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User Experience Arts:
There are few people out there offering the insight in the field of User Experience Design at the level of Steve Portigal. His latest article, "Poets, Priests, and Politicians" has been published in the Association for Computing Machinery's Interactions Magazine. Here is a tasty morsel from it: A few years ago, I took a cli (Read More)
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InfoDesign: Understanding by Design:
"The work is devoted to a problem of search of metaphors for interactive systems and systems based on Virtual Reality environments. The analysis of magic fairy tales as a source of metaphors for interface and virtual reality is offered. Some results of design process based on magic metaphors are considered." (Vladimir L. (Read More)
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Usability In The News:
UIE reviews top UIE articles in 2008 ..."Out of the 29 articles we published in 2008, these five articles werethe most discussed amongst our readers. While not everyone agreed with our viewpoints, they did agree these were important discussions to have.So, where do you fall? Do you agree with our viewpoints or do you think (Read More)
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the product usability weblog:
On the verge of 2009 I ran into this review of the Blaupunkt TravelPilot 700 in De Volkskrant (Dutch newspaper). I've translated part of it, because it very clearly illustrates that there can be a tremendous difference between what a product description promises and how that works out in reality. In the first part of the re (Read More)
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SensoryMetrics: re-inventing the User eXperience:
It seems rather wacky that some usability practionners are going to wacky extremes to quantify the “customer experience”. Here’s Foviance, a UK UX company that uses EEGs to assess customer reactions to brand appetite.Electroencephalographs were first used on humans by Hans Berger in 1920 in an effort to u (Read More)
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UsabilityNews: News (full):
The UXalliance set the standard for global usability research, testing and design through expanding partnerships and providing premium services in key markets worldwide. Having tested in more than 40 countries; the UXa ensures effective cross-cultural testing, efficient results and unparalleled service. At its most recent m (Read More)
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InfoDesign: Understanding by Design:
"Author and Happy Cog founder Jeffrey Zeldman answers the question: what does a web designer need most? Skills and knowledge of software, of course, but empathy - the ability to think about and empathize with your user - is by far the most important. Good useful education is hard to find, and within companies there is often (Read More)
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Graphic Design
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InfoDesign: Understanding by Design:
"Web analytics offer quantitative insight into user behaviour. They can be used to benchmark site performance and report to management. But, because web analytics data tells what people do on a web site, analytics data should be used to inform and direct more qualitative user research methods such as focus groups or usabili (Read More)
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