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Share your findings regarding usability, UX, interaction and UI design. Simple posting rules: a new relevant article + a pic + a summary (http://ff.im/1Zogb)
Alexey Ivanov
8 Reasons Why You Should Do Prototyping - Flair Builder - http://www.flairbuilder.com/8-reaso...
Cristian Pascu comes up with 8 reasons why interactive prototyping helps. It's defenitely not something you didn't know before, yet a good start to perceive someone to include interactive prototyping in the design process. - Alexey Ivanov from Bookmarklet
Juras Vetrau
UI Controls for Rich Applications Flipbook (PDF) - http://designingwebinterfaces.com/rich_ui...
UI Controls for Rich Applications Flipbook (PDF)
Here's a print-ready flipbook that includes a bunch of modern RIA patterns. It can be used as an illustrated pattern catalog or cut to create UI postcards. Direct download link — http://www.theresaneil.com/files... (PDF, 2.5 Mb). - Juras Vetrau from Bookmarklet
Olga Safonova
Attempt at a generic model for user experience at CreunaBlog - http://blog.creuna.dk/2009...
Attempt at a generic model for user experience at CreunaBlog
Modified Morville's UX model - with strategic (context) and tactical (execution) axes added. User experience is not (only) about usability, information architecture or visual design as we traditionally see it. User experience only happens when great design is executed in the right way and for the right reason. Because user experience will not happen, until the design is in fact used by a user. - Olga Safonova
Alexey Ivanov
The Future of Interface Design – UX Booth - http://www.uxbooth.com/blog...
The Future of Interface Design – UX Booth - http://www.uxbooth.com/blog/the-future-of-interface-design/
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UXBooth comes up with a solid review of prospective user interfaces to come in our every day life within a couple of years. - Alexey Ivanov
Alexey Ivanov
Juice's Simple Font Framework — Juice Analytics - http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing...
Juice's Simple Font Framework — Juice Analytics
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Juice Analytics offers a simple framework for effective use of fonts in your dashboard. With a few simple decisions, you can ensure that the text on the dashboard will both look good and communicate effectively. - Alexey Ivanov from Bookmarklet
Juras Vetrau
Case Study — Co-authoring (i.e. Simultaneous Editing) in Word 2010 - http://blogs.msdn.com/microso...
Case Study — Co-authoring (i.e. Simultaneous Editing) in Word 2010
A small but interesting case study from MS Office 2010 design team. The story tells about integration of a new complicated feature (collaboration) into familiar process (rich document editing) without breaking old one. One of most interesting parts is a set of principles they've set during this process. - Juras Vetrau from Bookmarklet
The team tells about their UX research tools and techniques — http://blogs.technet.com/office2.... - Juras Vetrau
How the team works with the product usage statistics — http://blogs.technet.com/office2.... - Juras Vetrau
Juras Vetrau
Mockingbird — Wireframes on the fly - http://gomockingbird.com/
Mockingbird — Wireframes on the fly
Mockingbird is an online tool that makes it easy for you to create, link together, preview, and share mockups of your website or application. It looks pretty much the same as Balsamiq. - Juras Vetrau from Bookmarklet
Juras Vetrau
When Security Gets in the Way by Don Norman - http://interactions.acm.org/content...
When Security Gets in the Way by Don Norman
A great article from Don Norman on "usability vs security" topic. He talks about right and wrong examples and processes of security integration. One of most interesting things is his parallel with wrong UX design process. - Juras Vetrau from Bookmarklet
Sachendra
Social Interaction Design... considering unseen elements of system like social relationships, power dynamics, cultural rules http://www.core77.com/blog...
