#ux iota: Online shopping hates you.
Don’t make it hard for your customers to give you their money. Idiot. via youtube.com
You need a license to drive a car but any damn fool is allowed to create iconography.
Title: 9 Rules to Make Your Icons Clear and Intuitive Context: Put down the pirated copy of Photoshop and step away from the iconography. Synopsis: Icons are easy. All you need to do is to make a little picture of … Continued
Strong UX leadership is great organizational UX. How meta is that?
Title: On UX Leadership Context: Your organization’s user experience teams are only as effective as the people who lead them. Synopsis: Probably the biggest gap in most organizations’ user experience teams is quality leadership. Talent can exist in spades. Research, … Continued
#ux iota: Senseless drawing bot draws senselessly.
The artistic process remains a mystery. Or a series of randomized variables and algorithms for our robotic friends. via vimeo.com
The cubicles and bland decor will continue until motivation around here improves.
Title: What Good Design Can Teach Us About Motivation Context: How’s that cubicle in the room with gray walls helping your creativity? Synopsis: Is your work environment enhancing your creativity? For most people the answer is sadly, “no”. The old … Continued
If a tree is designed in the forest, does it still have a good user experience?
Title: The Invisible Side of Design Context: Design should never be about the designer. It is always about the user. Synopsis: The best designs do not even exist for users. Which is exactly why it is so damn hard to … Continued
Of all the “Top 10 List” blog posts about UX design, this one is definitely #3
Title: The 10 principles of interaction design Context: When it comes to great user experience in blog posts, it is tough to beat a top 10 list. Synopsis: Who doesn’t love reducing their chosen calling to a list of 10 … Continued
“Once upon a time I made something. I want money. The End.” Now buy my product.
Title: Why We Need Storytellers at the Heart of Product Development Context: There are not enough good storytellers in the world. And certainly not in the business world. Synopsis: It was a dark and stormy night…Well, not really. Or maybe … Continued
#ux iota: My advice for designers? Check out this kick-ass “Advice for designers” infographic.
2 things designers are never short on: advice and ability to ignore advice. via 52-infographics.blogspot.com
So you’re a user experience designer? That’s nice…So what exactly do you do again?
Title: 10 Most Common Misconceptions About User Experience Design Context: There’s only 10?!?! Synopsis: I once tried to explain to my parents what my job is. Suffice it to say that when they are now asked what their eldest son … Continued
The user experience of user experience teams.
Title: Designing the Right Team for UX : An Art and a Science Context: Hey! I’m on a user experience team! What a coincidence! Synopsis: There’s more to designing a good user experience than just putting a bunch of designers … Continued
Which came first? The UX or the UI?
Title: UX and UI, Chicken and Egg Context: Wait for the next installment, when we discover that the reason the chicken crossed the road was to refactor its UI. Synopsis: While this short video includes some questionable Latin translations it … Continued
#ux iota: The definitive guide to definitive guidelines on UX design across platforms, devices and systems.
Designing across all of the different platforms is hard. Guidelines make it easy(er). via usabilitygeek.com
Do as I sketch, not as I say.
Title: Why We Sketch Context: A picture is worth a thousand words which should be reason enough to sharpen your sketching pencils. Synopsis: I knew an elementary school teacher once who told me “The problem with adults is that we … Continued
I’m a designer, he’s a designer, she’s a designer, wouldn’t you like to be a designer too?
Title: Can Anybody Be a Designer? Context: They call us designers, which is why we get paid the big bucks.* But can anyone really do what we do? Synopsis: “Oh, you’re a designer? So you like draw stuff, right?” Most … Continued