Review of fresh materials, July-August 2013
For three years now I have been publishing regular reviews of fresh articles on the topic of interfaces, new tools and collections of patterns, interesting cases and historical stories. From the tapes of several hundred thematic subscriptions, approximately 5% of the worthwhile publications are selected that are interesting to share. Previous materials: April 2010-June 2013 .
Gestures, Transitions, Animations @ Pinterest
I collected my Pinterest collection of interface animations, transitions and gestures to call them. Two hundred examples that are particularly relevant in the light of the transition of iOS from the decor to the motion-design. Other selections:
Hollow Icons
Aubrey Johnson criticizes the iOS7 interface icons for being harder to read. Many studies show that the thin contour is read by the user heavier than the solid form.
Designing the Perfect Hyperlink
Excellent article by John Macpherson on how to make links. It is important that they are sufficiently contrast for visibility, but do not interfere with reading. And a couple of discussions from domestic experts - https://medium.com/ui-in-russian/ecaccd209a54 and https://medium.com/interface-1/e6356aa5f023 .
A Guide To Designing Touch Keyboards (With Cheat Sheet)
Baymard Institute collected another article on the results of its extensive research of mobile online stores on input methods. It describes the ideal behavior of the telephone keypad, depending on the input data.
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Making Infield Form Labels Suck Less
Viget's Jackson Fox from the company offers a good solution for the form field names that are inside the field. He suggests showing them in a small pop-up layer above the field at the time of data entry. Sample code to implement .
The Four Mobile Traps (UserTesting, PDF)
Memo on the design and design of mobile applications from UserTesting, formed on the basis of user research and identified their key problems when working with interfaces for smartphones. Overview and translation into Russian .
Users Continue to Double-Click Online
Jamie Appleseed from Baymard Institute writes that in their research, about 10% of users out of habit use a double click on the web. This means that in the forms you need to provide click handlers for this case.
How to Recoup 30% of "Card Declined" Abandonments
Christian Holst offers an interesting way to increase conversion in online stores, which involves the processing of payment errors that occur due to the fault of the payment system. If payment is not possible, they recommend other payment methods to the user and in practice this increased sales by about 1%.
Planning for Responsive Layouts
Useful memo from Cooper Consulting on designing responsive websites and applications. She is accompanied by a review presentation on the topic .
The “Just Copy Amazon” Fallacy
Baymard Institute writes about why online shopping does not make sense to copy the interface of Amazon. This is also true for other types of products - companies are in different conditions, set different business tasks, have different sources of traffic, etc.
Here's the design of your gesture.
A good overview of the basic principles of creating gestures in mobile applications from Rani Molla.
Beyond the Beep
Unique blog Jordan Kolasinski, dedicated to the use of sounds in the interfaces.
How To Make Your Form Error Messages More Reassuring
A small reminder of errors in the interfaces. Why you should not use negative words and how to soften the message about data entry problems for the user.
5 Lessons Learned from 100,000 Usability Studies
UserTesting cites five particularly common interface problems based on several hundred thousand usability tests. These are multi-level cascading menus, categorization, site search, link detectability, and dullness.
The Ultimate Guide to Tablet Web Design (Ebook)
The free e-book "30 tips on web design for tablet devices" from the company Mobify, mainly for the basic and intermediate levels.
Introducing the Mental Notes Behavior Cube!
Stephen Anderson launches a new tool to help design interfaces that take into account behavioral patterns and user psychology. This is a playing cube in the continuation of its popular playing cards, which helps to look at the interaction from five sides - emotions, memory and perception, motivation, inspiration and frustration, decision making.
Emotional Design with ACT
The prolonged continuation of the excellent article Trevor van Gorp about the emotional component in the interfaces. He describes a very interesting concept of the product’s relationship with the user, tied to the message “useful, usable, desirable”. The first part . The author has published a book " Design for Emotion " on this topic.
