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I bookmark a lot of pages and sites which I find interesting, inspirational and informative every day! I’d like to share some of them with you here. In general they are about user experience, usability, UCD, accessbility and design. In general, but not always!!

• A List Apart: Articles: The Discipline of Content Strategy
  We, the people who make websites, have been talking for fifteen years about user experience, information architecture, content management systems, coding, metadata, visual design, user research, and all the other disciplines that facilitate our users’ abilities to find and consume content.
• adaptive path » blog » Kim Cullen » “Um…hello? Is this thing on?” Personal Voice in UX Design.
  I recently finished a 6 month project here at AP and after the final presentation one of my teammates asked, “So how would you describe your design style? I don’t know anything about it.” It seemed an odd question given that we had been working together for the last several months and I had just presented extensive visual design deliverables. But when it came down to it those deliverables did not, in fact, reflect anything about my personal design style.
• Thoughts on Interaction Design – Welie.com » Blog Archive » Developing a Strategy and Vision (part 1)
  In my previous post on Strategy and Vision I discussed what they are and what the differences are. But of course what is far more interesting is how to develop a good vision and strategy. If you already have a vision you are in a luxury position and you ‘only’ need to find the best strategy. If you don’t have a vision yet, you have a lot of work ahead of you. However, it is not as bad as it seems because even if you have a vision there is still a lot to do. Let’s assume for now that you already have a vision.
• Larry Constantine on Agile Experience Design | Agile UX
  In part 1, Larry insists on deep philosophical differences and variance in practices… As a UX practitioner and Agile Coach, involved in various agile projects, I unfortunately have to confirm some of his observations:
• YouTube – WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM by Steven Johnson
  One of our most innovative, popular thinkers takes on-in exhilarating style-one of our key questions: Where do good ideas come from?

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I bookmark a lot of pages and sites which I find interesting, inspirational and informative every day! I’d like to share some of them with you here. In general they are about user experience, usability, UCD, accessbility and design. In general, but not always!!

• Patternry | User Interface Design Patterns for Ideas and Inspiration
  We recently completely revamped our site, and at the same time changed its name. For a while our new user interface design pattern resource was called Pattern App until we re-re-named it to Patternry. Patternry will be something more than just a collection of design patterns or a design gallery.
• 5 Leading Airline Booking Forms Tested for Usability | UX Booth
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• Another Useful Blog: What You Always Wanted to Know About Eye Tracking – Part 1: Fixation Detection
  Since the topic of eye tracking keeps drawing people’s attention – it’s a silver bullet for some whereas others see it as a complete waste of resources – I thought a series of posts that focus on the methodological aspects of eye tracking research would be in order. As such, the posts will not focus on particular (usability) studies that have been conducted with eye tracking but rather shed some light on implicit and explicit assumptions, caveats etc. of the method itself. Ideally, readers will find some information to make up their own minds regarding the appropriateness of the eye tracking method for the examination of diverse questions.
• Top 11 E-Commerce Usability & Optimization Resources – Baymard Institute
  All these resources have "made a vital contribution to the e-commerce usability and optimization community" and continue to do so.
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I bookmark a lot of pages and sites which I find interesting, inspirational and informative every day! I’d like to share some of them with you here. In general they are about user experience, usability, UCD, accessbility and design. In general, but not always!!

• Information Gathering: A Roundup of UX Applications | UX Booth
  The number of applications available for User Experience professionals is ever-expanding much of this growth happening over the last year! As a consequence, experts are increasingly turning to novel tools in order to collect data and generate reports regards their websites. While some UX designers suggest that local testing is the best way to gather data, we decided to round up these up-and-coming applications and see just what makes them tick.
• Sketching Fundamentals | UX Booth
• Gestalt Principles Applied in Design
  Web designers, like other artists and craftsmen, impose structure on the environment. We enforce order and beauty on the formless void that is our blank computer screen.
• Openness or How Do You Design for the Loss of Control? | Blog | design mind
  Openness is the mega-trend for innovation in the 21st century, and it remains the topic du jour for businesses of all kinds. Granted, it has been on the agenda of every executive ever since Henry Chesbrough’s seminal Open Innovation came out in 2003. However, as several new books elaborate upon the concept from different perspectives, and a growing number of organizations have recently launched ambitious initiatives to expand the paradigm to other areas of business, I thought it might be a good time to reframe “Open” from a design point of view.
• The Six Elements Of An Experience « Customer Experience Matters
  SLICE-B breaks an experience down into six distinct components:<br />
  Start. The extent to which the customer is drawn into the experience.<br />
  Locate. The ease in which the customer can find what she needs.<br />
  Interact. The ease in which the customer can understand and control the experience.<br />
  Complete. The confidence that the customer has that her goal was accomplished.<br />
  End. The transition into next steps.<br />
  Brand Coherence. The reinforcement of a company’s brand.
• Shortboredsurfer – 11 Principles of Interaction Design explained
  This post isn’t intended to be an exhaustive list of interaction design principles, its merely an introduction to the subject. And I’m definitely not going to attempt to enter the lions den of defining what ‘interaction design’ is, that’s for another day!

