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UX is so 2012. But in a good way…

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Image credit: Ben Mund, “Happy 2012″, December 26, 2011, Flickr
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Title: Five Big UX Topics in 2012
Context: Wait! It’s still January right? We can still talk about 2012 then?!?!
Synopsis: So, now they come crawling back. Begging on hands and knees, employing us user experience practitioners to save their poorly design bacon. We’re not so superfluous now are we? Not so much eye rolling when we walk in the room now is there? Ha! I don’t think so! No, now they need us. Can’t get along without us. Treating us with respect and citing our criticality to their business success. Oh how the mighty have fallen. Who knows? We might even agree to save your business. If you continue to ask nicely???
Best Bit: “Now that the UX ‘seat at the table’ has opened up, we???ll need to be prepared to discuss the developments and business impact of our discipline at a strategic level. “

I for one welcome our new robotic mobile personal telepresence alter-ego overlords.

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Title: Can’t Make The Meeting? Send Your Robot Instead
Context: WANT!!!!! God as my witness, I’ll never go into the office again…
Synopsis: “It’s the next best thing to being there.” That old chestnut may actually be about to come true. Can’t be in two places at once? Not anymore. Take a dash of personal telepresence, throw in a healthy dose of robotics, add a pinch of not getting creeped out by disembodied heads rolling through your office and viola! The next best thing to being there indeed.
Best Bit: ???In Seneca, N.Y., and Knox City, Texas, an elementary and a high school student are each using Vgo robots to attend classes and socialize with friends. Both suffer from rare diseases that prevent them from leaving their homes.???

There’s more than one way to skin a cat. And even more ways to build a UI. Gross but true.

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Title: When Should We Use App, Responsive and Mobile Design?
Context: So many platforms and so little time to design for all of them. What’s the best approach?
Synopsis: The world is going mobile. That’s great but what does that mean for UI development? Do you approach mobile first as your primary use case? Do you make everything custom and target specific applications to specific platforms? Or do you do take the path of least resistance and go the responsive route? Surely you already knew the answer would be: it depends. One needs to weigh all of the user, business and development considerations against the range of flexibility each option affords you. And just to overcomplicate matters, as HTML 5 adoption becomes standard on most platforms and creates a viable ??? and robust ??? alternative to native code, does all of this multi-platform hand-wringing cease to matter? Who knows? Well I do, but I’m not feeling very “responsive” right now. (See what I did there?)
Best Bit: ???It is obvious if you are limited to one option to choose from all of the above; it is to make your main site utilize Responsive Web Design.???