Your app makes me fat
Kathy Sierra warns fans to insert unnecessarily complex and unusual interface solutions in order to realize themselves - they force the user to spend valuable cognitive resources. The article contains many references to studies that confirm its thesis.
On Perception and Reality - Q & A with Stephen Anderson
Interview Stephen Anderson, in which he affects the role of perception and expectations in the formation of user experiences. The same product can leave a different impression depending on how it was presented. Not only the content is important, but also its presentation.
Mapping Experiences
A great memo on experience mapping from Adaptive Path, describing the process and its main nuances. Direct link to PDF .
Kim Goodwin - Using Scenarios to Design Intuitive Experiences
Interview with Kim Goodwin on how to combine two close approaches - the characters and the customer journey maps. She will speak with a story on this topic at the User Interface 18 conference.
Dopamine and games - Liking, learning, or wanting to play?
Article Bill Lewis-Evans on the modern understanding of the role of dopamine by neurophysiologists. As well as how to use this knowledge to motivate users and players with rewards.
7 Signs You May Have A Problem Persona
Craig Tomlin lists the challenges in creating characters that greatly reduce the usefulness of this tool. In addition to relevance and representativeness, they should help in determining the required functionality, and the goals of specific characters should be evaluable and have metrics for their achievement.
Left and Right Brain User Personas
Kevin Simler's article on how to consider when designing characters with left-hemispheric and right-hemispheric thinking.
Interesting Facts Make Web Pages Compelling
Jakob Nielsen describes the findings of the NN / g studies among journalists. A brief summary of the facts on the website page makes it easier to work with information and increases its credibility.
Designer's Toolkit - Road Testing Prototype Tools
A small overview of prototyping tools from Emily Schwartzman from Cooper Consulting.
Mobile application design integration
My colleague Yevgeny Belyaev published two articles on the process of integrating the design of mobile applications and its features. In the first part, he describes how to work with Android, in the second - iOS and Windows Phone .
Composite - A new, delightful way of designing apps with Photoshop
The Composite application makes it easy to create interactive prototypes of mobile applications based on PSD layouts. It connects to Photoshop on a computer and in live mode shows all changes.
Style Guide Boilerplate
The Style Guide Boilerplate helps you create your own mini-Bootstrap. It allows you to describe the overall style of the project and the basic patterns, and then quickly assemble prototypes on this basis.
Interaction of Color by Josef Albers
The iconic textbook on color theory has become interactive and is available as an iPad application. True, only for accounts of the American AppStore.
Basiliq by Cloud Castle
Nice sketch template for designing interfaces in Photoshop from Cloud Castle. Objects vector.
Windows Phone AppStudio
The official online designer of generic applications for Windows Phone has been launched. It will help to outline a simple interface concept. A small description .
Specctr - Blueprints for the Web
An interesting tool for the transfer of guidelines for design layouts to developers. True, it works only with Adobe Illustrator and Fireworks.
ANTETYPE - Visual Responsive Application Design Prototyping Software
New visual prototyping tool for MacOS from the German company Ergosign. Recommended as a replacement for the outgoing Fireworks .
Mockup.io - The Great Tool for Manage and Present iOS App Mockups
The Mockup.io service makes it easier to work with mock-ups of mobile and tablet applications for iOS. It makes it easy to view them on the device and in visual binding on the web. Plus helps in communicating with customers and the development team.
Apptimize - A / B Testing for Android and iOS
The AppTimize service allows A / B testing in Android and iOS applications. It generates native code to display different screen versions. Another Watchsend product solves similar problems — records video works and helps to analyze them.
Seeing the Elephant - Defragmenting User Research
Lois Rosenfeld on why user research may be ineffective in large companies, despite the involvement of dozens of experienced professionals. And also about building an effective and balanced research system and the importance of building processes at the corporate level.
