CATALOGING THE ART AND SCIENCE OF USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN
Title: Winning a User Experience Debate Context: Designers are from Mars and everyone else is from Venus. But the part of Venus that constantly disagrees with people from Mars. Synopsis: I know this almost never happens, but what should we … Continued
Title: How Print Design is the Future of Interaction Context: The need to move beyond outdated real-world UI metaphors requires us to look towards print design for salvation. Wait…What?!?! Synopsis: Why oh why can’t we leave behind stylized interface design … Continued
Title: Study Shows Kids Are Predicting the Future of Technology Context: From the minds that brought you the runaway popularity of Justin Bieber comes the future of technology… Synopsis: Oh kids today! Acting all ‘cool’ with their ‘groovy’ rap music … Continued
Title: Engineers vs. Designers Context: I’ve got nothing against engineers. Some of my best friends are engineers. Synopsis: There is a war in most companies. A war between transitions and speed. A battle between animation and performance. These skirmishes take … Continued
Title: “90% of your users are idiots” Context: It’s not really that 90% of your users are idiots, it’s that’s just how they prefer to be treated. Synopsis: We make decisions all the time based on how we think our … Continued
Sometimes a bad user experience is bad for everybody. via mashable.com
Title: How to Create Compelling Brand Experiences Context: Features? So what. Experiences? Yes please. Synopsis: Many companies, agencies and consultants spend hour upon hour with customers asking them what new features they want to see in the products they use. … Continued
Being creative isn’t the problem. Staying creative is. via vimeo.com
Behold! The world’s fastest web designer. via youtube.com
The art of the business presentation. And not the dogs playing poker kind of art either. via slideshare.net
Title: The Good, Bad, The Creative (Thesis Documentary) Context: A design student interviews a bunch of people in a quest to figure out what makes good – or bad – design. Synopsis: Sometimes I forget how interesting college was. Instead … Continued
A bare bones, browser based tool that uses JavaScript and ASCII text to build basic wireframes. Short, sweet, simple and clean. _____ _____ _____ _____ __ _ /\ / ____|/ ____|_ _|_ _|/ _| | / \ | (___ | … Continued
Title: Developing a UX Practice of Practicing Context: There is more than one way to improve your user experience skills. Actually no there isn’t. Get to practicing. Synopsis: Everyone who is really, really good at what they do practices. But … Continued
Title: The Psychologist’s View of UX Design Context: A head shrink tells you what’s going on in the heads of people using the devices we are trying to shrink. Synopsis: User experience designers and psychologists share a fascination with the … Continued
Title: Creating a Marketing Strategy for Your UX Skills Context: In order to effectively influence other people’s perception of us we must be conscious of how we present ourselves to the world. Synopsis: What are your strengths as a user … Continued