User Experience.UX Design

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

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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. ... Read Full UX Intensive Strategy Article »

Of Bugs and Humbugs

We all have blind spots. Literally and figuratively. Blind spots are areas of reality we are not normally aware of. We have blind spots of vision (physiological), blind spots of perception (experiential and cultural), even of blind spots of themselves (psychological). Not to worry, though; it's only natural. It's because, dear reader, mother nature loves you... she doesn't want you to see everything at at once. Imagine how overwhelming it would be to take in all of the information surrounding you, ... Read Full Stumbling on Usability Article »

The origins and meaning of "User Experience / UX Design" may seem a bit murky at first glance, to many not already familiar with it. One early use of it, without "user" prefixed, appeared in the nascent "Advance for Design" meetings organized by Clement Mok et al, under AIGA sponsorship, between 1998 and 2000. Mention is made, too, in the first post to uxmatters.com, of Don Norman using the term at Apple as early as 1993.

Though implying a Gestalt approach to interactive media d... Read Full What is UX? Article »