Remote Site Visits - How to Do the Field Research
Alison Kather from the Autodesk interface command tells how they conduct "remote field studies." Although it sounds like an oxymoron, in a limited way, this approach works for them.
Continuous Customer Feedback Programs
A series of articles by Marnie Andrews and April L. de Vries on how to organize the process of regularly collecting user feedback is very useful for product designers and managers. Part 2 and 3 .
How to Summarize & Display Survey Data
Excellent memo from Jeff Sauro on how to sum up and present the results of user research. It shows the submission for different data samples and helps to draw conclusions based on them.
Creating Better UX Research Videos
Jim Ross gives advice on how to prepare video clips with the cutting of interesting points from user research. Useful memo with an overview of the main nuances and pitfalls.
How to Benchmark Website Usability
Brief memo on the process, metrics and analysis of the results of comparative usability testing sites from Jeff Sauro.
Rating the Severity of Usability Problems
The lack of uniform criteria for assessing the seriousness of interface problems has always been a rather sensitive place in our profession. Most invented their own rating scale. The problem, assessed by one expert as “serious”, could well turn out to be a “slight defect” in the assessment of the other. Jeff Sauro reviews common methods and offers his own approach combining the strengths of other methods.
Measuring the Effectiveness of a Product Name
Jeff Sauro lists research and testing methods for product and company names. This is one of the few places where focus groups are useful.
5 Things to Remember When Conducting UX Research with Children
Catalina Naranjo-Bock gives you five tips for doing custom research with children. They affect the characteristics of recruiting, the choice of methods and location of the study, the participation of parents.
Method 23 of 100: RITE Method
Chauncey Wilson describes a method of rapid iterative testing and prototyping, which allows you to quickly modify the interface to solve obvious problems and get more recent results in the next session. And his colleague Veronica Meuris talks about the version of this method used by Google .
Best Practices for Small Sizes
Jeff Sauro gives a brief overview of what statistically reliable conclusions to draw based on a small sample of users.
Sins of a UX Researcher (Kyle Soucy presentation)
The presentation of Kyle Soucy about the 13 sins of UX-research. The most typical, gross and banal mistakes when conducting usability testing and interviewing users that can spoil the results and lead to wrong conclusions.
Connected ux
Aarron Walter talks about a breakthrough approach to collecting and analyzing any incoming information about the interface that they collect in MailChimp. This is a unique tool for getting product insights based on user knowledge and business impact. And a key element of the UX strategy. I was at his presentation about this knowledge base in Portuguese UXLx, broke templates. Notes on his presentation on this topic at An Event Apart.
Why Write Requirements
Scott Sehlhorst writes about when to describe the requirements for the product being created. They help to better understand the market, plan the launch, manage expectations, improve development efficiency, and not forget the purpose of creating a product.
Applying Lean UX
A small report from the Cooper Consulting team on how they participated in a lean UX project as part of a collaboration with one of the startups. A useful overview of the highlights of the methodology.
Building in-house innovation teams - Small, collocated, dedicated, self-sufficient
A series of articles by Jeff Gothelf, in which he describes the ideal modern product team. The first part describes the general requirements. In the second, he writes about her internal organization and processes .
How Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit Can Help Save Your Project (and Maybe Your Company)
UserFocus Philip Hodgson talks about how the designer and manager can reduce the number of erroneous decisions. He proposes to rely on the scientific method and lean-thinking - carefully check all the facts and incoming information, set and test hypotheses, measure key indicators and experiment, not be afraid of arguments and discussions.
Why Agile is so hard
The design and design of the agile process has long been mastered by most professionals. But if someone else thinks in the old way, Traci Lepore has an excellent analysis and refutation of misconceptions about this bundle.
UX Concepts and Practices That Wish Wish Just Go Away!
The UX Matters column on which practices in our specialty are morally obsolete or used incorrectly. Attempts to build an ideal process, investing efforts in visual polishing of yet untested solutions, imitating other companies, focus groups, terminological disputes, lorem ipsum, maniacal desire to reduce the number of clicks, division of the designer’s work by a lot of roles, ROI calculation.
