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- Refining Simplicity
Simplicity is at the core of what we do as user experience professionals. Its importance can be found in almost every design principle and guideline out there, evidenced in the work of everyone from IBM to Dieter Rams . Author Ken Segall even wro ...
Article - Jared Lewandowski - March 15, 2013 - 5 comments - 0 attachments
- Visual Balance and Weight Allocation for Usability
Balance is something all people strive to achieve in life as it gives us a sense of stability and strength. Our lives are full of dynamic forces influencing our daily routines and finding balance means creating priorities and allocating time to all area ...
Article - Tammy Guy - March 14, 2013 - 9 comments - 0 attachments
- A Midwesterner's Guide to Recruiting UX Designers
It's damn hard to recruit and hire great user-centered design talent right now. Demand is palpably high. Supply seems depressingly low. Midwestern organizations are competing against every Silicon Valley startup throwing cash and options at the ...
Article - Kyle Murphy - March 12, 2013 - 13 comments - 0 attachments
- ConceptCodify
ConceptCodify is an online card sorting application for web and application designers and developers. ConceptCodify's application is quick, easy, and simple, and at a reasonable price. ConceptCodify wants everyone making websites and applications to mak ...
Resource - Ka Bison - March 11, 2013 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- UX Behind the Firewall
User experience is most often thought of in the context of public-facing designs, like e-commerce sites and, more recently, mobile apps . Increasingly, however, organizations are becoming aware of the benefits of UX to what they do internally ...
Article - Clive Howard - March 08, 2013 - 4 comments - 0 attachments
- gSchool's Experience Architect Program
Galvanize and EffectiveUI have partnered up to offer an intensive, six-month training program to create experience architects. This is the perfect course for that person you know who is trying to break into UX. ...
Event - Beth Koloski - March 08, 2013 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Creating Savvy and Sophisticated User Experiences through Personalization
The trend of personalizing websites is finally in full swing. We’ve been talking about it for years—flirting with it in fits and starts—but now the tools are at our fingertips and the strategies have matured for providing complex personalized user exper ...
Article - Matthew Fiore - March 07, 2013 - 5 comments - 0 attachments
- The Five Worst UX Mistakes Websites Make
The user experience of websites has improved by leaps and bounds over the years, but I still run into sites that make me ask, “What were they thinking?!” From a design perspective, it’s easy to get caught up in internal squabbles (“No, no, THIS ...
Article - Susan Weinschenk, Ph.D. - March 06, 2013 - 12 comments - 0 attachments
- Player-Centric Design: The UX of The Room
Fireproof Games was taken by surprise when Apple named their iPad adventure-puzzler, The Room , Game of the Year at the end of 2012, propelling it to the #1 position in the App Store. “We didn’t receive any word other than an email of ...
Article - John Ferrara - March 04, 2013 - 2 comments - 0 attachments
- POP UX! Lego Teaches us About the Power of Near-Perfect User Experience
Growing up, I could burn through an entire day playing with "Legos." It was as if building the baddest spaceships, tanks, cars, and fortresses filled a void I didn’t even know was there. I remember being about seven or eight and telling my mom that I’d ...
Article - Josh Tyson | UX Magazine - February 28, 2013 - 14 comments - 0 attachments