Category: User Experience

  • Rapid usability iterations

    Thomas Vander Wal has an interesting post about quick and intense usability iterations: I definitely see the strong advantages of the intense sessions mixed with the usual longer term development. Finally it seems a broad section of the development world is finally learning that the best way to build out stuff is to sit with…

  • LukeW's UX-role taxonomy (or 'Product Leads and Strategic Designers')

    Luke Wroblewski has some interesting thoughts about two orthogonal roles in the user-experience design process: Product Leads & Strategic Designers. I’m not sure whether I’d classify myself as one or the other, though. As director of strategy here at Extractable I’m clearly a strategic designer in this scheme, but I think I’d be equally interested…

  • Usability for CUs, a 12-Step Program

    David Rubini at online banking company Digital Insight has some words of wisdom for Web site operators of the Credit Union industry. The short of it is: 12 Steps to a User-Friendly Web site In order for an online banking to be successful, it must be effective, efficient and satisfying to the user. Developers and…

  • Rashmi Sinha's 'Designing for Social Sharing' slides

    I think Sinha summarized some of these thoughts on one of the tagging panels at the IA Summit this year. It looks like she has now developed this strand of thought into a focused presentation: (My slides for WebVisions: Designing for Social Sharing). I wonder if she has considered turning these thoughts into a book?

  • Visualizing flight patterns

    It’s interesting to see the slightly stylized map of continental US emerge from this data-driven map of Flight Patterns.

  • IDEA Conference launches a blog

    I don’t know if I can make it to the IDEA conference, but if not, I look forward to reading about it on the IDEA Conference Blog. (Self-plug: I hacked the site’s design into WordPress templates to get the blog working for Peterme.)