Interaction design - what we need
HCI Professor Steve Whittaker from the University of California looks at the current state of the discipline of interaction design, as well as the necessary direction of its development as a process.
Tale Of A Top-10 App, part 1 - Idea And Design
A good case for creating a mobile application, describing the steps from the birth of the idea to the transition to development.
Email Marketing For Mobile App Creators
Ross Hodgekiss provides recommendations on how to effectively launch mobile apps. He says including what should be promotional sites and letters mailing.
Douglas Engelbart: The Hut Where the Internet Began
On July 2, 2013, Douglas Engelbart, the most important person in the history of interfaces and practical use of computers for mass tasks, did not become clear to the simple user: (In his legendary Mother of All Demos, he showed the concept of a GUI and raster image, Internet and hypertext, tools of collective work, mouse control. It’s a pity that many people only remembered him as the inventor of the mouse . Steve Wozniak said that we owe him everything that computers have now. RIP
Baer's Odyssey - Meet the serial inventor
The story of how Ralph H. Baer became the creator of the first mass game console Magnavox Odyssey. She entered the market in 1972 and laid the foundation for the gaming industry of home consoles.
Authentic design
Dmitry Fadeev described the history of authentic design in architecture, industrial products and interfaces. He explains why in each of these industries there was a fascination with ornamentalisation and excessive decorations, and that led to their abandonment in favor of a focus on the main functions of the product.
User Experience Is More Than Design - It's Strategy
Christopher Grant Ward on the general features and differences between UX and product management. UX professionals should try to move to a strategic level, rather than remain driven by performers.
Metric # 16, 17, 18 - Talk iOS7
Three issues of the Metrics podcast from the UI Design Group, in which we are discussing iOS7 with Plato Dneprovsky exactly one month after its announcement. Probably, we walked through all the sore points and possible development scenarios. Continuation and ending .
Kit fui
The company Noteloop launched a knowledge base on the interfaces of the future and fantasies about them. It contains general information about films, designers, creators, advertising, TV shows and concepts. Interview with Nathan Schedroff and Chris Noessel about their book Make It So on this topic.
Designing for Transparency and the Myth of the Modern Interface
The “No UI” movement proposes to abandon the visible user interface. But Thomas Wendt understands these concepts and says that the “invisible” interface does not have to be literally absent.
Tablet Usability - Findings from User Research
Jacob Nielsen describes two major threats to tablet usability. This is a flat design and poorly compressed desktop or stretched phone interfaces.
Designing for Google Glass - It's not what it appears
A small guide to the design and design of interfaces for Google Glass. Marvin Ammori, the author of the article, works at Silica Labs, which specializes in applications for such glasses.
Cameron Moll - Cross-Screen Experiences @ Breaking Development
Notes from Cameron Moll on complex user interactions with multiple devices. Many interesting theses on how they are built.
Like Magic - Designers Weave the Digital World Into Everyday Lives
A good overview of the near future profession of Wired with the design for a bunch of devices, often without a screen.
Content re-framing - A digital disruption survival kit
Bas Evers and Peter Bogaards from Infomaat give ten rules for modern content strategy.
Industry Contributors' Roles in Professional Practice
Nathaniel Davis describes the types of participants in the professional community and their contribution to the development of the discipline. Everyone can search for themselves and think about what to strive for.
Conferences Roundup - Upcoming Web Design Events (Sept. 2013 - Feb. 2014)
Smashing Magazine lists the main international UX conferences of the fall-winter 2013-2014 season. Minsk UX People also hit the list.
Breaking Development 2013
Video from the Breaking Development 2013 conference held July 22-24 in San Diego. Its theme this year is going beyond the desktop. Presentations include the presentation of Luke Wroblewski about a single design for the whole range of devices from smart watches to TVs, adaptive input of information, mobile content.
