User Experience.UX Design

The Information Architecture Institute is holding their Information, Design, Experience, Access (IDEA) conference at Chicago's Harold Washington Library, this coming October 7 and 8, 2008. The IDEA Conf. Chicago 10.08 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 »

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 »

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 »