CATALOGING THE ART AND SCIENCE OF USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN
Title: Six Factors for Highly Unsuccessful Products Context: Light 3 minute video to help you wind up your week with a smile. A very knowing, wry, been-there-done-that smile… Synopsis: From the site: “At the FailCon 2010 conference in San Francisco, … Continued
Title: Playing in the Sandbox: The Role of Experimentation in Designing Context: This is one of my favorite posts that I’ve read in a long time. Please, please, please find a few minutes to read. It explains my work philosophy … Continued
Title: Future Shock: Nokia Research Touts 5 Innovative Mobile Interfaces Context: Sometimes the hard part is just telling a convincing story. Synopsis: Even though it’s still the most popular phone maker in the world Nokia doesn’t get the respect of … Continued
Title: 1st Interaction Design Competition; Building the Internet of Things Context: International design competition that looks really cool. Plus who wouldn’t want to win a scholarship to go back to school? In Barcelona?!?! Synopsis: I would encourage anyone that is … Continued
Title: How to Turn the Job You Have Into the Job You Want Context: If you don’t like the game, change the rules. Synopsis: Happy Friday all. Some food for thought. Life is what you make of it. Enjoy the … Continued
Title: The Mother of All Demos Context: Giving a presentation that 42 years later is still considered one of the greatest demos of all time is quite a feat. He must have got all the chicks. Synopsis: The mouse, interactive … Continued
Title: Persona Context: Personas not as abstractions but as real people. Beautiful. But the guy with the knife and hand grenade is a bit freaky if you ask me. Synopsis: We create personas to help us put the user at … Continued
Title: Clive Thompson on the Power of Visual Thinking Context: Shut up* and draw. You’ll make more sense. *Not meant pejoratively. Synopsis: As designers we are particularly good at thinking visually. When working with people who are not so “artistically” … Continued
Title: UX Quotes, Useful quotes on User Experience AND Quotes from the User Context: If you’re anything like me, you’re in a horrible mood today and have no patience for anyone’s lip. So you won’t get none from me. Synopsis: … Continued
Title: Have you ever tried to “change” your spouse? Context: I tried to change my spouse once but the resulting hospital stay was not worth it. Synopsis: We are in the behavior change business. People in the product building business … Continued
Title: Intel doesn’t design actual products Context: Genevieve Bell, head of Intel’s Interaction and Experience Research Lab wants to make more than just chips. Mmmmmm…Chips… Synopsis: How will Intel expand beyond their core business of making processors? By making compelling … Continued
Title: Aristotle’s Storytelling Framework for Interactive Products Context: Remember that time in college that you read of Aristotle’s “Poetics”? Yeah me neither. But here is a pretty good – and contextually relevant – crash course for you. Synopsis: Just about … Continued
Title: WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM Context: Hand drawn, stream of consciousness, 4 minute video answers an age old question. Synopsis: Good ideas are rarely “Eureka!” moments. Much more important are the connections that we make and our ability to … Continued
Title: Realistic expectations for enterprise user experience Context: Business owners, IT and UX: can’t we all just get along? Synopsis: Adobe Enterprise UX dude talks about how to get the user back at the center of enterprise product development. Not … Continued
Title: Realism in UI Design Context: How realistic should that icon look? Synopsis: Many UI elements are abstractions of familiar concepts that allow users to project their own context on while remaining universal enough to be functional across individuals, demographics … Continued