Friday, 26th March, 1:04 PM
#Flash vs #HTML5 -- Until we realize the foolishness of faith in technology, we’ll see the same cycle repeated: http://j.mp/axUb0W #ux #ui
Thursday, 25th March, 5:09 PM
Guess what? Your users do that because you designed it that way: http://j.mp/axiOWX #ux #ia
Wednesday, 24th March, 4:28 PM
Memorable visual #illustrations of fundamental principles of #design: http://j.mp/9wfVyr
Thursday, 4th March, 3:45 PM
The Minimum Feature Set's purpose is getting the first version and vision of your product to early-vangelists fast: http://j.mp/d8gRcX
Wednesday, 3rd March, 9:20 PM
Above-the-fold thinking neglects what happens at the end of an #html page. You need footers that don't stink: http://j.mp/aqfQgb #ia #ux #ui
Tuesday, 2nd March, 10:23 AM
How Lady Gaga builds brand loyalty--Give fans a name, make them bigger, share symbols, treat as rock stars, socialize: http://j.mp/90AEzl
Monday, 1st March, 12:39 PM
Sometimes all that stuff your product does NOT do is exactly why people want it: http://j.mp/bD6OlF #ux #ia #usability #Google #Buzz
Monday, 1st March, 9:19 AM
5 user experience trends for 2010--service as software, #UX analytics, content strategy, mobile web, experience economy: http://j.mp/d16QtB
Friday, 26th February, 4:22 PM
The laws of prägnanz (pithiness) say we order our experience in a way that's regular, orderly, symmetric, and simple: http://j.mp/bPcwrW #ux
Friday, 26th February, 2:49 PM
If elements of an interface are ambiguous, behaviour should be what will least astonish the user: http://j.mp/bKjqei #ux #usability #pola
Thursday, 25th February, 3:40 PM
Bringing user centered #design to the #agile environment: http://j.mp/bl4oln #ucd #ux #development #scrum
Thursday, 25th February, 11:07 AM
Is this obvious? Let’s make 2010 the year of common sense user experience: http://j.mp/b5xTBV #usability #ux #ui #design #webdesign
Wednesday, 24th February, 11:40 AM
"The All New Yahoo! eFail Client" -- when web mail stops being usable, users get irate: http://j.mp/ct44EC #ux #usability @yahoo #gmail
Tuesday, 23rd February, 1:07 PM
#Simplicity is easy to describe but difficult to achieve, especially when there are other people in your life: http://j.mp/bSR58X #declutter
Monday, 22nd February, 5:20 PM
Transform your software #design process into an objective, deliberate activity that furthers commerce: http://j.mp/9VSIMb #ia #ux
Friday, 19th February, 12:59 PM
Style guides are a great way to ensure user experience consistency. Here's how to make one: http://j.mp/9PFwca #ux #ui #ia #design
Friday, 19th February, 10:54 AM
For non-hierarchical sites, breadcrumbs are useful only to show a page’s relation to more general concepts: http://j.mp/a8i2Xg #ia #ui #ux
Friday, 19th February, 9:40 AM
#Apple has no pretense at “openness” but, unlike #Google, it thinks deeper when designing its products: http://j.mp/9f8smo #ux $GOOG $AAPL
Thursday, 18th February, 8:22 PM
Goal oriented "Activity-Centered Design" results in better technology than user study driven "Human-Centered Design": http://j.mp/aVuyiL #ux
Wednesday, 17th February, 12:37 PM
Warning: force feeding users can result in vomiting: http://j.mp/9JzHom #ux #userexperience #marketing #Google #Buzz $GOOG
Tuesday, 16th February, 12:45 PM
The $5 Guerrilla User Test--drunk people are a pretty accurate mimic of distracted, indifferent people: http://j.mp/9WOWem #usability #ux
Monday, 15th February, 11:20 AM
Google, these are your users http://post.ly/Nzdk
Saturday, 13th February, 9:04 PM
#Google learns value of #usability #testing, hastily revises #Buzz start-up experience based on user feedback: http://j.mp/9bpgW6 #ux #ia
Thursday, 11th February, 9:04 AM
Google Buzz is disruptive because all about open, standardized user data: http://j.mp/awIJJ1 #usability #ia
Wednesday, 10th February, 10:48 AM
By focusing on only 3 core features in a first version, you're forced to find its true essence and value: http://j.mp/cNYGG7 #ia #ux
Tuesday, 9th February, 10:58 AM
A novel idea to push the social media "signal vs noise" quality problem into authors’ hands: http://j.mp/bNLXII #ia #ux #ui #facebook
Monday, 8th February, 9:16 AM
Font stacks are ultimately #design factors, and should be scrutinized as such--use better #CSS #font stacks: http://j.mp/dbUw26 #ux #ui
Friday, 5th February, 9:54 AM
Why the Apple iPad has no Java or Flash http://post.ly/MKQc
Thursday, 4th February, 1:38 PM
Not only must interfaces be simple, elegant, usable, and accessible; they must also be honest: http://j.mp/94x9R5 #ux #ui #design #ia
Wednesday, 3rd February, 3:56 PM
In global age of #UX thinking and design, we must develop better appreciation and understanding of cultures we work with: http://j.mp/91tvpi
Tuesday, 2nd February, 5:42 PM
The growing percentage of users on non-Flash-capable platforms is a wake-up call to get the basics right first: http://j.mp/9QhMCb #ia #ux
Monday, 1st February, 2:37 PM
An information appliance for the caveman in us http://post.ly/LewE
