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Upcoming User Experinece Design Events
By uxdesign.comPublished 7/26/09
UX Design Events Feed: conferences, meet-ups, and gatherings for commiseration between user experience designers, interaction designers, user interface designers, information architects, web application developers, user experience managers and directors, and others generally interested in web software.
Read Full Upcoming User Experinece Design Events Article »
SEO and UX: Common Goals
By Michael CummingsPublished 4/25/09
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 optimization (SEO) have to with user experience design? If we accept Norman's definition of user experience; everything. Often the first impre... Read Full SEO and UX: Common Goals Article »
Good Design
By Michael CummingsPublished 4/5/09
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 leave untrained people thinking design quality is subjective; merely personal taste. And though it can sometimes be, it certainly need not be. So let's make a distinction, for baseline clarity.
One of the main distinctions between design ... Read Full Good Design Article »
Design Bliss
By Michael CummingsPublished 4/4/09
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 us and others feel good, they are practical, useful tools we can apply to our design craft.
Of course, we don't only design for "u... Read Full Design Bliss Article »
Minority Report Mouse’s Deminse
By Michael CummingsPublished 3/17/09
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 Happy Cog) trinity, deftly Read Full Minority Report Mouse’s Deminse Article »
Agile 2008 Alan Cooper Interview
By uxdesign.comPublished 3/15/09
Alan Cooper Interview, Agile 2008
For those lacking time to watch the entire 45 minute video, here are a few interview excerpts, to highlight Cooper's ideas about Agile, Extreme Programming, Open Source, and being a knowledge worker/programmer in the post industrial age, working in organization managed around indu... Read Full Agile 2008 Alan Cooper Interview Article »
How Sociable Is Your Media?
By Michael CummingsPublished 3/8/09
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?
Being a human-centered designer, and applying empathic design practices, are not just a matter of making web... Read Full How Sociable Is Your Media? Article »
Don Norman Video: UX Week
By Michael CummingsPublished 2/24/09
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.
How To Win Users
By uxdesign.comPublished 1/25/09
How To Win Users and Influence Their Behavior
Most of us who have practiced, and sometimes merely preached, user-centered design understand that at its core it means giving people what they want, not what we think they do, and especially to strive never, ever, to assume that they want what we do. This requires methodical testing and reliance on empirical data. Sure, with exposure to enough of it, continually, over time we can find common patters of how people do things via human-computer interactions. And something of How To Win Users Article »
Read Full Upcoming User Experinece Design Events Article »
SEO and UX: Common Goals
By Michael CummingsPublished 4/25/09
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 optimization (SEO) have to with user experience design? If we accept Norman's definition of user experience; everything. Often the first impre... Read Full SEO and UX: Common Goals Article »
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 optimization (SEO) have to with user experience design? If we accept Norman's definition of user experience; everything. Often the first impre... Read Full SEO and UX: Common Goals Article »Good Design
By Michael CummingsPublished 4/5/09
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 leave untrained people thinking design quality is subjective; merely personal taste. And though it can sometimes be, it certainly need not be. So let's make a distinction, for baseline clarity.
One of the main distinctions between design ... Read Full Good Design Article »
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 leave untrained people thinking design quality is subjective; merely personal taste. And though it can sometimes be, it certainly need not be. So let's make a distinction, for baseline clarity. One of the main distinctions between design ... Read Full Good Design Article »Design Bliss
By Michael CummingsPublished 4/4/09
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 us and others feel good, they are practical, useful tools we can apply to our design craft.
Of course, we don't only design for "u... Read Full Design Bliss Article »
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 us and others feel good, they are practical, useful tools we can apply to our design craft. Of course, we don't only design for "u... Read Full Design Bliss Article »Minority Report Mouse’s Deminse
By Michael CummingsPublished 3/17/09
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 Happy Cog) trinity, deftly Read Full Minority Report Mouse’s Deminse Article »
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 Happy Cog) trinity, deftly Read Full Minority Report Mouse’s Deminse Article »
Agile 2008 Alan Cooper Interview
By uxdesign.comPublished 3/15/09
Alan Cooper Interview, Agile 2008
For those lacking time to watch the entire 45 minute video, here are a few interview excerpts, to highlight Cooper's ideas about Agile, Extreme Programming, Open Source, and being a knowledge worker/programmer in the post industrial age, working in organization managed around indu... Read Full Agile 2008 Alan Cooper Interview Article »
Alan Cooper Interview, Agile 2008
For those lacking time to watch the entire 45 minute video, here are a few interview excerpts, to highlight Cooper's ideas about Agile, Extreme Programming, Open Source, and being a knowledge worker/programmer in the post industrial age, working in organization managed around indu... Read Full Agile 2008 Alan Cooper Interview Article »How Sociable Is Your Media?
By Michael CummingsPublished 3/8/09
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?
Being a human-centered designer, and applying empathic design practices, are not just a matter of making web... Read Full How Sociable Is Your Media? Article »
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? Being a human-centered designer, and applying empathic design practices, are not just a matter of making web... Read Full How Sociable Is Your Media? Article »Don Norman Video: UX Week
By Michael CummingsPublished 2/24/09
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.
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.How To Win Users
By uxdesign.comPublished 1/25/09
How To Win Users and Influence Their Behavior
Most of us who have practiced, and sometimes merely preached, user-centered design understand that at its core it means giving people what they want, not what we think they do, and especially to strive never, ever, to assume that they want what we do. This requires methodical testing and reliance on empirical data. Sure, with exposure to enough of it, continually, over time we can find common patters of how people do things via human-computer interactions. And something of How To Win Users Article »
How To Win Users and Influence Their Behavior
Most of us who have practiced, and sometimes merely preached, user-centered design understand that at its core it means giving people what they want, not what we think they do, and especially to strive never, ever, to assume that they want what we do. This requires methodical testing and reliance on empirical data. Sure, with exposure to enough of it, continually, over time we can find common patters of how people do things via human-computer interactions. And something of How To Win Users Article »Copyright © 2002-2010 uxdesign.com | Terms & Conditions | Site Map | uxbooks.com