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A late Friday link round-up!

May 21

Alex Horstmannlinks eCommerce, search, soci, Usability, User Experience, ux No Comments

Is the 1,9,90 Rule Outdated?
http://www.futurelab.net/blogs/marketing-strategy-innovation/2012/05/1990_rule_outdated.html

Do A/B Tests Focus Us On The Wrong Problems?
http://www.uie.com/brainsparks/2012/05/14/do-ab-tests-focus-us-on-the-wrong-problems/

Behavioral Targeting Pros and Cons
http://behavioraltargeting.biz/behavioral-targeting-pros-and-cons/

Designing Search: As-You-Type Suggestions
http://uxmag.com/articles/designing-search-as-you-type-suggestions

Scalable Navigation Patterns in Responsive Web Design
http://www.palantir.net/blog/scalable-navigation-patterns-responsive-web-design

Video of the week (purely on the sheer numbers below)
Gotye – Somebody That I Use to Know

214,568,663 views
13,951,108 shares all time
13,940,367 Facebook shares
290,511 comments
10,741 blog posts

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May 11

Alex Horstmannlinks content, Design, mobile, User Experience, ux No Comments

The Internet’s Battle For Our Digital Souls (user experience and neuroscience)
http://bigthink.com/ideas/the-internets-battle-for-our-digital-souls

Mobile technology is literally changing the way we think
http://conversations.nokia.com/2012/05/10/top-scientist-susan-greenfield-says-mobile-technology-is-literally-changing-the-way-we-think/

Content Quality Over Content Quantity
http://experiencematters.criticalmass.com/2012/05/09/content-quality-over-content-quantity/

User experience is strategy, not design
http://www.peterme.com/2012/05/04/user-experience-is-strategy-not-design/

Quote of the Week:

When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.
- Steve Jobs

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Apr 27

Alex Horstmannlinks advertising, eCommerce, mobile, testing, Usability, ux No Comments

How Mobile Technologies Are Shaping a New Generation
http://blogs.hbr.org/erickson/2012/04/the_mobile_re-generation.html

UX Immersion: The Mobile Frontier
http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1546

5 Ways to Create Better iPad Applications
http://uxmag.com/articles/5-ways-to-create-better-ipad-applications

Behavior Change as Value Proposition
http://dev.adaptivepath.com/ideas/behavior-change-as-value-proposition

Clicks Don’t Count!
http://www.neurosciencemarketing.com/blog/articles/clicks-dont-count.htm

Usability testing video games with biometrics
http://www.spotlessinteractive.com/articles/usability-research/usability-testing-video-games-biometrics.php

Quote of the Week:
“Being a geek is all about your own personal level of enthusiasm, not how your level of enthusiasm measures up to others. If you like something so much that a casual mention of it makes your whole being light up like a halogen lamp, if hearing a stranger fondly mention your favorite book or game is instant grounds for friendship, if you have ever found yourself bouncing out of your chair because something you learned blew your mind so hard that you physically could not contain yourself — you are a geek”

- The Mary Sue (via Curiosity Counts)

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