10 UI Design Patterns You Should Be Paying Attention To – Great additions to your design pattern library. Smashing Magazine never disappoints.
Four Must Read Pieces on UX Matter – You can never have too much reference material.
Visual Decision Making – Investigation on the importance of visuals and how they encourage people to engage at a deeper levels.
Web Design From The Gut – Web design has a process that’s for sure, but so much still just comes from the gut.
40 Helpful Resource on User Interface Design Patterns – Smashing Magazine serves up this great collection of all the patterns you will ever need.
Feedback. The Creavity Killer – Very nice 12 step program for those that find themselves always on the defensive with their creatations.
This is a guest post by Carol Righi who is waiting patiently for some Card Sort data to come in. Enjoy!
Writing microcopy – It doesn’t take a memoir in order to help your users get the job done.
What is interaction? – I love a great ‘Defining the damn thing..’ article, and this is one of the best I have read recently.
12 Emerging best practices for adding UX work to an agile environment - Are you a User Experience Designer, do you work in an Agile Development Environment? This is a great article that can help you make your professional life easier.
During my college years I worked as a Lab Tech at Lenscrafters. Five days a week I would find myself working behind a large plexiglas window helping other people see. This large window is a trademark of all Lenscrafters stores as it allows customers to watch their new eye wear get made, but it is easy to forget that that they are also able to watch you. I can’t recall how many times I looked up and saw a customer looking at me weird due to my behavior. Luckily, most of the time it was harmless laughs and snickers, but occasionally I would get a dirty look.
How to Create A Style Guide With Ease – Great tips on how to great a style guide that is both thorough and understandable.
Oldie but goodie: When I’m asked to design a bridge … – Dave Malouf offers some great starter points for attempting the Mozilla Design Challenge.
As technology becomes more interactive and personable, people will begin to establish deeper and more meaningful relationships with it. This is a key aspect that Microsoft wanted to get across during their announcement of Project Natal given during E3 last week. The demo of ‘Milo’ given by Lionhead Studio’s showcases this new world in relationships with the interactions between a player and the computerized child Milo. No longer are you required to push joysticks and mash buttons to interact with a character. You directly address them, and based on the relationship you have established with the character, your interaction is ‘unique’.
Twitter’s Most Moronic Change: Removing @ Reply Settings – Twitter community outrage on recent change to their @ Reply system.
About Challenges and Authentic Experiences: An Interview with Bill DeRouchey – Great interview looking at the history of Interaction Design, and where the profession is going. At the end of the interview is a nice piece of advice for young UX Designers.
You Can’t NOT Afford Good User Experience - Great resource for anyone looking for ammo to sell UX internally. Stated so simply it is amazing that some people still don’t get it.
Do you consider your interactions on sites like Facebook and Twitter to be computing? Are you working with someone in tandem in order to accomplish a task ? Or are you just chatting about last weekends BBQ and how burnt the hot dogs were? These interactions have very different contexts, which fundamentally mean different things to people.