Fresh links can also be tracked in the Facebook group of the same name .
Patterns and Best Practices
Gestures, Transitions, Animations @ Pinterest
I collected my Pinterest collection of interface animations, transitions and gestures to call them. Two hundred examples that are particularly relevant in the light of the transition of iOS from the decor to the motion-design. Other selections:
- Applications for iOS7 .
- High-quality mobile applications in metro and flat design .
- Another couple of dozens of collections on the design and design of interfaces .
Hollow Icons
Aubrey Johnson criticizes the iOS7 interface icons for being harder to read. Many studies show that the thin contour is read by the user heavier than the solid form.
Designing the Perfect Hyperlink
Excellent article by John Macpherson on how to make links. It is important that they are sufficiently contrast for visibility, but do not interfere with reading. And a couple of discussions from domestic experts - https://medium.com/ui-in-russian/ecaccd209a54 and https://medium.com/interface-1/e6356aa5f023 .
A Guide To Designing Touch Keyboards (With Cheat Sheet)
Baymard Institute collected another article on the results of its extensive research of mobile online stores on input methods. It describes the ideal behavior of the telephone keypad, depending on the input data.
')
Making Infield Form Labels Suck Less
Viget's Jackson Fox from the company offers a good solution for the form field names that are inside the field. He suggests showing them in a small pop-up layer above the field at the time of data entry. Sample code to implement .
The Four Mobile Traps (UserTesting, PDF)
Memo on the design and design of mobile applications from UserTesting, formed on the basis of user research and identified their key problems when working with interfaces for smartphones. Overview and translation into Russian .
Users Continue to Double-Click Online
Jamie Appleseed from Baymard Institute writes that in their research, about 10% of users out of habit use a double click on the web. This means that in the forms you need to provide click handlers for this case.
How to Recoup 30% of "Card Declined" Abandonments
Christian Holst offers an interesting way to increase conversion in online stores, which involves the processing of payment errors that occur due to the fault of the payment system. If payment is not possible, they recommend other payment methods to the user and in practice this increased sales by about 1%.
Planning for Responsive Layouts
Useful memo from Cooper Consulting on designing responsive websites and applications. She is accompanied by a review presentation on the topic .
The “Just Copy Amazon” Fallacy
Baymard Institute writes about why online shopping does not make sense to copy the interface of Amazon. This is also true for other types of products - companies are in different conditions, set different business tasks, have different sources of traffic, etc.
Here's the design of your gesture.
A good overview of the basic principles of creating gestures in mobile applications from Rani Molla.
Beyond the Beep
Unique blog Jordan Kolasinski, dedicated to the use of sounds in the interfaces.
How To Make Your Form Error Messages More Reassuring
A small reminder of errors in the interfaces. Why you should not use negative words and how to soften the message about data entry problems for the user.
5 Lessons Learned from 100,000 Usability Studies
UserTesting cites five particularly common interface problems based on several hundred thousand usability tests. These are multi-level cascading menus, categorization, site search, link detectability, and dullness.
The Ultimate Guide to Tablet Web Design (Ebook)
The free e-book "30 tips on web design for tablet devices" from the company Mobify, mainly for the basic and intermediate levels.
Understanding the user
Introducing the Mental Notes Behavior Cube!
Stephen Anderson launches a new tool to help design interfaces that take into account behavioral patterns and user psychology. This is a playing cube in the continuation of its popular playing cards, which helps to look at the interaction from five sides - emotions, memory and perception, motivation, inspiration and frustration, decision making.
Emotional Design with ACT
The prolonged continuation of the excellent article Trevor van Gorp about the emotional component in the interfaces. He describes a very interesting concept of the product’s relationship with the user, tied to the message “useful, usable, desirable”. The first part . The author has published a book " Design for Emotion " on this topic.