Many tools have pleasant, user-friendly interfaces and take advantage of well-designed physical devices (i.e., they're easy to use from a human-computer-interaction perspective). But it's in the sociological and anthropological arenas where they run into trouble: most social software tools are clumsy and ineffective at smoothly facilitating interpersonal interaction - Sachendra
A. Khmelevsky™
"HTC says apps, widgets and web pages would be represented by virtual book pages, making it intuitive for users to browse and organize their widgets. The interface would be flexible enough for carriers and service providers to add custom widgets, services and applications simply as additional pages in a book." - A. Khmelevsky™
Juras Vetrau
I've started a UX list at Twitter to put together feeds from UX practioneers, companies, events, magazines etc. It would be great if you suggest users/companies that should be added to this list. - Juras Vetrau from Bookmarklet
Juras Vetrau
Multi-Touch Systems that I Have Known and Loved - http://billbuxton.com/multito...
Multi-Touch Systems that I Have Known and Loved
Multi-Touch Systems that I Have Known and Loved
Bill Buxton from Microsoft Research has put together a history of multi-touch interfaces. He also talks about principles and limitations of these interfaces. Its a live document — Bill expands it with new sections since 2007. - Juras Vetrau from Bookmarklet
A brief history of gestural interfaces — http://creativity-online.com/news.... - Juras Vetrau
Juras Vetrau
Build a Promotional Website Wireframe in Adobe Fireworks - http://vector.tutsplus.com/tutoria...
A great tutorial from Sean Hodge in which he tells about website modeling & design process in Fireworks. He shows the process in tiniest details — from sketches to wireframes to design and doesn't forgets about tips & tricks. - Juras Vetrau from Bookmarklet
Juras Vetrau
IxDA Interaction 09 — Post Conference Articles - http://blog.semanticfoundry.com/2009...
IxDA Interaction 09 — Post Conference Articles
Will Evans has put together a list of articles that cover interaction09 conference held February 5-8 in Vancouver. Here's a bunch of workbooks, videos, presentations and other reports. - Juras Vetrau from Bookmarklet
nice! - Alexey Ivanov
@explanent: it would be great if somebody put together same coverages of latest industry events — IA Summit, SXSWi and UX Week. Here's some posts flowing around about the first one, let's try to make a reports collection in another post (I'll start in now). - Juras Vetrau
A nice review from UXMatters — http://www.uxmatters.com/mt.... - Juras Vetrau
A video of Luke Wroblewsky's "Parti & the Design Sandwich" presentation — http://vimeo.com/4420806 - Juras Vetrau
A workbook of Dan Brown's workshop about concept models — http://uxd.forumone.com/archive... (almost the same as his presentation on Interaction 09 (http://www.slideshare.net/brownor...)). - Juras Vetrau
Mark Baskinger on Drawing Ideas and Communicating Interaction — http://vimeo.com/7339214 - Juras Vetrau
Juras Vetrau
Pidoco — The fastest wireframe creation and GUI prototyping tool — https://www.pidoco.com/
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Wireframing, prototyping and usability testing tool that works both on desktop and web browser. It allows you to create wireframes and clickable prototypes the same way Axure and others do. It also allows you to conduct remote usability tests for wireframes and prototypes using VoIP. A review of the application — http://www.90percentofeverything.com/2009... - Juras Vetrau
ЕОХВ — еще одна хренова вайрфреймилка :\ - Taras Brizitsky
Пидока. :) - снегурочка
Juras, you've forgotten to mention the main idea of the service: it integrates the prototyping and remote testing services and includes VoIP and screen capture functionality. - \/\/\/ ...загуголина
it doesn't make coffee… nah. - Taras Brizitsky
@nahrihra: thanks, I've changed description a bit :) - Juras Vetrau
Juras Vetrau
MBTI — A solid framework to sketch ideas - http://www.henkwijnholds.com/mbti-fr...