Monday, 1st February, 11:54 AM
Great products are triumphs of taste, trying to bring the best things humans have done into what you are doing: http://j.mp/93Ksxg @Apple
Sunday, 31st January, 7:01 PM
Good #design is always hard to program. 12 ways to help #developers make software more human: http://j.mp/dtohKO #ux #ia #teamwork
Friday, 29th January, 8:48 PM
Counterpoint on iPad angst: usability makes tech geeks nervous http://post.ly/LGR8
Friday, 29th January, 1:20 PM
Every single action with iPad's books is animated for natural human interaction: http://j.mp/bQMzPf #ux #ui #usability #iPad
Friday, 29th January, 12:39 PM
Snark on iPad "missing" Flash, from surprising source http://post.ly/LCbd
Thursday, 28th January, 12:28 PM
Apple's 0.7 megapixel 4:3 EDTV media viewer http://post.ly/L1NM
Wednesday, 27th January, 11:27 AM
Users faster, more successful, less error-prone, more satisfied using forms with inline validation: http://j.mp/aYlH99 #ux #ui #ia
Tuesday, 26th January, 8:45 AM
Even new @Twitter users need priming and context. Web design should give needed guidance through ‘usability’: http://j.mp/6JFaV8 #ux #ia
Monday, 25th January, 3:54 PM
#Usability lessons--short menus, top nav, blue links, clickable buttons, less graphics, calls to action, fewer buttons: http://j.mp/68kmdS
Monday, 25th January, 9:41 AM
24 hours of video player UIs. Which do you prefer? http://j.mp/6Y6msw + Silverlight Player to compare: http://j.mp/6tj1SJ #ui #ux #ovp
Technology often develops from primitive to complicated to simple. The web develops faster and more client focussed than traditional technologies. Web development is cheaper, more flexible and most importantly: everyone can contribute to its development. In concrete terms: Better interaction design, less graphic design. Better user experience, less debates about taste. Faster technology, more reliable design standards.
iA predicts the future of web design by looking at What's Needed. After 15+ years of web design, you'd imagine some of this would be taken for granted, but then again, look at magazines...
Simplicity. iA points out most sites are still too hard to use. In our web design profession, we sometimes forget the users who think "screenshot" means taking a picture of the computer with their camera. Sites need to focus on a rational business model, simplify to do it well, and be approachable for non-insiders.
Speed. Physical interfaces offer instant feedback. Flipping through People magazine is far faster using paper than online. Web sites need to be designed for fewer clicks with less latency. Using them needs to feel fluid. iPhone apps such as Tweetie 2 are getting there.
Beauty. User experience isn't the skin, it's the interface. Designers need to work more on interaction style than visual style—less on what the CEO wants and more on what the end user needs.
Applying these, iA sees trends towards getting design out of the way and unifying user interfaces, through tools such as standardized web fonts, grid layouts, and UI libraries such as jQuery.
Friday, 22nd January, 6:29 PM
To see beyond today’s limits of the web, all we need to do is see what is needed. What's next in #web #design: http://j.mp/6HNHNu #ia #ux
Thursday, 21st January, 4:40 PM
People are confused by symbols with too many or too few details, but recognize UI elements somewhere in the middle: http://j.mp/6YrAAg #ui
Wednesday, 20th January, 11:55 AM
For pleasant usability, ensure a consistent continuous flow of design ideas in your entire software house: http://j.mp/5bn1jJ #ux #ui #ia
Tuesday, 19th January, 2:33 PM
#Design in the computing biz is too often confused with #technology, something entirely different: http://j.mp/4yIBpT #ux #ui #pc #mac
Tuesday, 19th January, 8:18 AM
For consumer web apps today, #design matters more than technology. You can't just engineer any more: http://j.mp/4OBnaN #ux #ui
Monday, 18th January, 6:55 PM
Choose usable UI components based on key principles of affordance and intuitiveness: http://j.mp/4tTGGL #ux #ui #usability
Friday, 15th January, 11:03 PM
Use diagramming tools to "hand-sketch" #wireframes for faster expression of ideas, perception of fluidity: http://j.mp/7imLg4 #ia #ui
Thursday, 14th January, 11:41 AM
Shopping for bedsheets–how hard could it be? A survey of challenges in #ecommerce #usability: http://j.mp/4HRnfY #ux
Wednesday, 13th January, 4:12 PM
As the virtual and the ambient are integrated into our lives, we can start to live in more minimalist environments: http://j.mp/8JqlRh #ux
Tuesday, 12th January, 11:38 PM
Don't use words that suck all the meaning out. Language is how we know each other: http://j.mp/83h0ut #marketing #language #usability
Monday, 11th January, 9:25 PM
If your personality could be translated into a typeface, what type are you? http://j.mp/8Y5PrV #font #design #personality #quiz #typography
Monday, 11th January, 5:02 PM
Droid doesn't. Have touchscreen accuracy, that is... http://post.ly/IAru