Blogs
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Aarhus and methods: post-visit reflections
Deborah Tatar Posted: Thu, February 20, 2014 - 10:51:26
One day, when I was young in Boston, a friend and I were discussing how people cross streets. I described what I thought of as the urban method, a negotiation…
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Implicit interaction design
Mikael Wiberg Posted: Wed, February 19, 2014 - 10:41:19
I guess it’s not an understatement to say that 99.9% of all interaction design projects still end up as screen-based solutions in one form or another. Most of these solutions…
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Everywhere you go there you are
Monica Granfield Posted: Tue, February 11, 2014 - 1:20:39
Lately I have been giving a good deal of thought to consistency in presentation within the UI and how this affects the overall end user experience.I find that the online…
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Metablog: The decline of discussion
Jonathan Grudin Posted: Tue, February 11, 2014 - 1:06:58
Is our changing relationship to information rendering discussion obsolete? More information of interest is online than I can consume. Pointers may be enough. Today I may need help or time…
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I’ve heard the future of interaction
Aaron Marcus Posted: Tue, February 11, 2014 - 12:55:58
Recently, I watched, or rather, more specifically, heard, the movie Her, which features Joaquin Phoenix in the lead role of Theodore Twombly (now, there is an introvert’s name), a somewhat…
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Help me, please: User testing, automating customer service, and treating people nicely
Ashley Karr Posted: Tue, February 11, 2014 - 12:46:24
Take away: Designs that automate customer service work best when they are based upon the Golden Rule. In other words, treat your users as you would like to be treated.…
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A new forum is launched: The Business of UX
Daniel Rosenberg Posted: Fri, January 17, 2014 - 10:41:12
I am pleased to announce that the new Interactions forum dedicated to the business of UX has just launched. Please take a look at it if you don’t subscribe to…
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Mobile usability findings for 2013
Ashley Karr Posted: Wed, January 15, 2014 - 12:55:28
Take away: The four best practices for designing mobile sites and applications are to make the interfaces and interactions as simple, clear, obvious, and consistent as possible. In 2013, I…
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Designing the cognitive future, part iii: attention
Juan Hourcade Posted: Mon, January 13, 2014 - 12:37:38
In twoprevious postings, I began discussing how interactive technologies are affecting cognitive processes, and how they may do so in the future. I already discussed perception and memory. In this…
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Pushing pixels (and tools) : The internal dialogue of craft
Uday Gajendar Posted: Fri, January 10, 2014 - 10:40:56
Even as a principal designer directing design strategy for projects, I still sometimes go deep into the pixels. When I do, I use a complex tool like Adobe Fireworks or…
