User Experience.UX Design

No interaction designer with a serious concern for usability (as is our want) should be allowed to graduate on to later writings on the topic of user-interface / UI design, UX / UE, human factors, or any related design field, ... Read Full Psychology of Everyday Things Article »

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 »

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 »

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 »

I'm extremely excited to be attending Adaptive Path's 2008 UX Intensive event in San Francisco, starting tomorrow. The even continues through the week and I will be attending all sessions. Tomorrow is the Design Strategy session, led by Experience Design Director, . I'll take notes and attempt to provide my dear readers with some highlights and take-aways for ... Read Full UX Intensive - Adaptive Path SF 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 »