Good experiences are invisible and hardly ever seen. Bad experiences scream out at us and are impossible to ignore.

Web Do’s and Don’ts - Great resource for patterns and anti-patterns.

You Are Not A Designer If – It would be very interesting to see a follow up to this called ‘You Are A Designer If’.

Boxes and Arrows Interactions 09 Recap -  Whitney Hess summarizes all the craziness that occurred at this years Interactions 09 conference. Continue reading →

It is standard for a User Experience Designer to have a passion for the people, but occasionally they forget about the business that serves them. Christina Wodtke (twitter) gave the attendees of the IA Summit a reminder of why keeping the business in mind is important for any design project. The following are my tweets from her session:

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If there was a best of show award given at the IA Summit, Fred Beecher’s (twitter) track on prototyping would be one of the nominees. Jonathan Knoll (twitter) summed it up best by stating ‘@fred_beecher’s prototyping session is turning into the most directly educational & practical I’ve seen in a long time.’ Below are my tweets from the presentation:

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Cindy Chastain (twitter) started an amazing conversation with her presentation at this years IA Summit in Memphis. It is common practice for authors and playwrights to use themes when creating a new story. Cindy, through real world practice, has discovered that this same concept can be applied to designing a user experience. The following are my tweets from this session:

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This was one of my favorite sessions from this years IA Summit. Dan Brown (twitter) delivered a very thorough and practical guide on how to develop and use design rules for a project. The following are my tweets from the session:

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Andrew Hilton (on twitter) gave us an amazing presentation about how to view context in the digital space. The presentation was entertaining and conveyed a lot of good information. The following are my tweets from the session.

Vegas is setting up a program that will watch everyone while you spend money, give a WOW factor, and transcribe what you are buying.

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The opening keynote at this years IA Summit down in Memphis, TN was given by Micheal Welch. The following are my tweets from the session:

His research began from his work in Papua New Guinea. Studied for a full two years in the area.

He used a sleeping bag he called his ‘Little America’ to isolate himself from all the bugs.

That’s awesome, he wrestled around with his own right arm.

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