CATALOGING THE ART AND SCIENCE OF USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN
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: Usability in Icons Context: The successful icon is in the details. Synopsis: How should we choose which icon to use for representing a user action? Who cares, right? Icon-shmicon. Put a little picture up there and eventually after the … 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
Your amazing, user-centric, slick, game-changing UI don’t matter a damn if it never ships. via flickr.com
Title: Little Big Details Context: Not only is the devil in the details, so is the elegance. Synopsis: Wonderful Tumblr site that showcases UI and interaction designs to be found in web, software, mobile, iconography – what have you – … Continued
Title: The Dark Side Of Usability Context: Obi Wan was right; the Dark Side is an easy trap to fall into. Be strong young UX Jedis. Synopsis: Socrates thought that writing would rob people of their ability to remember things. … Continued