The building of better user experiences is possibly one of the most important elements when designing or considering the design of any form of interface or usable product. Importantly, experience …
Recollection of online and offline reading
Jason Kottke has posted an interesting blog entry about recollection of online and offline reading. He points out that he finds it easier to recollect things if it is in …
Peterme on Usability does not equal User Experience
Peter Merholz from Adaptive Path, has written an interesting blog entry with great user comments titled, Usability != User Experience. The blog looks at the definition of what exactly is …
Information Architecture and Findability
I came across this really interesting 2002 article by Peter Morville titled, The Age of Findability, which comments on the importance of information delivery and result relevance in information design. …
IBM Developer Works asks users to test their new website
IBM Developer Works are previewing their new prototype website and are asking users to look at their upcoming site and comment on their structure, navigation and experience. They have listed …
National Driving Test results
I’m not certain on how many people took part in last Wednesdays National Driving test, but I got asked today about my score… hehe I think I’m a good driver! …
The Image of Experience
I came across this really great article by Judy McFarland titled, The image of experience which comments on the use of Text and Imagery in design. Here is an excerpt, …
Designers and their communicative process
Luke Wroblewski, guest writer this month in Signal Vs. Noise and author of the usability book Site-seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability posts a few links also on a …
Are designers born or made?
Christina Wodtke has posted a great article in Elegant Hack titled, Are designers born or made? which discusses the topic of whether; application of process, combination of talent and training …
Identified trends from the CHI 2003 conference
Here is a nice summary by SAP Design Guild of the new and old trends identified from CHI 2003 New Horizons Conference held in Florida, US in May. Some identified …
Five Lessons learnt from DUX conference
Boxes and Arrows posts a summary of Five Lessons learnt from the recent Designing for User Experiences conference (DUX) held in San Francisco, June 6-8. The article has been written …
100 years from first Flight
This coming December 17th will be the 100 year anniversary since Orville Wright (one of the famous Wright brothers) flew 120 feet (36.5m) in 12 seconds to record the first …
User Experience Conference Chicago and London
Here are the dates, summary and list of speakers for the User Experience 2003 conference which is happening in Chicago (Sept 21-25) and London (Oct 6-10).
User Experience in a budget-conscious climate
There is a great article in New Architect by Jesse James Garrett titled All those Opposed: Making the case for user experience in a budget-conscious climate. The article comments on …
GEL Conference summary
Mark Hurst, the founder of GoodExperience.com has uploaded a summary of the first GEL (Good Experience Live) Conference that was held on Friday May 2, 2003 at the New-York Historical …