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- UCDmanager
UCDmanager is a collaborative web application aimed to manage and document different User-Centered Design and usability techniques , in an integrated manner: user roles, personas, heuristic evaluations, usability user testing, etc. ...
Resource - jordisan - October 25, 2012 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Mirror, Mirror, on the Screen
According to Don Norman (author of Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things ) there are three levels of cognitive processing. The visceral level is the most immediate and is the one marketing departments look to when trying to ...
Article - David Moskovic - October 11, 2012 - 1 comment - 0 attachments
- Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior
There is no single methodology for creating the perfect product, but you can increase your odds by understanding understand users' reasons for doing things. Mental Models gives you the tools to help you grasp, and design for, those reasons. Adaptive ...
Resource - Indi Young - October 11, 2012 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
Emotional Design explores the deep influence the feelings that objects evoke have on consumers—from our willingness to spend thousands of dollars on Gucci bags and Rolex watches, to the impact of emotion on the everyday objects being desig ...
Resource - Donald Norman - October 11, 2012 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Iterating for Visitors at the Exploratorium
The Exploratorium is a museum of science, art, and human perception located in San Francisco. As an exhibit developer here, my task is to create experiences for museum visitors that are educational and entertaining. Like many other user experiences, ...
Article - Eric Socolofsky - October 08, 2012 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- A Tablet Still Is Not a Book ... Not Yet
Reading on an iPad , or a tablet , just isn't the same as reading a book. And for me, it's not better. Even though I was, of course, excited about the prospect of an infinitely accessible library in a carry-on form, the fact is that when I try to ...
Article - Dan Turner - September 26, 2012 - 21 comments - 0 attachments
- Tone and Voice: Showing Your Users That You Care
Voice and tone. Tone and voice. Though the words "voice" and "tone" are often used interchangeably, they're not synonyms. Our voice makes us unique, and our tone makes us sound like humans. Establishing a likable voice is critical for brands, but there’ ...
Article - Kate Kiefer Lee - September 17, 2012 - 1 comment - 0 attachments
- Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Through a series of illuminating experiments, MIT behavioral economist Dan Ariely refutes the assumption that we behave in fundamentally rational ways. Blending common experience with groundbreaking research, Predictably Irrational explains how expe ...
Resource - Dan Ariely - September 14, 2012 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die
With Made to Stick , accomplished educators and idea collectors Chip and Dan Heath reveal the anatomy of ideas that stick and explain ways to make ideas stickier, such as applying the “human scale principle,” using the “Velcro Theory of Memory,” ...
Resource - Chip Heath, Dan heath - September 14, 2012 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Should We Focus on User Experience?
In the next seven minutes or so, this article hopes to convince you that our current notion of UX design mistakenly focuses on experience, and that we should go one step further and focus on the memory of an experience instead. Studies of behavi ...
Article - Koen AT Claes - September 14, 2012 - 15 comments - 0 attachments