February 2012
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Responsive Navigation Tutorial →
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A great tutorial about creating progressive and responsive navigation, definitely worth a look
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Integrating UX and Agile →
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This article is about creating a UX matrix for tracking user centric activities in sprints. Looks involved, but could be worth a go.
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10 best practise & more (landing page optimisation) on www.monetate.com/resources
It about trying to create visitor loyalty! Care about your users and NOT to drive page view #SESlondon
I’m at the SES conference. Morning keynote is about to start..
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HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW YOUR EMOTIONS AND FACIAL...
adteachings:
You can get to know them a whole lot better with this awesome infographic. (It’s particularly useful for art directors, illustrators, and anyone who’s rendering a storyboard.) The high-res version is posted here: http://www.cedarseed.com/fire/emotut.jpg
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21 top tools for responsive web design →
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Top 10 Beautiful Windows Software Interfaces →
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“Change is not death. Fear of change is death.”
– Hugh MacLeod
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Ten Things To Think About When Designing Your iPad... →
Take A Goal-Oriented Approach To Simplify Functionality
Leverage What You Know To Create A Fully Personalized Experience
Think About The Place Of Use
Consider Multi-User And Multi-Device Cases
Don’t Do Crazy Navigation Unless It’s A Game Or One-Hit Wonder
Provide A Home Page
Beware Of Awkward Pop-Overs
Avoid Gratuitous Splash Screens
Use Gestures In Clever Ways, But Don’t Overdo It
Make...
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The UX Research Plan That Stakeholders Love →
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5 Ways That Android Is Trying To Break The Mobile... →
antartika2000:
ANDROID’S DESIGN CHIEF ASKS WHY WE’RE STILL DESIGNING SMARTPHONE APPLICATIONS AS IF THEY WERE DESKTOP SOFTWARE.
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THE RACE FOR THE SECOND SCREEN: FIVE APPS THAT ARE... →
evilangel009:
Good read on how companies are making TV more social. Article talks about the following companies:
GetGlue – One of my faves of the bunch, after all, who doesn’t like getting discounts and free stickers in the mail?
IntoNow – Love the interface and how easy it is to check-in. But wish there was a better incentive though.
Shazam – Definitely easy to use, but the interface isn’t...
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The Digital Living Room: Sony's new CEO gets UX... →
diglr:
From the Wall Street Journal:
New Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai described his strategic goal as teaching the company’s 168,000 employees that past successes in manufacturing must be replaced by selling the harder to quantify ‘user experience’.
The world has moved on, he said, “We can’t just continue to…
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Integrating UX into the Product Backlog - The User...
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London Olympics could break the internet →
THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT is warning people to prepare for communications breakdowns during the upcoming Olympic Games in London.
The advice is in a PDF that has appeared on the official London 2012 web site and is called “Preparing Your Business For The Games”. The document recommends that businesses and people should accept the fact that the internet could slow down and mobile phone...
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Shall we call it Braid UX?
A few colleagues and I were having a chat about Agile and Lean UX during our lunch break, and this got me thinking…
Can we combine (selective) best practices from Agile and Lean to evolve into a new type of UX? I wanted to call it (common) Sense UX, but I don’t think HTC would like that. Then I put my thinking cap on and came up with…. - Real UX? - Prac (tical) UX? - Hard UX? -...
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Intel's 'steam ship' will dominate the mobile... →
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Jason Shah: How I Decide How Legit Someone is On... →
jasonshah:
So I think people are looking for social proof everywhere: how many Facebook friends do you have, how many Repins do you have, how many Twitter followers do you have. And then they make a calculated decision about your legitimacy - as a blogger, as an entrepreneur, as a person, - whatever.
And I…
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5 Signs of a Great User Experience →
dgtlbro:
If you’ve used the mobile social network Path recently, it’s likely that you enjoyed the experience. Path has a sophisticated design, yet it’s easy to use. It sports an attractive red color scheme and the navigation is smooth as silk. It’s a social app and finding friends is easy thanks to Path’s suggestions and its connection to Facebook.
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UX Pond - a User Experience search engine →
UX Pond is a search engine dedicated to user experience blogs, journals, discussion, UI patterns, and tools.
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5 Tips: Integrating Email Marketing with Social... →
Socialise your email audience
Virally share email campaigns
Acquire social users into email
Look at social data to inform your marketing efforts
Combine your email and social audience to drive acquisition
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“If design becomes your life, you can be sure a lot of people will be making...”
– Andrés Contenti
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Planning Your UX Strategy
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“There are no bad ideas, just bad decisions.”
– Jacob Cass
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4 ways to prototype faster →
We can prototype faster by following 4 key principles:
Start prototyping with paper
Use one electronic tool, not several
Use a prototype that generates specifications
Support collaboration
Find out more how we can apply these principles in a typical Agile environment…
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“Don’t worry about people stealing your design work. Worry about the day they...”
– Jeffrey Zeldman