Your app makes me fat
Kathy Sierra warns fans to insert unnecessarily complex and unusual interface solutions in order to realize themselves - they force the user to spend valuable cognitive resources. The article contains many references to studies that confirm its thesis.
On Perception and Reality - Q & A with Stephen Anderson
Interview Stephen Anderson, in which he affects the role of perception and expectations in the formation of user experiences. The same product can leave a different impression depending on how it was presented. Not only the content is important, but also its presentation.
Mapping Experiences
A great memo on experience mapping from Adaptive Path, describing the process and its main nuances. Direct link to PDF .
Kim Goodwin - Using Scenarios to Design Intuitive Experiences
Interview with Kim Goodwin on how to combine two close approaches - the characters and the customer journey maps. She will speak with a story on this topic at the User Interface 18 conference.
Dopamine and games - Liking, learning, or wanting to play?
Article Bill Lewis-Evans on the modern understanding of the role of dopamine by neurophysiologists. As well as how to use this knowledge to motivate users and players with rewards.
7 Signs You May Have A Problem Persona
Craig Tomlin lists the challenges in creating characters that greatly reduce the usefulness of this tool. In addition to relevance and representativeness, they should help in determining the required functionality, and the goals of specific characters should be evaluable and have metrics for their achievement.
Left and Right Brain User Personas
Kevin Simler's article on how to consider when designing characters with left-hemispheric and right-hemispheric thinking.
Interesting Facts Make Web Pages Compelling
Jakob Nielsen describes the findings of the NN / g studies among journalists. A brief summary of the facts on the website page makes it easier to work with information and increases its credibility.
Designing the structure and interface screens
Designer's Toolkit - Road Testing Prototype Tools
A small overview of prototyping tools from Emily Schwartzman from Cooper Consulting.
Mobile application design integration
My colleague Yevgeny Belyaev published two articles on the process of integrating the design of mobile applications and its features. In the first part, he describes how to work with Android, in the second - iOS and Windows Phone .
Composite - A new, delightful way of designing apps with Photoshop
The Composite application makes it easy to create interactive prototypes of mobile applications based on PSD layouts. It connects to Photoshop on a computer and in live mode shows all changes.
Style Guide Boilerplate
The Style Guide Boilerplate helps you create your own mini-Bootstrap. It allows you to describe the overall style of the project and the basic patterns, and then quickly assemble prototypes on this basis.
Interaction of Color by Josef Albers
The iconic textbook on color theory has become interactive and is available as an iPad application. True, only for accounts of the American AppStore.
Basiliq by Cloud Castle
Nice sketch template for designing interfaces in Photoshop from Cloud Castle. Objects vector.
Windows Phone AppStudio
The official online designer of generic applications for Windows Phone has been launched. It will help to outline a simple interface concept. A small description .
Specctr - Blueprints for the Web
An interesting tool for the transfer of guidelines for design layouts to developers. True, it works only with Adobe Illustrator and Fireworks.
ANTETYPE - Visual Responsive Application Design Prototyping Software
New visual prototyping tool for MacOS from the German company Ergosign. Recommended as a replacement for the outgoing Fireworks .
Mockup.io - The Great Tool for Manage and Present iOS App Mockups
The Mockup.io service makes it easier to work with mock-ups of mobile and tablet applications for iOS. It makes it easy to view them on the device and in visual binding on the web. Plus helps in communicating with customers and the development team.
User research and testing
Apptimize - A / B Testing for Android and iOS
The AppTimize service allows A / B testing in Android and iOS applications. It generates native code to display different screen versions. Another Watchsend product solves similar problems — records video works and helps to analyze them.
Seeing the Elephant - Defragmenting User Research
Lois Rosenfeld on why user research may be ineffective in large companies, despite the involvement of dozens of experienced professionals. And also about building an effective and balanced research system and the importance of building processes at the corporate level.
