Crude Technologies

Wednesday, 19th August, 10:48 PM
Enjoyed this! Information architecture of social experience design in 5 principles, 5 anti-patterns, and 3 buckets: http://j.mp/WIhvI #ia

Tuesday, 18th August, 3:46 PM
Managing UI complexity—progressive disclosure, contextual actions, alignment, visual hierarchy, & mental models: http://j.mp/OsYAD #ux #ui

Monday, 17th August, 8:21 AM
Use the 4 elements of elegance—symmetry, seduction, subtraction, and sustainability (vid+summary): http://j.mp/3xZba #ux #design

Friday, 14th August, 9:14 AM
Practicing product minimalism—when do you decide to *remove* features? http://j.mp/94ZQj #ux #design #usability

Thursday, 13th August, 3:50 PM
If someone else printed a user guide for your product, how many pages would they need? http://j.mp/GBv85 #ux #design #usability

Wednesday, 12th August, 10:36 AM
Are rounded rectangles friendly? Apple thinks so. One scientist claims they're easier to visually process: http://j.mp/Tt8Um #design #ux

Tuesday, 11th August, 8:36 AM
#Advice and lessons learned for taking a 6 week sabbatical to rest, recuperate, and renew your creative energies: http://j.mp/HBeXr

Monday, 10th August, 10:56 AM
What metric are you designing to improve today? While aesthetics are subjective, behavior is not: http://j.mp/l0J8u #ux #design

Friday, 7th August, 10:29 AM
Hypothesizing “The Steve Jobs Method”—iteration, discipline, differentiation, experimentation, abandonment: http://j.mp/bZv5h #design

Thursday, 6th August, 8:41 AM
Eye-tracking studies on web forms design, scanning vs reading, and the F-shaped pattern for web content: http://j.mp/pA28Z #UX

Wednesday, 5th August, 12:57 PM
Is Apple really a "feminine brand" with a "feminized" user experience? Don't men want #usability and service? http://j.mp/FHeE0 #UX

Tuesday, 4th August, 11:36 AM
#Design for yourself: Steve Jobs on why Apple doesn't do market research—“discipline to think through” what users want: http://j.mp/KZUCA

Monday, 3rd August, 12:14 PM
#UX via twitter.com/terretta

Friday, 31st July, 11:13 PM
FCC questions Apple, AT&T, and Google over Google Voice rejection: http://tcrn.ch/25dr

Friday, 31st July, 3:08 PM
#UX design is a creative art form—here's a visually elegant way to show users if they typed a hidden password right: http://j.mp/19TWx0

Thursday, 30th July, 6:12 PM
Why some people love meetings, and other people hate them—some people are “managers”, others (like devs) are “makers”: http://j.mp/13Pnx3

Wednesday, 29th July, 2:58 PM
Asking “What would Apple do?” contradicts everything Silicon Valley startups consider gospel over the past five years: http://j.mp/8bd8j

Tuesday, 28th July, 3:27 PM
Monetize the audience, not the content,” argues #VC Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures: http://j.mp/3k54qN

Monday, 27th July, 3:13 PM
#Usability #tips from a small #e-commerce owner: design a familiar #UX, focus on blogs, and show great photos: http://j.mp/10Xhju

Friday, 24th July, 5:05 PM
Top UX designer from Autodesk suggests a list of core principles for software UX Design Practice: http://j.mp/ywjsI

Thursday, 23rd July, 1:44 PM
Design 2.0: Minimalism, Transparency, and You” — interviews with the designers of web 2.0 services and applications: http://j.mp/DVn7W

Wednesday, 22nd July, 4:16 PM
Society can eliminate scarcity, but not this way. What's wrong with copy protection: http://j.mp/tlk4f

Tuesday, 21st July, 12:14 PM
Your site is arguably its least “usable” when it's down—8 best practices with examples to keep your users happy: http://j.mp/19VqFf

Monday, 20th July, 11:56 AM
Content templates speed up info collection, improve consistency across a website, and make editing process easier: http://j.mp/1boLIk

Friday, 17th July, 9:14 PM
pro tip: based on personal experience, @jkatinger knows your web strategy, seo, and drupal; @wvpmc knows your new media PR

Friday, 17th July, 9:30 AM
Control interfaces must not be “intelligent”—lessons learned comparing Google and Wolfram Alpha search: http://j.mp/tEHd5

