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...
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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...
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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...
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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 an...
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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 design principles? We'll first compare Google's and Yahoo!'s top-tier serv...
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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...
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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 thousa...
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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 a...
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Brendon Schauer's UX Strategy day at UX Intensive 2008 in San Francisco was excellent. See Brandon's UX Strategy presentation slides.
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