CATALOGING THE ART AND SCIENCE OF USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN
Title: 5 Lessons From The Best Interaction Designs Of 2011 Context: What did we learn about interaction design trends in 2011? Read on to find out. Synopsis: Ah, the end of year list. What a great user experience. Reducing the … Continued
Being creative isn’t the problem. Staying creative is. via vimeo.com
Behold! The world’s fastest web designer. via youtube.com
Title: The Good, Bad, The Creative (Thesis Documentary) Context: A design student interviews a bunch of people in a quest to figure out what makes good – or bad – design. Synopsis: Sometimes I forget how interesting college was. Instead … Continued
Title: Building Industrial Strength User Experience Context: It’s probably around 10% of your budget, but you might want to get more than 10% of your people on board with it. Synopsis: So the conventional wisdom for building an effective user … Continued
Teaching kids to take notes in school would be so much more effective if we taught them to take sketchnotes instead. via vimeo.com
The art of paper prototyping. Lo fidelity, high reward. via youtube.com
As NUIs allow us to shed the traditional controls of GUI interaction models, what informs the arrangement and design of the next generation of software? How about the data itself? via readwrite.com
Title: Why being wrong is good for you Context: Show me a person who is never wrong, and I’ll show you someone who will bore the crap out of you. Synopsis: Nobody likes being wrong because, by definition, that means … Continued
If you can’t sell an idea don’t be surprised when no one wants to buy it. via youtube.com
Title: Nigel Marsh: How to make work-life balance work Context: If your job is the most important thing in your life, you need to seriously reexamine your life. Synopsis: We work hard. And we should be proud of that. We … Continued
Language is still one of the most emotive parts of user experience design. Use it wisely. via youtube.com
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
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
Never forget from whence we came. via youtube.com