CATALOGING THE ART AND SCIENCE OF USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN
Title: Designing with the Elements of Play Context: User experience is a game and whomever leaves with the most points wins. Synopsis: Work can’t possibly be fun, right? Play isn’t productive, correct? Wrong on both counts. The fact that it … Continued
Your amazing, user-centric, slick, game-changing UI don’t matter a damn if it never ships. via flickr.com
Title: How Honest Should Smart Devices Be? Context: What should your “smart device” say when you ask it if those jeans make you look fat? Synopsis: Honesty is in reality, a gray area. To understand how people truly interact one … Continued
Title: Delivering the Speech of Your Life Context: Sure you could just try to imagine your audience naked. If you’re some kind of pervert. Synopsis: You need to be able to convince people that your ideas are sound and worth … Continued
The world’s most typical person is not typically who you’d expect. via youtube.com
Have 4:16 to spare? If you don’t then this video is most assuredly for you. via youtube.com
Title: UX is 90% Desirability Context: The word every UX designer wants to hear from their customers? “WANT!” Synopsis: Want and need are technically 2 different things. Traditionally things that you “want” are objects that you desire because you believe … Continued
Never let an inability to draw prevent you from drawing something cool. via youtube.com
Title: Failure: The Secret to Success Context: Success does not happen without failure. Period. Synopsis: If you can’t learn from your mistakes, you can’t learn. If you are afraid of making mistakes, you can’t succeed. One of the better corporate … Continued
Title: Passive magic, design of delightful experience Context: Filling your end users with delight is rarely easy, but always rewarded. Synopsis: This is basically just a collection of really cool (read: delightful) user experiences. From hardware to software, and all … Continued
Most faucets suck. But the particular brand of cruelty exercised by hotel interior designers is particularly viscous. via: Parts unknown
Title: Thomas Jefferson and preparing for meetings Context: Never bring a rough concept to a finished design fight. Synopsis: What the hell does Thomas Jefferson have to do with user experience? Well, not much actually. But this story isn’t about … Continued
User research is hard. via flickr.com
Awesome design tools are awesome. via cohdoo.com
Title: How to Use the Power of Storytelling to Get What You Want and Need. Context: There are eight million stories in the UX world; here’s one of them. Synopsis: Let me tell you a story… Just reading that intro … Continued