MBTI — A solid framework to sketch ideas
Henk Wijnholds presents an interesting approach to UX design — you should address your designs to four types of people — competitive, spontaneous, humanistic and methodical as defined by MBTI methodology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...). - Juras Vetrau from Bookmarklet
Sketching paper templates for this framework — http://www.henkwijnholds.com/mbti-sk.... - Juras Vetrau
Maxamad (Amazigh)
It's basically a StackOverflow clone, except for UX/UI. Kinda neat. - Maxamad (Amazigh) from Bookmarklet
An addition to a long list of specialized qna sites: superuser, doctype, stack overflow, and now uxexchange. - TrafficBug
Holy crap is there like a new social platform that I don't know about? I just saw an almost exact site called http://www.photoqna.com - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
If one model works successfully, then it sprouts mushroom clones. StackOverflow's success has inspired many a clone even in non-computing fields like the photoqna thing. - TrafficBug
@See-ming: Have you ever heard of StackOverFlow, SuperUsr, Doctype, ServerFault, OnStartups, and a ton more clones of the original awesome Q&A site; Stackoverflow? Yeah, that's it. - Maxamad (Amazigh)
Juras Vetrau
IDEA 2009 Coverage — Reports, Presentations, Workbooks - http://johnnyholland.org/2009...
IDEA 2009 Coverage — Reports, Presentations, Workbooks
The 4th IDEA conference was held September, 15-16th in Toronto by The Information Architecture Institute. We'll try to put together a coverage of the event in comments to this post — presentations, videos, photos, reports, workbooks etc. Official site of the event — http://ideaconference.org/2009.... - Juras Vetrau from Bookmarklet
A review from UserGlue — http://www.userglue.com/blog... - Juras Vetrau
Olga Safonova
Website information architects try to determine how users categorize, organize and label information on a site. Information architects use a number of methods to determine the best site architecture - Olga Safonova from Bookmarklet
After three iterations of usability testing on one particular business-to-business healthcare website, I noticed something interesting: pages that the in-house SEO professional created did not match the mental models of the primary and secondary target audience. Words such as “fluff,” “propaganda,” and my personal favorite, “what the [expletive],” were used to verbally describe these pages. Furthermore, these same words appeared in test participant comments and category/section labels. - Olga Safonova
Sasha Kovaliov(.com)
Dear readers, we are so excited to show you what we have been up to for the last week! We’ve been working on the Wireframing Toolbox list, in which we have tried to combine all the tools that there are out there available for IAs, UX designers, web developers, etc. Prototyping market is indeed a crowded one, and making the right choice is hard. We’ve heard you and started working on a unified directory of wireframing and prototyping solutions of all sizes and colors. - Sasha Kovaliov(.com) from Bookmarklet
coutline
http://coutline.com - design website prototypes and documentation.
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Juras Vetrau
The User Experience Team Kit — How to hire a UX Team & incorporate UCD methods into your Software Development Lifecycle Process (PDF, Presentation by Paul Sherman) — http://shermanux.com/Files...
As Paul Sherman says, "This document has been created as a reference for senior management in product groups who wish to learn more about incorporating user centered design practices into product ideation, design, and development processes. The terms ‘user experience’ and ‘user-centered design’ are used interchangeably in this document. The four main sections of this document provide the following information: 1) An overview of user centered design methods and techniques, and how they are incorporated into UX teams’ processes 2) A description of how the team fits into the development lifecycle. 3) A detailed breakdown of what it costs to implement and UX/UCD team in a single product organization. 4) The UX team engagement mode – that is, what services the team provides, to whom, and when. 5) Descriptions of the difficulties typically encountered when a product organization decides to build a UX team. 6) A reference section that provides descriptions of and access to user centered design tools and templates, deliverable samples, and recommended readings." - Juras Vetrau
Juras Vetrau
Eyetracking — Is It Worth It? - http://new.uxmatters.com/mt...
Eyetracking — Is It Worth It?
