V2 #29 02/17/2011
Interact’s UX Digest is our monthly(ish) digest of UX links, notes and other cool resources and events that attracted our attention out in the blogosphere and interwebs. We also tweet daily on hot UX topics. Follow us on twitter or friend us on facebook,
This time in the UX Digest…
trends…
We started a new tradition to look at UX trends especially in the seattle area sponsored by a local futurist Ryan Lane
* still lots of hype about kinect and building jesture based non touch User Experiences (UX) but much of it seems to be just hype, however there is a growing about of real stuff happening with working kinect drivers and rumors of a Kinect SDK from Microsoft… more to come we think.
* all the hype around HTML 5 seems to have put the damper a bit on flash and silverlight in the seattle market but we don’t think this is a bad thing. Being able to do the basics in standard way of delivering content is what HTML has always been about and with HTML 5 we don’t need RIA plugins to pick up the slack but we still use them for what they were designed to do meaning to take UX to the next level in the browser.
#UX Links…
Why Customers Abandon Their Shopping Cart
http://baymard.com/blog/cart-abandonment
The UX of Data
http://uxmag.com/technology/the-ux-of-data
User Experience and Experience Design
http://www.interaction-design.org/encyclopedia/user_experience_and_experience_design.html
I’m Feeling Lucky, But You’re A Different Story
http://www.socialmediaexplorer.com/social-media-measurement/im-feeling-lucky-but-youre-a-different-story/
Missing vowels since before it was cool.
http://mrgan.tumblr.com/post/3241126895/what-does-the-user-see
UX Designer as Product Owner
http://www.jeffgothelf.com/blog/ux-designer-as-product-owner/
Design with Intent: 101 Patterns for Influencing Behavior Through Design
http://www.danlockton.com/dwi/Main_Page
Permanent Link: Tips for Recruiting Research Participants
http://www.uie.com/brainsparks/2011/02/07/tips-for-recruiting-research-participants/
17 Ways to Simplify ‘Sign Up’
http://baymard.com/blog/simplifying-sign-up
Did experience design cause America’s decline?
http://goodexperience.com/2011/02/did-experience-design.php
Bing Battles Google by Re-Designing Search http://www.fastcompany.com/1728528/can-design-make-bing-the-apple-of-search
Visualizing Google’s Dominance Of Mobile Advertising
http://searchengineland.com/picturing-googles-dominance-of-mobile-advertising-65114
Presenting Design Like You Get Paid For It
http://weblog.muledesign.com/2010/08/presenting_design_like_you_get.php
Design Resources for Windows Phone
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff637515(v=vs.92).aspx
Expert usability review vs. usability testing
http://www.webcredible.co.uk/user-friendly-resources/web-usability/website-review.shtml
User-Led Innovation Can’t Create Breakthroughs; Just Ask Apple and Ikea
http://www.fastcodesign.com/1663220/user-led-innovation-cant-create-breakthroughs-just-ask-apple-and-ikea
Type study: An all CSS button
http://blog.typekit.com/2011/02/10/type-study-an-all-css-button/
Method 5 of 100: Metaphor Brainstorming
http://dux.typepad.com/dux/2011/02/this-is-the-5th-in-a-series-of-100-short-articles-about-ux-design-and-evaluation-methods-todays-method-is-called-metaphor.html
The Roadmap for Day Software and LiveCycle ES – a Focus on UX
http://java.dzone.com/articles/roadmap-day-software-and
Internet Package Design
http://uxmag.com/design/internet-package-design
Beyond the Demonisation of Design and Narrow Arrogant Human-Centredness
http://designsituations.blogspot.com/2010/08/beyond-demonisation-of-design-and.html
What Makes The Most Valuable UX Person In The World?
http://www.uie.com/brainsparks/2011/02/16/what-makes-the-most-valuable-ux-person-in-the-world/
#in other news
A new UI/Wireframing tool was released for Windows Phone 7 called ‘Sketchflow for Phone 7′ if you have a phone 7 you can download the app using this deeplink: http://social.zune.net/redirect?type=phoneApp&id=3589ba86-c133-e011-854c-00237de2db9e
