Fresh material review, October 2010
This material continues a series of monthly reviews of fresh articles on the topic of interfaces, new tools and collections of patterns, interesting cases and historical stories. Of the tapes of several hundred thematic subscriptions, approximately 5% of the worthwhile publications are selected that are interesting to share. Previous materials: April , May-June , July , August , September .
7 principles for building successful pages of tariff plans
A series of principles that will make the page of choosing a tariff plan more effective in sales. The article describes the principles of presenting information and pricing in general.
10 reasons for using color in design
Connie Malamed, author of the book Visual Language for Designers, describes the purpose of using color in design and interface. Each method is tied to a specific goal.
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What form fields reduce conversion?
Dan Zarella describes the results of researching online forms on more than 40,000 pages, during which input conversion reduction fields were found. Although the conclusions are rather brief, the information itself is more than useful.
Content Strategy Week by Johnny Holland Magazine
The online magazine Johnny Holland has published a series of articles on content strategy. Its five main themes are organization, integrity, understanding, strategic planning and evaluation.
8 principles for creating posters as the results of work on the interface
Jason Wishard describes eight principles for working on interface posters. This is a great way to visually present research results and a good final document for a client.
Professor Q. Bert - 6 game design lessons that will make non-gaming applications more interesting and improve the interface experience
An article by Michael Zuschlag in which he talks about gaming ways to involve the user in working with the product. The author describes 6 rules that will make applications and web services more engaging.
The art of skillful seduction (Stephen Anderson presentation)
Excellent presentation of Stephen Anderson, in which he shows a lot of interesting examples of the presentation of information, forms and other interface elements in an engaging and emotional way.
What is “user experience design”? Overview, tools and useful materials
Yes, this is another review on "what is user experience." But this is the best among such reviews, so if there is a need to explain this to any of your friends or colleagues, this article is perfect.
Mobile OS MeeGo - templates, stencils and guidelines
A collection of templates, stencils and guidelines for the mobile OS MeeGo from Nokia and Intel. She has just started to gather, but over time will grow into the same voluminous selection, as well as on other platforms - http://friendfeed.com/jvetrau/3876c515 .
Mobile OS Bada - templates, stencils and guidelines
A collection of templates, stencils and guidelines for the mobile OS Bada from Samsung. She has just started to gather, but over time will grow into the same voluminous selection, as well as on other platforms - http://friendfeed.com/jvetrau/3876c515 .
Free Black and White Pictograms for Designers and Designers
Excellent set of black and white icons, which is ideal for use in wireframes. Especially good is that they are presented in two versions - black and white and white and black.
iPad: scrolling or slides?
Oliver Reichenstein from Information Architects describes the two basic principles of content delivery — scrolling and slide presentation. He describes the background history of holivars on this topic and gives advice on when and what to use.
Placement of field names in Austrian forms
Attention: it is necessary to be skeptical about the material of this article - it is difficult to assess the representativeness of the study. Still, the question itself is more than interesting - how convenient and understandable is the arrangement of the names of the form fields under them?
Marriage of different religions: UX design meets agile development
Larry Constantine describes the good and bad work scenarios of the designer and designer as part of a flexible development process. In his opinion, one has to change mainly to an interface specialist, adapting to the existing process. The second part of the article is http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1636984 .
How TheLadders.com integrated UX and agile
The recruiting service design team TheLadders.com talks about how the process of working on the interface has changed as part of the transition to flexible development methods. The article is especially good because the authors describe the whole way of the formation of a new process, including all the failures.
How to feel the complex interface?
The story of how Ford collaborated with the IDEO design agency to bring interface ideas from modern smartphones to car dashboards. The first results of this work will be available on the market in 2011.
Understandable reports and critical thinking - why the user experience discipline must remember its roots in psychology
Whitney Hess is an excellent critical article that warns designers and designers of blindly believing in "research and usability tests." She talks about what you need to know about the methodology and representativeness of such research.
Invisible restrictions
Alexander Dawson offers his own way of classifying the accessibility of products. Its classification is good because it includes not only the physical limitations of users.
Study: How effective is the use of animation in showing trends?
Enrico Bertini, from the online magazine Information Aesthetics, describes the results of a Microsoft study on the effectiveness of using animation in data visualization. And although one study cannot cover such a complex topic, it contains evidence of the effectiveness of the approach.
Everyone forgets about memory
Article Jeremy Britton and Dmitry Dragilev, which describes the principle of human memory and its impact on working with interfaces. The authors talk about what people remember and how to use these features.
Joystick Evolution - Patterns and Innovations in Game Controllers
Steve Cable from CXPartners has prepared a large-scale poster that exhaustively tells the story of the development of game controllers. The accompanying article has some interesting insights.
Mobile first ( Luke Wroblewski presentation)
One of Luke Wroblewski’s speeches on “First Design for Mobile,” recorded during LinkedIn Tech Talks. He also wrote a review article on this topic for TechRadar.
Design for Mobile 2010
Reports, presentations, notes and videos from the third conference Design for Mobile 2010, held on September 20-24 in Chicago.
IDEA 2010
Reports, presentations, notes and videos from the fifth IDEA 2010 conference, which took place from September 30 to October 2 in Paris.
User Experience Russia 2010
Presentations and videos from the fourth User Experience Russia 2010 conference, held on October 6-8 in Moscow.
Warmgun 2010
Reports, presentations, notes and videos from the first Warmgun 2010 conference, held on October 8 in San Francisco.
Fresh links can also be tracked in the Friendfeed User Experience ribbon .
