Aug 13
Alex Horstmannlinks, social Design, links, psychology, travel, twitter, ux
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!!
- Ten simple steps to make global travel websites more engaging | Tnooz
Ever wonder what the most popular sites do to keep traffic and grow their business? While the specific formula for success is different for each site, there are some things in common that most popular sites do.
- A huge list of Style Guides and UI Guidelines » The UX Bookmark
If you are a graphic designer or an interaction designer and have ever been tasked with creating a style guide or UI guidelines document (both are different and I’ve had the pleasure to work on both of them creating templates and the actual documents for brands and products), this list should help you out as a consolidated list of references. This list is going to be constantly updated (and will ultimately be a monster list, it’s quite modest for now) of publicly accessible style guides and UI guideline documents on the web. If you find any links not working or would like to suggest one that is not on the list, feel free to comment and let me know.
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- Twitter: 10 Psychological Insights — PsyBlog
There are now 190 million Twitter users around the world producing 65 million tweets each day. 19% of US internet users now say they use Twitter or a similar service to share updates about themselves—double the figure from the previous year (Pew, 2009).<br />
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So who tweets? Why? What are they talking about? And what is so engaging about all those little textual transmissions?
- Stop Designing Aesthetics, Start Designing Emotions | Webdesigner Depot
Discussing emotion in design is a bit of a hot topic at the moment, it seems to be popping up in more and more blog posts and speaker sessions. In fact I saw at least three different web designers say that it was the subject of the talk which they had recently submitted for next year’s SXSWi.
Please do feel free to suggest other related (and unrelated ones)!
Apr 19
Alex Horstmannlinks, social Design, fonts, links, management, social, socialmedia, tags, testing, twitter, typography, Usability, ux, web2.0
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!!
- Visualising Usability Test Results
How can users quickly create a timed transcript of any video on the web? That’s Mozilla’s latest design challenge, in collaboration with the Participatory Culture Foundation, challenges teams to design an intuitive interface for creating and improving subtitles for any video on the web. In this article I’ll share some ideas on how to interpret usability testing results like those presented by the Mozilla Labs team.
- User-Generated Content: Embracing Social Networking to Deliver More Engaging Technical Documentation
- Growing the UX Management Community
As User Experience matures as a discipline and grows in influence in the business community, UX leaders need to support one another by sharing their insights with their counterparts in other organizations…
- Planning your UX Strategy
A strategy is a set of coordinated, orchestrated, planned actions, or tactics, which will take you along a journey to reach a desired future state, over an established period of time. Design objectives are conditions or outcomes that a project must meet, often of tactical nature. User experience (UX) strategy shouldn’t therefore be confused with design objectives. This article is about how to plan and coordinate actions to organisationally achieve good UX.
- Strong, Weak, & Temporary Ties
Paul Adams, UX researcher at Google, is studying what sorts of relationships people have online. His latest piece, Designing for Social Interaction: Strong, Weak, & Temporary Ties shows how people mostly use social networks to map their life, not create a whole new online one:
- Perception of Fonts: Perceived Personality Traits and Uses
This study sought to determine if certain personalities and uses are associated with various fonts. Using an online survey, participants rated the personality of 20 fonts using 15 adjective pairs. In addition, participants viewed the same 20 fonts and selected which uses were most appropriate. Results suggested that personality traits are indeed attributed to fonts based on their design family (Serif, Sans-Serif, Modern, Monospace, Script/Funny) and are associated with appropriate uses. Implications of these results to the design of online materials and websites are discussed.
- The Holistic Web " Taxonomy vs Folksonomy
A folksonomy makes a heap of sense on the internet where there is no central governing body, and even if there was, it would probably be widely ignored. However, internally to a company, it’s a different story. Does a folksonomy make sense, or is a taxonomy a better way to go?
Please do feel free to suggest other related (and unrelated ones)!
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