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- Social Design Strategy
Great products and services depend on their users having great experiences. But it’s not about what users do or how they do it, but rather why. Why they do what they do, why they keep coming back, and why they tell their friends. And social design a ...
Article - Eric Fisher - May 11, 2011 - 4 comments - 0 attachments
- Facebook updates its Communication Channels Best Practices
Facebook has updated its Communication Channels Best Practices. A must-read for any developers who want their apps to be "streamlined, clear, and less spammy." http://wiki.developers.facebook.com/index.php/Communication_Channels_B ...
Article - Alex Schleifer - March 04, 2010 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Streams of Content, Limited Attention
In his seminal pop-book , Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi argued that people are happiest when they can reach a state of " flow ." He talks about performers and athletes who are in the height of their profession, the experience they feel as time passes ...
Article - danah boyd - February 25, 2010 - 14 comments - 0 attachments
- These are your users... read and be horrified
This came to my attention via my friend and colleague Sean Christmann ( @seanalltogether ) from EffectiveUI , who writes: The next time you're building software and think to yourself, "Don't worry, users will be able to figure it out," I wan ...
Article - Jonathan Anderson | UX Magazine - February 12, 2010 - 84 comments - 0 attachments
- Balancing Brands Online: Entertainment Case Study
Website designers face issues of prioritization all the time: which type of site content is most important? What should a site's navigational order be? Wear the black t-shirt today, or save it till Friday? In designing for entertainment companies, t ...
Article - Guild Copeland - February 09, 2010 - 1 comment - 0 attachments
- Augmented reality virtual dressing room
Ordinarily it's a bad idea to allow the Flash Player access to your webcam if you're standing in front of your computer naked or in your underwear, but we may have found an exception to that rule. Zugara and Rich Relevance have teamed u ...
Article - Jonathan Anderson | UX Magazine - December 14, 2009 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Big Changes Coming to Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg posted an open letter today about some possibly far reaching changes: the phasing out of regional networks. This will affect over half of the 350 million Facebook users. While sites like Twitter seem to be releasing a fea ...
Article - Alex Schleifer - December 02, 2009 - 4 comments - 0 attachments
- Failing Fast: Getting Projects Out of the Lab
“Failing fast” means getting putting applications out in the wild as soon as possible to learn whether they will succeed. This gives you access to early user feedback to quickly weed out ideas and methods that don’t work. Failing fast is a good thin ...
Article - Tony Hillerson, Alan Lewis, Scott Green, Ryan Stewart, Randy Rieland - November 23, 2009 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Designing Superior Shopping Experiences
Imagine shopping in a store where the displays never change. Customers select items by browsing through monolithic aisles of products. Store displays are minimal and uninteresting. Items in the displays are hard to find or even unavailable. This doesn't ...
Article - George Plesko - November 30, 2009 - 15 comments - 0 attachments
- Facebook App Directory Redesign
Looks like Facebook will be redesigning their application directory with so-called “verified” apps now getting added prominence. This new paid, premium status will surely shake things up — with over fifty thousand (!) apps now on Faceb ...
Article - Alex Schleifer - May 14, 2009 - 1 comment - 0 attachments