PS I tried to translate the names into Russian, as requested in the comments to the previous release, but it does not look very good, and the comments to the link are duplicated.
Methods and practices
7 principles for building successful pages of tariff plans
A series of principles that will make the page of choosing a tariff plan more effective in sales. The article describes the principles of presenting information and pricing in general.
10 reasons for using color in design
Connie Malamed, author of the book Visual Language for Designers, describes the purpose of using color in design and interface. Each method is tied to a specific goal.
')
What form fields reduce conversion?
Dan Zarella describes the results of researching online forms on more than 40,000 pages, during which input conversion reduction fields were found. Although the conclusions are rather brief, the information itself is more than useful.
Content Strategy Week by Johnny Holland Magazine
The online magazine Johnny Holland has published a series of articles on content strategy. Its five main themes are organization, integrity, understanding, strategic planning and evaluation.
8 principles for creating posters as the results of work on the interface
Jason Wishard describes eight principles for working on interface posters. This is a great way to visually present research results and a good final document for a client.
Professor Q. Bert - 6 game design lessons that will make non-gaming applications more interesting and improve the interface experience
An article by Michael Zuschlag in which he talks about gaming ways to involve the user in working with the product. The author describes 6 rules that will make applications and web services more engaging.
The art of skillful seduction (Stephen Anderson presentation)
Excellent presentation of Stephen Anderson, in which he shows a lot of interesting examples of the presentation of information, forms and other interface elements in an engaging and emotional way.
What is “user experience design”? Overview, tools and useful materials
Yes, this is another review on "what is user experience." But this is the best among such reviews, so if there is a need to explain this to any of your friends or colleagues, this article is perfect.
Instruments
Mobile OS MeeGo - templates, stencils and guidelines
A collection of templates, stencils and guidelines for the mobile OS MeeGo from Nokia and Intel. She has just started to gather, but over time will grow into the same voluminous selection, as well as on other platforms - http://friendfeed.com/jvetrau/3876c515 .
Mobile OS Bada - templates, stencils and guidelines
A collection of templates, stencils and guidelines for the mobile OS Bada from Samsung. She has just started to gather, but over time will grow into the same voluminous selection, as well as on other platforms - http://friendfeed.com/jvetrau/3876c515 .
Free Black and White Pictograms for Designers and Designers
Excellent set of black and white icons, which is ideal for use in wireframes. Especially good is that they are presented in two versions - black and white and white and black.
Patterns
iPad: scrolling or slides?
Oliver Reichenstein from Information Architects describes the two basic principles of content delivery — scrolling and slide presentation. He describes the background history of holivars on this topic and gives advice on when and what to use.
Placement of field names in Austrian forms
Attention: it is necessary to be skeptical about the material of this article - it is difficult to assess the representativeness of the study. Still, the question itself is more than interesting - how convenient and understandable is the arrangement of the names of the form fields under them?
Process
Marriage of different religions: UX design meets agile development
Larry Constantine describes the good and bad work scenarios of the designer and designer as part of a flexible development process. In his opinion, one has to change mainly to an interface specialist, adapting to the existing process. The second part of the article is http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1636984 .
Cases
How TheLadders.com integrated UX and agile
The recruiting service design team TheLadders.com talks about how the process of working on the interface has changed as part of the transition to flexible development methods. The article is especially good because the authors describe the whole way of the formation of a new process, including all the failures.
How to feel the complex interface?
The story of how Ford collaborated with the IDEO design agency to bring interface ideas from modern smartphones to car dashboards. The first results of this work will be available on the market in 2011.
Theory
Understandable reports and critical thinking - why the user experience discipline must remember its roots in psychology
Whitney Hess is an excellent critical article that warns designers and designers of blindly believing in "research and usability tests." She talks about what you need to know about the methodology and representativeness of such research.
Invisible restrictions
Alexander Dawson offers his own way of classifying the accessibility of products. Its classification is good because it includes not only the physical limitations of users.
Study: How effective is the use of animation in showing trends?
Enrico Bertini, from the online magazine Information Aesthetics, describes the results of a Microsoft study on the effectiveness of using animation in data visualization. And although one study cannot cover such a complex topic, it contains evidence of the effectiveness of the approach.
Everyone forgets about memory
Article Jeremy Britton and Dmitry Dragilev, which describes the principle of human memory and its impact on working with interfaces. The authors talk about what people remember and how to use these features.
Story
Joystick Evolution - Patterns and Innovations in Game Controllers
Steve Cable from CXPartners has prepared a large-scale poster that exhaustively tells the story of the development of game controllers. The accompanying article has some interesting insights.
Trends
Mobile first ( Luke Wroblewski presentation)
One of Luke Wroblewski’s speeches on “First Design for Mobile,” recorded during LinkedIn Tech Talks. He also wrote a review article on this topic for TechRadar.
Conference proceedings
Design for Mobile 2010
Reports, presentations, notes and videos from the third conference Design for Mobile 2010, held on September 20-24 in Chicago.
IDEA 2010
Reports, presentations, notes and videos from the fifth IDEA 2010 conference, which took place from September 30 to October 2 in Paris.
User Experience Russia 2010
Presentations and videos from the fourth User Experience Russia 2010 conference, held on October 6-8 in Moscow.
Warmgun 2010
Reports, presentations, notes and videos from the first Warmgun 2010 conference, held on October 8 in San Francisco.
Fresh links can also be tracked in the Friendfeed User Experience ribbon .
PS I tried to translate the names into Russian, as requested in the comments to the previous release, but it does not look very good, and the comments to the link are duplicated.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/108370/
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