The Future of Experience Design - MIMA 2012

The Future of Experience Design - MIMA 2012 from Samantha Starmer

5D | The Future of Immersive Design

5D: The Future of Immersive Design is a global community of multi-disciplinary creators that are fascinated by a shared pursuit of worldbuilding for the sake of generating new storytelling experiences. The process that is being developed is one that begins with the construction of a world. Before a specific linear narrative is laid down, a coherent, logic-driven, integrated world is created for that story to take place in. Complete with an ecosystem, a world of characters and some general governing laws, this place of fiction becomes the platform for stories to unfold.

5D | The Future of Immersive Design

The Psychologist’s View of UX Design | UX Magazine

The Psychologist’s View of UX Design | UX Magazine

Seven Guidelines For Designing High-Performance Mobile User Experiences - Smashing Magazine

A positive first impression is essential to relationships. People look for trust and integrity, and they expect subsequent encounters to reflect and reinforce their first impression. The same principles apply to brands and their products. Design plays an important role in building lasting relationships with end users and, thus, in supporting the brand’s promise.

read more: Seven Guidelines For Designing High-Performance Mobile User Experiences - Smashing Magazine

Flow: Task Management and Online Collaboration for Teams

Flow is a task management app that lets you organize your entire life.

Work from anywhere
Your browser
From the office or the airport, Flow’s there with you. And because your tasks are secure online, you never have to worry about syncing.

Your iPhone
Check off errands as they’re completed and collaborate with your team on the go with our free iPhone app. Available on the App Store.

Your email
Email your tasks to tasks@getflow.com and we'll handle the rest. You can even leave notes and delegate tasks to your team.

Your Mac
Quickly create and delegate tasks from your desktop using our companion Mac app. Set a global hotkey and fire off tasks as they come. Download the beta here.


Flow: Task Management and Online Collaboration for Teams

Andreas Echterhoff about User Experience Design

Flipboard from Marcus Bösch on Vimeo.

Read more: It's the User Experience, Stupid!

New Books

- Rosenfeld Media - Storytelling for User Experience Book Site

- Storytelling for User Experience, CRAFTING STORIES FOR BETTER DESIGN. Rosenfeld Media

- Designing for the Digital Age: How to Create Human-Centered Products and Services

- Emergenz digitaler Öffentlichkeiten: Die Sozialen Medien im Web 2.0

T Shaped Creativity

Cool Visual Thinking Archive: T Shaped Creativity | Flickr - Fotosharing!

Debunking User Experience

We’re giving away a copy of ”Don’t Make Me Think!” and “Rocket Surgery Made Easy.” To two randomly chosen commenters, it’ll be the winners’ choice. All you have to do to enter is leave a comment about what your definition of User Experience is or if Dean’s article changed your perspective on UX at all. We’ll randomly pick from the comments in a week’s time.

Debunking User Experience | Unmatched Style

Free Book: UX Storytellers

UX Storytellers
UX Storytellers: UX Storytellers - Connecting the Dots

The Spectrum of User Experience (1)

Information Architects – The Spectrum of User Experience (1): "The Spectrum of User Experience"

Creating a Culture of UX

Creating a Culture of UX

View more presentations from Whitney Hess.

User Experience Design at Mozilla

Welcome to my blog. I'm a Principal Designer on Firefox, helping to develop its interactive design, visual design, and overall vision. On this blog you can find information about many of the user facing features being developed for future versions of Firefox.

Alex Faaborg

What you need to know about Eye Tracking

What you need to know about Eye Tracking (New version)

View more presentations from Harry Brignull.

Selling UX with Daniel Szuc

Selling UX with Daniel Szuc

View more presentations from Optimal Usability.

Bounceapp

Leave Feedback on any Page: Bounce – A fun and easy way to share ideas on a website

Usability: Der Kampf mit unhöflichen Geräten

Rolf Molich, ein Weggefährte des Usability-Gurus Jakob Nielsen, findet, dass man durchaus menschliche Maßstäbe an das Verhalten von Maschinen anlegen sollte. Bestimmte Fahrkartenautomaten beispielsweise findet der dänische Experte regelrecht "unverschämt". ORF.at sprach mit Molich über seine Lieblingswebsites, gekränkte Produktentwickler und "Featuritis" bei Mobiltelefonen.

Interview: futurezone.ORF.at

Making a User Experience Strategy Tangible

User Experience Design begins with the definition of a user experience strategy, or a shared holistic vision for what a product or service will be from the end user’s perspective. Before a design team can start creating a product or service’s interface and defining specific capabilities, the team needs to evaluate ideas to determine what will meet both user and business goals most effectively. Defining a user experience strategy up front is critical to making sure that all design decisions map back to a vision that is supported by research and that has defined success criteria.

Read on: Making a User Experience Strategy Tangible | inspireUX - User Experience quotes and articles to inspire and connect the UX community

Cursor Affordances

Some time ago I’ve started a little quick and dirty Javascript and CSS experiment to help indicate more advanced mouse interactions in a visual way. By more advanced interactions I mean showing that things like double clicks, right clicks, and wheel scrolls could be performed on different UI elements. The left click is still perhaps the central mouse interaction that takes centre stage on the desktop, and I’ve seen users struggle to realize when additional interactions are possible. This I think is largely due to a lack of cues. Hence, these little cursor accordances aim to provide additional contextual symbols that float alongside the cursor. The other thing I wanted to achieve with this was to be able to display multiple cues at the same time (let’s say that both a left and a right click is possible on an element). So the code is super rough but here is a start. Basically numerous CSS classes are attached to HTML elements which then cause proper images to be overlaid near the cursor. Thoughts? Potential open source project?

Wireframes Magazine - Cursor Affordances

Critique a Web Page in 30 Seconds or Less

When you're ready to launch your website, you'll want to give visitors the best user experience possible. Learning to evaluate a website effectively is part art and part science, but it's a skill that can be learned. To develop an eye for what works on a website and what doesn't, there are few simple techniques that help you critique your website in 30 seconds or less.

- Note where your eyes go first
- Squint your eyes
- Scan the page diagonally from top left to bottom right
- The "Five Things" trick
- Find the intersections

Read more: ZURB – Critique a Web Page in 30 Seconds or Less