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Saturday, October 25, 2008

eye candy is business requirement


Eye Candy IS A Critical Business Requirement

From: stephenpa, 11 months ago





Visual design is more than styling. It is function. And not only because it communicates, but also because it makes us feel. And between feeling and communication, people find things easier to use.


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Destroy the web 2.0 look


FOWD November 2007

From: elliotjaystocks, 11 months ago


FOWD November 2007
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'Destroy The Web 2.0 Look': a presentation by Elliot Jay Stocks at Future of Web Design, November 2007


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Social interaction design -- Digg


Designing for Interaction

From: dburka, 1 month ago





Creating a social site sounds great until you get around to actually designing that ambiguous ‘social’ part that’s central to its success. Enabling and encouraging your community to participate is a complex challenge that only gets more sophisticated as the populace on your site grows. In many critical areas, you’ll come up against the curious juxtapositions of designing social interactions. Encouraging positive activities while discouraging negative behaviors, satisfying power users while catering to lurkers, ensuring privacy while fostering openness, and creating pathways while remaining open to unexpected developments, are just some of the hurdles you’re likely to face as you design your site.

Using case studies from Digg, Pownce, and other social communities, we’ll examine how to balance these and other concerns from a user interface design perspective. In particular, mistakes will be analyzed and success stories will be dissected to help explain how successful social interactions can be created and pitfalls can be avoided.


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Thursday, February 21, 2008

user research


DIY User Research (LondonBarCamp3)


From: leisa, 2 months ago





a rough and ready guide to doing your own user research (without once saying 'it depends')


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