Last week I attended a day of the UX Week conference and was lucky enough to listen to a talk from Bernhard Seefeld and Elizabeth Windram from the Google Maps team. During their talk they mentioned something that perked my interest. It didn’t sound like the same old, same old when I hear people talk about user experience.
They design for the power user.
“Computers are too hard to use, they require us to waste our brains learning too many things that aren’t REAL knowledge, they’re just stupid computer conventions.”
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.
Excellent set of stencils for when you need to wireframe out that new iPhone application.
The beginnings of the instant message chat bubble.
Videos of presentations from Interaction 08. Now I just need to find the time to watch a few of them…
Nice article about Tufte’s “computer administrative debris”. You can easily take this concept of removing debris too far, but it’s important to keep these ideas in your mind while you’re designing interfaces.
Great thoughts about the illogical parts, the feeling of UI design. I particularly loved the quote “Change and fresh energy bring hope.”
“This guide offers researched and tested best practices for developing successful member station joint-licensee and TV-only Web sites.”
What makes people believe the websites they read?
How not to improve a web form registration process
UX Week Presentation by Marc Rettig, Aradhana Goel
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