Thursday, 16th July, 10:43 PM
Daily builds of Chromium (Google Chrome for Mac) getting ready for prime time—start page, private browsing, tabs on top: http://j.mp/uuTXb

Thursday, 16th July, 10:41 AM
There are no “small changes” in quality software development. UX designers shouldn’t just nod and add a bullet point: http://j.mp/yA7ut

Wednesday, 15th July, 10:27 PM
It’s so obvious many organizations completely forget—when running a company, don't abstract out your real customers: http://j.mp/sBJZS

Tuesday, 14th July, 2:15 PM
Web design is 95% typography (and choosing a typeface is not same as shaping text for optimal UX): http://j.mp/BxlrR + http://j.mp/R1L9W

Monday, 13th July, 11:52 PM
The problem though is that the report is complete bollocks and even Morgan Stanley admits it”: http://j.mp/ghQTz

Monday, 13th July, 12:34 PM
Got a teen persona in your UX use cases? A Morgan Stanley intern’s report (http://j.mp/vxlar) upsets CEOs’ biz-plans: http://j.mp/kFUsm

Friday, 10th July, 5:13 PM
Deceptive design as a *good* thing—using visual illusions to emphasize key features: http://j.mp/dL3ZT

Thursday, 9th July, 4:05 PM
Use microcopy snippets of help or reassurance to alleviate concerns of would-be customers: http://j.mp/yrzc5

Wednesday, 8th July, 3:23 PM
When modeling users to decide how to design for behavior, think pinballs, shortcuts, and thoughtfulness: http://j.mp/bVk6g

Tuesday, 7th July, 1:12 PM
How can you modify a design or redesign a system to influence or change user behavior? The “Design with Intent” Toolkit: http://j.mp/MW2Ve

Monday, 6th July, 9:22 AM
Build customer advocacy through both value and loyalty, by helping customers kick ass: http://j.mp/16tGbi

Sunday, 5th July, 10:22 PM
It's curious that humans prefer cockiness to expertise, but it holds true in web marketing too: http://j.mp/bF6qq

Saturday, 4th July, 1:51 AM
Subtractive design—"making everything as simple as possible, but not simpler", better fit through neutralizing misfit: http://j.mp/jZlg4

Thursday, 2nd July, 11:34 AM
If "RGB" spectrum of User eXperience is Tech, Economy, Design—blended white is Performance, Consistency, Simplicity: http://j.mp/1061Yh

Wednesday, 1st July, 2:14 PM
A decade ago, Web usability guru Jakob Nielsen listed Top 10 Web Design Mistakes of 1999. At least 9 are still around: http://j.mp/ecxrR

Monday, 29th June, 7:18 PM
MIT tests Tin Foil Hat theory with $250k of equipment, finds tin foil increases ability to "read" brain waves remotely: http://j.mp/rGvjY

Sunday, 28th June, 9:05 PM
The coming age of Internet censorship, via wikileaks.org: http://j.mp/9i4Z4

Wednesday, 24th June, 10:04 PM
So @msofficeus is taking a giant step back for email standards by using Word, not HTML, in Outlook 2010. See http://fixoutlook.org then RT

Tuesday, 23rd June, 11:26 PM
Immortal flesh—accidental discovery of skin cells that never die, thanks to chromosome 8 and a duplicate string of DNA: http://j.mp/lNRrw

Sunday, 21st June, 10:15 PM
Augmented reality w/ Layar turns a mobile phone’s camera into an info portal like Terminator's vision (see 2nd vid): http://j.mp/fvtPc

Sunday, 21st June, 8:59 AM
Customers given too many choices are 10x less likely to buy. Give not less than three, not more than six: http://sivers.org/jam

Saturday, 20th June, 3:55 PM
Ash Creek Saloon has the best grilled portobello mushroom burger I've ever had... Worth a visit: http://j.mp/12KiP7

Friday, 19th June, 10:37 AM
NYT tech reporter David Pogue's "productivity secrets"—commute less, empty inbox, search, good calendar, helpful spouse: http://j.mp/hdMDs

Tuesday, 16th June, 2:15 PM
Opera Unite actually does "reinvent the web", putting the power of a Web server in your browser: http://unite.opera.com/