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Geekend is the interactive conference phenomenon you have been waiting your whole life for. Geekend is your chance to interact with people taking the tech and creative industries by storm. Join us this November as the brightest geeks, designers, devel ...

Event - Geekend - July 11, 2012 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

NTEN's signature three-day gathering brings together nonprofit professionals from around the world to collaborate, innovate, and maximize effectiveness. With a wide mix of social events, seminars, trainings, and resources, the 2013 NTC will help you put ...

Event - Brett Meyer - June 06, 2012 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Have you ever tried the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button on Google ? It’s meant to take you directly to the result you want, rather than return a list of results. It’s a simple idea, and when it works it seems like magic. But most of the time we ar ...

Article - Tony Russell-Rose - May 16, 2012 - 2 comments - 0 attachments

One of the fundamental concepts in UX is notion of affordance : the idea that objects should behave in the manner that their appearance suggests. A push plate on a door affords pushing; a handle afford pulling. How many times have you walked up to a ...

Article - Tony Russell-Rose - March 14, 2012 - 5 comments - 0 attachments

Google Catalogs is a new iPad app that presents shoppers with a consistent user interface to a wide variety of retail catalogs. Shoppers can quickly flip through exquisite catalog imagery, view coordinated product layouts and individual products ...

Article - Paul Bryan - August 26, 2011 - 4 comments - 0 attachments

User interfaces are normally designed to be durable and predictable. People don’t like surprises, and they want to be able to repeat the same actions to get the same positive results. But judicious use of transience can make product experiences even ...

Article - Joshua Allen - March 01, 2011 - 6 comments - 0 attachments

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

This could be big. Google is introducing a new set of social networking tools to Gmail. From media sharing to status updates, Google Buzz let's you use your Gmail contact list as what is essentially a "friend list". This makes it compete with literally ...

Article - Alex Schleifer - February 09, 2010 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

Part one of this article can be found here . A man could write for days and not say all there is to say about optimizing a UI for multitouch and tablet use. So I'll limit my observations for now to a few specific cases having to do ...

Article - Devin Coldewey - February 05, 2010 - 9 comments - 0 attachments

Part two of this article can be found here . As an exploration into the creation of a true tablet computing device, I wrote the piece you are about to read, which, while originally a single 3500-word monster, has been split into ...

Article - Devin Coldewey - February 03, 2010 - 0 comments - 0 attachments