Architecture Institute is holding their Information, Design, Experience, Access (IDEA) conference at Chicago's Harold Washington Library, this coming October 7 and 8, 2008. The IDEA Conference addresses issues of design for an always-on, always-connected world. Where "cyberspace... Read IDEA Conf. Chicago 10.08 »

No interaction designer with a serious concern for usability (as is our want) should be allowed to graduate on to later readings on the topic of user-interface / UI design, UX / UE, human factors, or any related design field, without first reading Don Norman's book, The Psychology of Everyday Things... Read Psychology of Everyday Things »

Book review of Information Dashboard Design, by Stephen Few. Published by O'Reilly, © 2006. Information Dashboard Design, by Stephen Few, is, as he says himself, "above all else... a book about communication. It focuses exclusively on a particular medium of communication called a dashboard. ... Read Information Dashboard Design »

On 7.14-15.08 The Silicon Valley Microfinance Network will host Microfinance West at the Fishermans Wharf Hilton in San Francisco. I'd love to attend but, quite unfortunately for all, it requires a macro-financial investment to register and attend.... Read Microfinance West, 07.08 »

Jeffrey Veen and Co. have whipped up The Start Conference to help, and of course be helped by, those who'd like to start their own companies, and "quit your day job." Looks like a great forum. Of particular personal interest is presence of and, I presume, presentation by Dave McClure. I'd love to... Read Start Conference, SF 08.08 »

Jeffrey Veen and Co. have whipped up The Start Conference to help, and of course be helped by, those who'd like to start their own companies, and to "quit your day job." Looks like a great forum. Of particular personal interest is presence of and, I presume, presentation by Dave McClure. I'd love... Read Start Conference, SF 8.7.08 »

Physics, The Internet, and Culture, Oh My! The Web (yes, it is a place) has expanded network consciousness. As life itself is now widely considered to be a network of networks, inter-connected by information feedback loops allowing co-evolution, will human society's impact on nature become more, ... Read Can The Web Save Us? »

Top Ten Seven Definitions of User Experience / UX Design Having determined to collect and share the top ten definitions of User Experience Design from the most credible sources, for you to form your own impressions, I found the number of respected sources falling just short, not in quality but qu... Read Top Eight UX Design Definitions »

Adaptive Path's (AP) UX Week event is coming up in August, 11th through 15th: 8/11-8/15 2008. The 11th, however, is for registration and reception only, so it's really a four (4) day seminar. If you have attended previous UX Weeks, and have thoughts about it that others could benefit from, pleas... Read UX Week SF 08.08 »

Got Strategy? The way you can tell whether your organization has an interactive media strategy, and is using it, or not, is by how it measures goal achievement. If you produce interactive media and measure success in leads and sales ("conversion"), for example, then you have a sales strategy appl... Read Got Strategy? »