A great overview article about eye-tracking from Jim Ross. As the author says, "It is easy to get excited about eyetracking. Seeing where people look while using your Web site, Web application, or software product sounds like an opportunity to get amazing insights into their user experience. But eyetracking is expensive and requires extra effort and specialized knowledge. The heat maps and other visualizations certainly look impressive, but what can you really learn from them? After using eyetracking for the first time, many find that it is not easy to know how to analyze the visualizations and make conclusions from them. Does eyetracking really provide any additional insights you would not have discovered anyway through traditional usability testing? Does the value of eyetracking outweigh its limitations? This article will discuss and answer these questions." - Juras Vetrau from Bookmarklet
Juras Vetrau
Usability Testing versus Expert Reviews - http://new.uxmatters.com/mt...
Usability Testing versus Expert Reviews
Which method of user interface evaluation is the most suitable for your project — usability testing or expert reviews? This is a popular question for a long time. A group of usability practioneers gives some advices on that point. - Juras Vetrau from Bookmarklet
Alexey Ivanov
The Four Most Important CUE Findings » The UX Bookmark - http://www.theuxbookmark.com/2009...
"CUE stands for Comparative Usability Evaluation. In each CUE study, a considerable number of professional usability teams independently and simultaneously evaluate the same website, web application, or Windows program. The Four Most Important CUE Findings have been:" - Alexey Ivanov from Bookmarklet
1. The number of usability problems in a typical website is often so large that you can’t hope to find more than a fraction of the problems in an ordinary usability test. - Alexey Ivanov
2. There’s no measurable difference in the quality of the results produced by usability tests and expert reviews. - Alexey Ivanov
3. Six - or even 15 - test participants are nowhere near enough to find 80% of the usability problems. Six test participants will, however, provide sufficient information to drive a useful iterative development process - Alexey Ivanov
4. Even professional usability evaluators make many mistakes in usability test task construction, problem reporting, and recommendations. - Alexey Ivanov
Some interesting insights about CUE in the A List Apart Article — http://www.alistapart.com/article.... - Juras Vetrau
Juras Vetrau
EuroIA 09 Coverage — Reports, Presentations, Workbooks - http://johnnyholland.org/2009...
EuroIA 09 Coverage — Reports, Presentations, Workbooks
The 5th EuroIA conference was held September, 25-26th in Copenhagen by ASIS&T. We'll try to put together a coverage of the event in comments to this post — presentations, videos, photos, reports, workbooks etc. Official site of the event — http://www.euroia.org/. - Juras Vetrau from Bookmarklet
A review by Jonathan Arnowitz — http://arnoland.blogspot.com/2009.... - Juras Vetrau
A review by James Kelway — http://userpathways.com/2009.... - Juras Vetrau
A review by Cennydd Bowles — http://www.cennydd.co.uk/2009.... - Juras Vetrau
Actually, it was the 5th EuroIA conference, not the 1st :-) You can check the presentations at Slideshare http://www.slideshare.net/event... . - ~ptx
@ptx: sorry, fixed :) - Juras Vetrau
Svetolish
Web Analytics Maturity Model and Critical Success Factors http://blog.immeria.net/2008...
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excellent model from Bill Gassman to start working with clients to analyze web-resources - Svetolish
Svetolish
How To Construct Rational Landing Page Tests http://searchengineland.com/how-to-...
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As author says: here are four kinds of landing page tests that can help you learn about your market. What you test on your pages—and what you learn from those tests—can better inform tactics and strategies throughout your entire marketing program - Svetolish
Juras Vetrau
A Guide to Creating Dashboards People Love to Use (PDF) — http://www.scribd.com/doc...
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Juice Analytics (http://www.juiceanalytics.com/), a company that specializes in data visualization, has started a series of articles on dashboard design. Here's the first part of the article. Other parts will be posted in comments to this post. - Juras Vetrau
3rd part: Information Design — http://media.juiceanalytics.com/downloa... - Juras Vetrau
Juras Vetrau
Modeling User Competency and Expertise - http://tynerblain.com/blog...
Modeling User Competency and Expertise
Tyner Blain proposes a method to define user competence — whether he/she is novice, competent or expert user. - Juras Vetrau from Bookmarklet
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