CATALOGING THE ART AND SCIENCE OF USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN
Title: Terry Border at Gel 2008 Context: The things that we make are the stories we tell. However, nobody ever said that those stories need to be boring ones. Synopsis: If you’ve never seen Terry Border’s art you are missing … Continued
Sketchnotes make understanding everything easier whether you were there in person or not. via yahnyinlondon.com
Title: No Innovator’s Dilemma Here: In Praise of Failure Context: If success was easy, everyone would have invented a better vacuum cleaner that doesn’t suck by now. Wait. What? Synopsis: James Dyson, inventor extraordinaire, talks about the inextricable link between … Continued
Title: When is Learnability More Important than Usability? Context: Maybe it’s time we stop coddling our users at every turn and give them some credit for being able to learn new systems. Synopsis: Let’s get this out of the way … Continued
Title: The Stories We Construct Context: Telling a great story is hard. Constructing it is even harder. Synopsis: Very attractive and breezy presentation by the maker of Mental Notes brainstorming cards (http://getmentalnotes.com/) that tries to describe the process we – … Continued
Title: The fall and rise of user experience Context: Put some coffee on and sit back for this epic analysis of the past, present and future of the UX profession. Synopsis: In many ways UX is a victim of its … Continued
Title: Motion and The Clay of Interaction Design Context: Let your fingers do the walking. And the flipping. And the scrolling. And the resizing. And the… Synopsis: One thing that these emerging NUI (natural user interfaces) ask of UX designers … Continued
Never forget from whence we came. via youtube.com
Forget about the internet of everything, are you ready for the social network of everything? via youtube.com
The Triangle of Despair. Many an hour has been wasted in those treacherous seas mateys. via: Parts unknown
Title: The Astounding World of the Future Context: You can’t predict the future, you can only make it. And according to this vision, we’ve certainly made “something” of our future… Synopsis: Ever see one of those olde tyme newsreels that … Continued
Title: The Virtual Designer Context: All glory is fleeting. Digital designs are lucky to be a fraction of that. Synopsis: We rarely work on anything concrete. Our designs are virtual, ethereal and, arguably, don’t even really exist at all. Yet … Continued
Nobody gets a design right the first time. Nobody. Not even him. via gocomics.com
Title: Atoms + Bits = the neue Craft, A lecture by John Maeda Context: A whistle-stop tour of the history of art and design within digital media and what it means for our collective future curated by one of the … Continued
Title: Why User Experience Cannot Be Designed Context: We can take lots of things into account when designing UX, except the most important part: the user. Synopsis: Sure we talk about “user centered design”, but what does that really mean? … Continued