User Experience.UX Design

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, well, natural? The internet-based hypertext web, so far, has proven a great journey for much of ... Read Full Can The Web Save Us? Article »

Top Ten Seven Definitions of User Experience / UX Design

Having determined to collect and share with you the top ten definitions of User Experience Design from the most credible sources, and so you to form your own, say, meta impression, I found the network falling just short. So, here are the top seven, with an invitation to you to contribute those definitions of user experience design (full three terms) that you find or know of. Inclusion is conditional, however, on a credibility standard that can only be defined as "... Read Full Top Seven UX Design Definitions Article »

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, please post them via comments, below. Basically the days are divided in to lectures, in the morning, and workshops in the afternoon. This, to me, seems an "inside out" approach: If I were a lecturer, I'd p... Read Full UX Week SF 08.08 Article »

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 applied to media design and production. This is not the same as having an interactive media strategy. The way you can tell whether or not your organization has an interactive media strategy is if it measures interaction goals specifically. Because it i... Read Full Got Strategy? Article »

Are the means and interests of design strategy and business management inherently at odds with each other? If so, then why do they need each other so much? As in most of life this far from the sun: paradoc reigns. Let's look at the vinegar and oil relationship between practices of design strategy and business, and see if we can make a little dressing from it. Almost as soon as I'd first landed a gig in a web group at... Read Full Strategy vs. Management? Article »

Yes, Google is very Googley. As Yahoo! is, well, Yahoo-ey, I suppose. But is Yahoo! actually Googley-er than Google itself? Using a simple UX score card, let's see. How well, then, does Google measure up against its own UX... Read Full Googleyness and Yahoo! Article »

Dan Saffer's first foray in to print publishing, Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices, is a tight little knit of a book. It starts from the beginning... well, the beginning of interaction design, and tours us through its evolution to the present. Here, for better or worse (jury is out), it begins to bleed out from the digital to analog world. Though... Read Full Designing For Interaction Article »

Jesse James Garrett began writing The Elements of User Experience - User-Centered Design For The Web in 2001. The date and title alone are poof of Garrett's thought leadership in the area of web design. This important and nascent work was spawned by the popularity, as evidenced by tens of thousands ... Read Full Elements of User Experience Article »

And the Designers Who Don't Love Them

Some psychologists have said that fathers and sons are in competition, in a sense, because both are in love with the same woman. Oedipus thought so. Electra, too, as she assumed the female equivalent of Oedipus' complex. For our part, however, can designers and their managers have a similar sort of problem in their relationship? To a greater degree than for other professions, designers and the managers who direct them share a love of strategic de... Read Full Managers Who Love Design… Article »

Brendon Schauer's UX Strategy day at UX Intensive 2008 in San Francisco was excellent. See Brandon's UX Strategy presentation slides. ... Read Full UX Intensive Strategy Article »