User Experience.UX Design

Re. http://vimeo.com/6952223 Jesse James Garrett gives a State of the User Experience Address UX Week - Video Jesse James Garrett, author of The Elements of User Experience - User-Centered Design For The Web, who can be considered one of the founding fathers of user experience design as a m... Read Garrett’s State of User Experience »

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 optimiz... Read SEO and UX: Common Goals »

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 l... Read Good Design »

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 u... Read Design Bliss »

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 Hap... Read Minority Report Mouse’s Deminse »

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... Read Agile 2008 Alan Cooper Interview »

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? Bein... Read How Sociable Is Your Media? »

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. ... Read Don Norman Video: UX Week »

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... Read How To Win Users »