I love reading about the design process, but this video showing the evolution of Convert for the iPhone is even better.
Great advice from Ryan Singer describing what he calls “Domain Languages”.
Love this. Hopefully it’ll be kept up and added to.
Love this post from Rands In Repose and it couldn’t come at a better time. I’m working on finishing up a lot of little details on a web application and it’s great to remember how important these little things are.
After being incredibly frustrated with the usability software available this looks like a breath of fresh air. Can’t wait to see this finally released!
Great advice from Ryan Singer over at 37 Signals. Whenever I’m building out site structures I’m constantly thinking about user tasks or “paths” as well.
Nice new site from Paul Boag for his podcast. I finally met him briefly at SXSW this year and he was great to talk to. The inaugural interview for the new site is friend and fellow Blue Flavorite, Jeff Croft.
“36 lectures by people such as Bill Moggridge, Bill Buxton, Elizabeth Churchill, Paul Dourish and Donald Norman.” All up on iTunes U.
I offer quite a few feeds on this site but I’ve stuck with just one format. Giving the users the option of what they want to subscribe to is good, giving them unnecessary technical choices is bad.
Nice way to view and promote the book. It’s definitely on my wish list.
“Occasionally someone would notice his value to a project, but instead of giving him the care he deserved, they’d just fork over copious amounts of cash to ship him off to his sketchy uncle SEO, who tied him up and fed him keywords all day long.”
Great tips on all aspects of UX design from the guys down the street at Google here in Seattle. I agree with a lot that’s said, but I lean towards removing all color instead of making things look unfinished to keep the focus on interactions.
Videos of presentations from Interaction 08. Now I just need to find the time to watch a few of them…
A nice collection of user interfaces on the web. I’ve had a few ideas about doing something like similar to this last year but just haven’t had the time. I’m glad someone is compiling some good interaction design reference material.
Great thoughts about the illogical parts, the feeling of UI design. I particularly loved the quote “Change and fresh energy bring hope.”
Google’s new tool to help websites improve goal completion rates by running A/B type tests.
Nietzsche on usability: “To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.”
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Interview with apple designer Jonathan Ive