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Austin UXBookClub
"The UX Book Club Austin seeks to enhance the abilities and knowledge of user experience professionals from information architects and interaction designers to visual designers and usabil...
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http://uxbookclub.org/doku.php?id=austin
IA now - SlideShare
Information Architecture, User Experience Design
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http://www.slideshare.net/karrio/ia-now-presentation
Working through Screens Book
"Working through Screens is a reference for product teams creating new or iteratively improved applications for thinking work. Written for use during early, formative conversations, it pr...
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http://www.flashbulbinteraction.com/WTS.html
Stanford University Online Accessibility Program
The Stanford Online Accessibility Program has been established to provide guidance to the Stanford Community as they use various online means to share information to their respective cons...
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http://soap.stanford.edu/index.php
web.without.words
"[A] visual playground. Every week I'll take a popular and known website and reconstruct it by removing all words and images, replacing them with blocks (a common "concepting" phase of an...
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http://webwithoutwords.com/#
Thoughts on Interaction Design: About This Project
It "is the primary goal of this text to better define Interaction Design: to provide a definition that encompasses the intellectual facets of the field, the conceptual underpinnings of In...
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http://thoughtsoninteraction.com
Telescopic Text
An exploration of scale and levels of detail. How much or little is contained within the tiniest, most ordinary of moments.
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http://www.telescopictext.com
6 Metrics for Managing UI Design
"As part of a recent management summit at my company, we were asked to fill out an RMPT matrix for our departments (I head up Product Design). An RMPT matrix consists of (R)esponsibiliti...
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http://blog.dexodesign.com/2008/08/18/6-metrics-for-managing-ui-design
The Micro-site Isn’t Dead. (It's Just Not Useful)
If there’s one type of headline that gets attention—it’s about claiming the death of something. Well, I’d like to proclaim the “un-dead” nature of a format which I think has ...
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http://darmano.typepad.com/logic_emotion/2008/08/the-microsite-i.html
Domain-Driven Design in an Evolving Architecture
Mat Wall and Nik Silver explain how their has been using Domain-Driven Design in an evolving and Agile environment, at high traffic news site guardian.co.uk.
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http://www.infoq.com/articles/ddd-evolving-architecture
Aurora
Aurora is a concept video presenting one possible future user experience for the Web, created by Adaptive Path as part of the Mozilla Labs concept browser series. Aurora explores new ways...
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http://adaptivepath.com/aurora
The what, when and why of wireframes
A great presentation covering the purpose of wireframes, the different methods available and their place in projects.
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http://userpathways.com/2008/06/26/the-what-when-and-why-of-wireframes/#comment-319
Patterns for Designing a Reputation System
"These patterns are somewhat different from the typical UI or rich-interaction type of pattern. They don’t tell you how to lay out a page or where to put an interactive widget. Instead,...
design pattern, information architecture, reputation, reputation systems, reuptations, social, user experience, web design, web development, yui, More... saved by: BaldTechnologist more details ...
http://yuiblog.com/blog/2008/06/10/patterns-for-designing-a-reputation-system
Information Design Patterns
A "collection of about 55 design patterns that describe functional aspects of graphic components for the display, behavior and user interaction of complex infographics."
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http://niceone.org/infodesign
Web Form Design: Filling In the Blanks (book illustrations) - a set on Flickr
All of the images from the book 'Web Form Design', posted on Flickr under a Creative Commons license
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosenfeldmedia/sets/72157604272550634
How to be a UX Team of One
"In this presentation, originally presented at the 2008 IA Summit, I share tips and techniques for generating a variety of design solutions, and show how they can be adapted for use in a ...
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http://www.ugleah.com/ux-team-of-one
Application Design Presentation: Garrett Dimon
So good.
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http://disk.garrettdimon.com/public/presentations/ApplicationDesign/ApplicationDesign.mov
We Tried To Warn You, Part 1 - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
I believe we all have a role to play in detecting, anticipating, and confronting the decisions that lead to breakdowns that threaten the organization’s very existence. In fact, the user...
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http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/we-tried-to-warn-you
Simunication
"A Simunication is a rapidly designed web application prototype designed online using Simunicator to enable users to visualize and test drive the application before the formal development...
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http://www.simunication.com
User Experience Pain Free
Amy Hoy's slide deck for her presentation "User Experience, pain-free".
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http://www.slideshare.net/RossC0/user-experience-pain-free
The Force Behind Star Wars: Turning Design Ideas into Reality » SlideShare
"...we’ll look at the making of Star Wars. We’ll look behind the scenes at what it took to get George Lucas’s space fantasy from script to screen. From assembling the right team to ...
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http://www.slideshare.net/stephenpa/the-force-behind-star-wars-turning-design-ideas-into-rea...
Collection: Search Patterns
A sandbox for collecting search examples, patterns, and anti-patterns.
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http://flickr.com/photos/morville/collections/72157603785835882
Configure a New Dell in 38 Easy Steps
Can’t afford that new MacBook Air? In just 38 easy steps you can get yourself setup with a new Dell laptop instead.
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http://losingcontext.com/blog/2008/01/configure_a_new_dell_in_38_easy_steps.php
Extreme User Research
'I call it "extreme user research." What’s so extreme about it? Well, it can be done in 30 minutes per interviewee, and it generates loads of useful data that will have a real impact on...
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http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/extreme-user
UI-patterns.com
User Interface Design Pattern Library. UI patterns for web designers. See examples and read rationale, solutions, and implementations for each pattern.
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http://ui-patterns.com
Building the UX Dreamteam
"Aimed at managers and those involved in the hiring decision process, this article looks at the facets of UX staff and offers ways to identify the skills and influence that will tune your...
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http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/building-the-ux
Superstarch
Marcus Nelson has a personal site. He designs. He's funny and dag gummit, people like him.
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http://www.superstarch.com
uiGarden.net
"uiGarden.net is a webzine dedicated to provide an opportunity for researchers and practitioners who work in the user interface design (including user experience, information architecture...
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http://www.uigarden.net/english
Interview questions for user experience design roles
"A set of questions and answers for selection panels to use when recruiting user experience design staff."
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http://www.deyalexander.com/resources/interview-uxd.html
Visualizing Fitts’s Law
"I thought it would be nice to go over Fitts’s Law, a staple in the HCI diet, with a few visuals to explain both the concept and why it’s ideas are a bit more complicated than most wo...
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http://particletree.com/features/visualizing-fittss-law
Satisfying UI Design is Often Illogical
A very interesting essay on the impact and need for UI changes and the expectations of and reactions to a market to those changes.
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http://theocacao.com/document.page/513
Prototype Composer
A free "Agile Application Prototyping Tool".
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http://www.serena.com/products/prototype-composer/home.html
IE to Eliminate the “Click to Activate” Requirement for Flash & ActiveX
While Microsoft will reverse the "Click to Activate" requirement built into current versions of Internet Explorer, the time line for implementation of the change leaves a lot to be desired.
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http://www.silverspider.com/2007/ie-to-eliminate-the-click-to-activate-requirement-for-flash...
IxDA Booklist
A great list of books about information and interaction design, usability, and user experience compiled by the Interaction Design Association.
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http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dcngdx9s_21gb36rn
Creating a Visual Language | GarrettDimon.com
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http://garrettdimon.com/archives/2007/10/19/creating_a_visual_language