December 2011
4 posts
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Smashing Magazine on Heuristic Website Review →
More information: http://www.deyalexander.com.au/resources/uxd/heuristic-evaluation.html
Dec 16th
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Sketching for UI Designers →
Dec 16th
Source is not easy to find...
Почему многие способные люди так и не добиваются успеха? Задавшись этим вопросом, Бенджамин Стайнс, спичрайтер президента Ричарда Никсона и сценарист Голливуда, на протяжении нескольких лет искал на него ответ. И нашел. В результате своих наблюдений он сформулировал 8 отличий успешных людей от закоренелых неудачников. Самообман. Неудачники постоянно обманываются на свой счет. Можно...
Dec 6th
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starting out: initial roles in the team
Idea Person Bring an idea to the team. Passionate about it… Unite group members around idea while being able to accept changes to initial idea. Developer Lead development of MVP and help grow the idea into a product. Designer Identify user needs and communicate design deliverables, such as specifications, storyboards, and illustrations. Develop new visual product identity, brand...
Dec 1st
November 2011
1 post
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Creating Personas
http://www.hceye.org/HCInsight-Nielsen.htm 10-step manual http://www.interactionbydesign.com/presentations/olsen_persona_toolkit.pdf Persona creation toolkit.
Nov 7th
October 2011
9 posts
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Showing timeline filters
Recently I was putting together a time line graph very similar to the one Google Analytics has, and it occurred to me that I have been reinventing the week every time I faced the same problem. So it is time to record the pattern and hopefully come back to it next time. So, the problem is very common: User needs to see data for the past month, past year, past week from the current day. What is the...
Oct 24th
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Rate that app!
Here is an article on iPhone app rating popup. http://mobileorchard.com/fighting-back-against-the-app-stores-negative-rating-bias/ Nothing really new here - ask every 10 days in the beginning, ask every month when your app is established. I am thinking on showing the popup on 3rd load at first, then every 10 days and hopefully the time will come when we will show it just once a month. Common...
Oct 19th
Like and Share
Call me old-fashioned, but I feel that usage of social plug-ins is a bit overrated. It is a known fact that in - say - wine store adding like button on a product page may increase sales by 40%, but you need to have a product to begin with. Building entire concept around likes is pointless. 
Oct 18th
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16 pixel body text as a new industry standard
Is not it interesting? http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/07/16-pixels-body-copy-anything-less-costly-mistake/
Oct 12th
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Sticky first page designs
http://www.wanderfly.com/ http://namesake.com/ http://www.mashape.com/ http://mailchimp.com/ http://www.inkling.com/ http://www.airbnb.com/ I will add explanation later.
Oct 7th
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Essential website usability tools  →
from Mashable
Oct 7th
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Great article on basics of virality in the social... →
This blog post by Yee Lee, that explains basics of the viral distribution in a very approachable manner.  Great stuff!
Oct 7th
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Some mechanisms that create viral loops  →
“Viral Loops typically center on: Contact Lists — e.g., inviting new people thru the process of finding/adding new contacts to a contact list Conversations — e.g., inviting new people by adding them to chats, events, groups, etc. Media — e.g., inviting new people by sharing media/content with them Incentives — e.g., inviting new people to unlock functional or financial incentives”
Oct 7th
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Oct 7th
September 2011
4 posts
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Sep 12th
Sep 6th
Sep 3rd
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July 2011
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Jul 31st
May 2011
1 post
Sign up made easy →
May 10th
January 2011
1 post
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Agile methodology in design →
This one-pager shows methodology I am following lately.
Jan 13th
November 2010
2 posts
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Visual designer from Twitter →
Nov 21st
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Nov 21st
May 2010
4 posts
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Visual Design Inspiration (from IxDA)
http://wellplacedpixels.com/ http://beautifulpixels.com/ http://www.tappgala.com/ http://landingpad.org/ http://app.itize.us/wp/ http://vimeo.com/xui/
May 29th
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Table UI Patterns - repost →
May 27th
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May 27th
Link →
http://ludmilapsyholog.livejournal.com/52399.html http://ludmilapsyholog.livejournal.com/52649.html http://ludmilapsyholog.livejournal.com/53418.html
May 22nd
April 2010
6 posts
Wishlists made easy. Just add a button on your... →
Apr 23rd
WatchWatch
How our lives will turn into games.
Apr 22nd
The Sixth Sense Technology →
Apr 12th
Landing page design and a/b testing →
Apr 10th
1 tag
Adobe Labs - Adobe Flash Catalyst →
Will be trying their Beta this week.
Apr 7th
[IxDA] [Workshop] May 6th. Remote UX Research
From email: Come hang with us in San Francisco or attend remotely on May 6th from 9am - 4:30pm PST. We’re holding our third Escape The Lab workshop [1] on remote UX research methods and tools. You get hands-on training with the latest moderated and un-moderated remote UX research tools. We’re the crazy authors of the new Rosenfeld book, Remote Research. ** Learn more on...
Apr 6th
March 2010
14 posts
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Academy: Prezi Workflow in 15 minutes on Prezi Mind maps combined with frame-by-frame presentation.
Mar 27th
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“Social tools succeed when they offer a user experience that transcends the...”
– Adrian Chan Read more: http://www.gravity7.com/blog/media/2009/06/if-you-think-twitter-is-weird-youre-not.html#ixzz0jL0DV65Z
Mar 27th
Dummies books about social networks. →
From Amazon
Mar 26th
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http://uxurls.com/ →
One IxDA member collected all his UX Design resources for the past 2 years. Lots of reading.
Mar 26th
52 Weeks of UX: Honest Interfaces →
“To be persuasive we must be believable; to be believable we must be credible; to be credible we must be truthful.”—Edward R. Murrow Users approach most products with an expectation of honesty. Things should do what they say, behave in an expected manner and reinforce their decision to use… Here is one of the answers to my justified design question.
Mar 26th
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Building IT Skills: 25 Guiding Principles for UX... →
Mar 26th
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52 weeks in UX design →
Mar 26th
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“I got home with my tongue under the arm, and I braised it”
– Julia Child
Mar 25th
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Amazing Stillife Paintings! →
Janet Rickus. Still life with Blue Ribbon - 2009 Oil on Canvas New generation of photorealist painters, who use photorealistic approach in the  context of traditional art.
Mar 25th
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Mar 25th
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The Million Follower Fallacy: Audience Size... →
Out of the 6 million active Twitter users, the researchers picked the top 100 users in each of the three categories [Number of followers, number of retweets, and number of mentions]. Due to the overlap, there were only 233 distinct users on these lists. These were dubbed the “all-time influentials.” Some of these accounts belonged to news organizations or celebs, but others were...
Mar 23rd
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The question of the day:
How annoying is annoying? There is no such a thing as GOOD DESIGN for me anymore. It got replaced with JUSTIFIED DESIGN. Are there cases where pushy interface with multiple pop-ups and instant calls to action similar to the infomercials on TV with “Call Now!” requests repeating every minute can be justified? I really want to know if the number of people who actually got sucked in...
Mar 23rd
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Guardian (UK) / social networking →
Mar 23rd
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WatchWatch
dtdigital: Joshua Porter shares his design and UX wisdom about making social websites work. Check out his site: bokardo.com
Mar 23rd
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