User Experience.UX Design

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 »

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 »