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I bookmark a lot of pages and sites which I find interesting, inspirational and informative every day! I’d like to share some of them with you here. In general they are about user experience, usability, UCD, accessbility and design. In general, but not always!!

• An epistemological critique of Grounded Theory | mixing social science and software design
  ‘Because emer gence is the foun da tion of our approach to the ory build ing, a researcher can not enter an inves ti ga tion with a list of pre con ceived con cepts, a guid ing the o ret i cal frame work, or a well though out design’ (Strauss and Corbin, 1998, p. 34).
• Shortboredsurfer – 11 Principles of Interaction Design
  The following short presentation was put together for our fortnightly ux meetups at Redweb. It covers 11 principles of Interaction Design. It’s not intended as an exhaustive list, simply an introduction to the subject.
• 3 Universal Goals to Influence People — PsyBlog
  The art and science of persuasion is often discussed as though changing people's minds is about using the right arguments, the right tone of voice or the right negotiation tactic. But effective influence and persuasion isn't just about patter, body language or other techniques, it's also about understanding people's motivations.
• Top 10 Reasons for Slow Velocity
  I work with quite a few product teams, and after a while you start to see patterns.  Many organizations are frustrated because they believe that it takes far too long to move from concept to delivery.  They often just blame the skills of their developers, which is rarely the root cause in my experience.
• Agile and UCD: Building the Right Thing, the Right Way
  When integrated, Agile software development and User-Centered Design (UCD) allow development teams to extract the right information from their users, to verify assumptions, and to validate design decisions.
• Ident Engine
  Without much conscious thought, most of us have built identities across the web. We've filled in profiles, uploaded photos, videos, reviews and bookmarks. The Ident Engine uses semantic web API’s to bring together these web footprints.

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I bookmark a lot of pages and sites which I find interesting, inspirational and informative every day! I’d like to share some of them with you here. In general they are about user experience, usability, UCD, accessbility and design. In general, but not always!!

• User Experience.UX Design Books
  As user experience design is the managed end-to-end synthesis of enterprise strategy, system architecture, data modeling, database design, client-side and server-side code, content, information architecture, information design, graphic (visual) design, user interface design, interaction design, user research/ethnography, usability evaluation, human factors engineering, social and cognitive psychology, as well as other disciplines and areas of expertise, this category offers a broad spectrum of UX design-related titles, each carefully hand-picked by the editor.
• If You Build It, They Won’t Come. | Jason L. Baptiste
  In the web and entrepreneurship community there’s this misconception that “launching” a product ensures long term success. It doesn’t. Launching is really just a small period of time where a lot of initial attention is drawn to the product. You should certainly be proud of getting yourself to the point of launching to the public, but the real battle is won before and most certainly continuing the marathon race for years after your initial launch.
• BBC – GEL (Global Experience Language) – Home
  The GEL guidelines are a reference point for all designers creating BBC websites (future iterations will also incorporate mobile and IPTV recommendations).
• Lost Garden: Building fun into your software designs
  I've been thinking lately about how game design applies to the broader topic of software development. Game design is all about creating pleasurable learning experiences and mastery of conceptual tools. Surely more traditional software could benefit from the design wisdom and theory that we've built up over the years in the game industry.
• Why the 80-20 Rule is Wrong – david wurtz
  Most of you have heard of the 80/20 rule, otherwise known as the Pareto Principle. For those who haven't, the principle states that in many situations, 20% of your effort typically can yield 80% of the value. Lots of students apply this every day. 20% of time invested in an assignment can get you a B, but it would take much more effort to achieve an A or A+.
• Understanding the Pareto Principle (The 80/20 Rule) | BetterExplained
• User Interface Style Guides | Konigi
  This page describes the authoring and use of style guides created to ensure consistency across a product or web site. The style guide may cover anything from branding, usage of colors, and page layout, to development practices and standards.

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