CATALOGING THE ART AND SCIENCE OF USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN
Title: Bose Headphones and the Internet of Broken Things Context: All things must come to an end. But does the end really have to come so damn quickly? Synopsis: As technology rapidly replaces the mechanical in our increasingly noisy lives, … Continued
When good people do bad things, bad design can help them change behavior and do better things. via risd.edu
Title: Breaking up with the User in User Experience Strategy? Context: There are only two types of people who have “users” for clients; us, and drug dealers. Synopsis: Semantics can be a helluva thing. You design stuff, but do you … Continued
Title: Design isn’t just for consumer goods, your enterprise software needs it too Context: The business of enterprise software used to be business, but it is rapidly becoming design. Synopsis: Keen IO CEO talks about the business critical impact design … Continued
Title: The Next UX Revolution: Transforming Stodgy Enterprise Applications Into Engaging Experiences Context: Most business software is complete crap. Here’s how to fix that. Synopsis: Your first day of work. You are handed a laptop preloaded with a bunch of … Continued
Title: Let’s talk about margins Context: The guy talks about margins, but what he’s really referring to is life itself. Synopsis: There are an infinite number of details in everything you make. Design is the practice of figuring out which … Continued
Title: Making Opinionated Software Context: You can’t please all of the people all of the time, as every software designer is more than aware. Synopsis: One of the unspoken skills any software designer must have is a skin of elephant … Continued
Title: Learning More About Creativity And Innovation From LEGO Context: You can design. And you can innovate. But if you don’t link these processes to business outcomes you’re just wasting everyone’s time. Synopsis: See those guys over there? They design … Continued
Title: UX IRL: Syncing the Online and Offline Experience Context: Just because you use something online doesn’t mean you still don’t live in the offline world. Synopsis: Ah, the digital world. Cyberspace. Online communities. We love to locopomorphicize our online … Continued
Title: How Design Thinking Transformed Airbnb from a Failing Startup to a Billion Dollar Business Context: The key word in central phrase is actually “thinking”, not “design”. Synopsis: There are blueprints for success that, if followed, inevitably lead to the … Continued
Title: Icon Usability Context: Nobody knows what your icon means. It’s just science. Synopsis: After weeks of struggle, you finally solved it. You came up with an icon to represent some abstract concept in your navigation schema, that you are … Continued
Title: The Rise of the UX Torturer Context: Why ask users to pay for a better user experience when it’s easier to design one so bad they’ll be willing to pay you to not have to deal with it? Synopsis: … Continued
Title: Dropbox’s Head of Design on the Dawn of Personalized Products Context: You can dictate the final destination, as long as you allow the user to help pick the route. Synopsis: Users—for some unfathomable reason—appear to have minds of their … Continued
Animated breeze through some core design principles. Learn as much as is humanly possible about design in less than a minute through the power of animation. via vimeo.com
Title: Bridging the Physical-Digital Divide: For UX Context: It’s the “internet of things” not the “internet of software”. Synopsis: Crappy and meaningless software (or the more colloquial: “apps”) are fine. Really they are. They cost almost nothing to make, you … Continued