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- Effective UI: The Art of Building Great User Experience in Software by EffectiveUI
People expect effortless, engaging interaction with desktop and web applications, but producing software that generates enjoyable user experiences is much harder than many companies anticipate. With Effective UI, you'll learn proven user-experience stra ...
Resource - Jonathan Anderson, Robb Wilson, John McRee - February 10, 2010 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Simple and Usable Web, Mobile, and Interaction Design
In a complex world, products that are easy to use win favor with consumers. This is the first book on the topic of simplicity aimed specifically at interaction designers. It shows how to drill down and simplify user experiences when designing digit ...
Resource - Giles Colborne - September 26, 2010 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Beyond the Usability Lab: Conducting Large-scale Online User Experience Studies
Usability testing and user experience research typically take place in a controlled lab with small groups. While this type of testing is essential to user experience design, more companies are also looking to test large sample sizes to be able compare d ...
Resource - Donna Tedesco, Thomas Tullis, William Albert - January 26, 2010 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Beyond Task Completion: Flow in Design
There’s an old maxim of user interface design about ensuring that products are useful, usable, and desirable. Does the design solve a problem? Can people make it solve their problems? Do people want it to solve their problems? But even if the answers to ...
Article - Dana Chisnell - October 07, 2011 - 4 comments - 0 attachments
- Psychological Usability Heuristics
Some time ago, Susan Weinschenk wrote about the psychologist’s view of UX design , listing a number of facts about the human mind that can be directly applied to interface design. And I think that's an important point; although usability ...
Article - Jordi Sánchez - September 28, 2011 - 3 comments - 0 attachments
- Old Wine in New Bottles and New Wine in Old Bottles
Underlying the recent surge in interest in user experience may be the realization that consumers have increasing power over the fate of information technology. Taken literally, user experience concerns the subjective first-person feeling (hence “experie ...
Article - Antti Oulasvirta, Pertti Saariluoma, Rebekah Rousi, Jaana Leikas - September 27, 2011 - 1 comment - 0 attachments
- Web Forms How-To Part 1: Simplicity
At one point in the history of UX design there was almost hysteria for simplicity , with many people claiming that simplicity was always good and complexity was always bad. Lately, though, it’s become clear that not everything can have only one butto ...
Article - Eduard Martini - September 20, 2011 - 3 comments - 0 attachments
- Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, Second Edition
Five years and more than 100,000 copies after it was first published, it's hard to imagine anyone working in Web design who hasn't read Steve Krug's "instant classic" on Web usability, but people are still discovering it every day. In this second ...
Resource - Steve Krug - August 27, 2005 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Usability Week 2011 Las Vegas
The Usability Week 2011 Conference Many conferences offer cavernous exhibit halls, brief seminars on second-hand discoveries, and a sense of anonymity that can be truly alienating. Usability Week takes a different approach. Knowledge, ...
Event - Alex Laven - September 19, 2011 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Usability Week 2011 London
The Usability Week 2011 Conference Many conferences offer cavernous exhibit halls, brief seminars on second-hand discoveries, and a sense of anonymity that can be truly alienating. Usability Week takes a different approach. Knowledge, Direc ...
Event - Alex Laven - September 19, 2011 - 0 comments - 0 attachments