The UK Government Digital Service (GDS) has published some of their Design Principles and examples of how they are being used in government. Start with needs Do less Design with data …
Spacially Aware Interactions & Devices
Ishac Betran has shared a blog post and video of the idea for Spacially aware interactions on his blog. spatial |ˈspeɪʃ(ə)l| (also spacial) Adjective Relating to space: the spatial distribution …
Innovating in the real world from IDEO’s Diego Rodriguez
Principles for innovating in the real world according to IDEO’s Diego Rodriguez should start with foundational approaches designed to help you make innovations happen. http://thenextweb.com/dd/2011/05/08/21-principles-for-innovating-in-the-real-world-from-ideos-diego-rodriguez Experience the world instead of …
Service & Customer Experience Maps from Mel Edwards
A brilliant blog post by Mel Edwards on Service & Experience Maps.
What’s a customer experience map? It’s a graphical representation of the service journey of a customer.
Favourite UX & Technology Blogs (2010)
A great UX Matters article of favourite User Experience & Technology blogs by fellow experts & writers.
Developing Design Principles by Luke Wroblewski
Following Luke Wroblewski’s 2009 Parti & The Design Sandwich talk from Interaction09 in Vancouver, he has written a summary on how to go about developing Design Principles. Update: Dave Malouf …
Carolyn Snyder on Paper Prototyping in the design process
An interview by UIE’s Ashley McKee with Carolyn Snyder, the author of the definitive 2003 book, Paper Prototyping. It’s an interesting read and anyone new to paper prototyping will find …
An interview with Larry Cornett, Yahoo Director of User Experience Design
I do like the concept that you have with the information scent, the semantic mapping. I think it definitely ties into the mental model that a user has when they …
A quote from Bill Moggridge’s book Designing Interactions
Artists and designers are trained to use the language of explicit meanings to a rich communicative element over and above direct functional communication. If we only design with the function …
Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences
Peter Merholz posted an interesting dicussion the other day on the classification of systems becoming invisible through use. Bowker and Star showed that classification systems become invisible through use, but …
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web – 3rd Edition
Peter Morville and Louis Rosenfeld have signed with O’Reilly to write the 3rd edition of their book, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web.
Barry Schwartz and The Paradox of Choice
Mark Hurst has written an informative summary of his conversation with Barry Schwartz, author of The Paradox of Choice, a new book which discusses excessive choice, choice overload, anxiety, and …
What is Fitts law? and its relation to HCI
Here is a PDF document based on the research by Shumin Zhai, an IBM Research Staff Member, which extends the law developed by Fitts in 1954. Fitts Law is a …
Interaction Design by David Lu
There are some great Interface and Interaction Design works in David Lu’s portfolio website. Some of his physical interactive projects include, a Phone Dial Web browser, visualization work such as …
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).