Remote Site Visits - How to Do the Field Research
Alison Kather from the Autodesk interface command tells how they conduct "remote field studies." Although it sounds like an oxymoron, in a limited way, this approach works for them.
Continuous Customer Feedback Programs
A series of articles by Marnie Andrews and April L. de Vries on how to organize the process of regularly collecting user feedback is very useful for product designers and managers. Part 2 and 3 .
How to Summarize & Display Survey Data
Excellent memo from Jeff Sauro on how to sum up and present the results of user research. It shows the submission for different data samples and helps to draw conclusions based on them.
Creating Better UX Research Videos
Jim Ross gives advice on how to prepare video clips with the cutting of interesting points from user research. Useful memo with an overview of the main nuances and pitfalls.
How to Benchmark Website Usability
Brief memo on the process, metrics and analysis of the results of comparative usability testing sites from Jeff Sauro.
Rating the Severity of Usability Problems
The lack of uniform criteria for assessing the seriousness of interface problems has always been a rather sensitive place in our profession. Most invented their own rating scale. The problem, assessed by one expert as “serious”, could well turn out to be a “slight defect” in the assessment of the other. Jeff Sauro reviews common methods and offers his own approach combining the strengths of other methods.
Measuring the Effectiveness of a Product Name
Jeff Sauro lists research and testing methods for product and company names. This is one of the few places where focus groups are useful.
5 Things to Remember When Conducting UX Research with Children
Catalina Naranjo-Bock gives you five tips for doing custom research with children. They affect the characteristics of recruiting, the choice of methods and location of the study, the participation of parents.
Method 23 of 100: RITE Method
Chauncey Wilson describes a method of rapid iterative testing and prototyping, which allows you to quickly modify the interface to solve obvious problems and get more recent results in the next session. And his colleague Veronica Meuris talks about the version of this method used by Google .
Best Practices for Small Sizes
Jeff Sauro gives a brief overview of what statistically reliable conclusions to draw based on a small sample of users.
Sins of a UX Researcher (Kyle Soucy presentation)
The presentation of Kyle Soucy about the 13 sins of UX-research. The most typical, gross and banal mistakes when conducting usability testing and interviewing users that can spoil the results and lead to wrong conclusions.
Management of interface projects and processes
Connected ux
Aarron Walter talks about a breakthrough approach to collecting and analyzing any incoming information about the interface that they collect in MailChimp. This is a unique tool for getting product insights based on user knowledge and business impact. And a key element of the UX strategy. I was at his presentation about this knowledge base in Portuguese UXLx, broke templates. Notes on his presentation on this topic at An Event Apart.
Why Write Requirements
Scott Sehlhorst writes about when to describe the requirements for the product being created. They help to better understand the market, plan the launch, manage expectations, improve development efficiency, and not forget the purpose of creating a product.
Applying Lean UX
A small report from the Cooper Consulting team on how they participated in a lean UX project as part of a collaboration with one of the startups. A useful overview of the highlights of the methodology.
Building in-house innovation teams - Small, collocated, dedicated, self-sufficient
A series of articles by Jeff Gothelf, in which he describes the ideal modern product team. The first part describes the general requirements. In the second, he writes about her internal organization and processes .
How Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit Can Help Save Your Project (and Maybe Your Company)
UserFocus Philip Hodgson talks about how the designer and manager can reduce the number of erroneous decisions. He proposes to rely on the scientific method and lean-thinking - carefully check all the facts and incoming information, set and test hypotheses, measure key indicators and experiment, not be afraid of arguments and discussions.
Why Agile is so hard
The design and design of the agile process has long been mastered by most professionals. But if someone else thinks in the old way, Traci Lepore has an excellent analysis and refutation of misconceptions about this bundle.
Methodologies, procedures, standards
UX Concepts and Practices That Wish Wish Just Go Away!
The UX Matters column on which practices in our specialty are morally obsolete or used incorrectly. Attempts to build an ideal process, investing efforts in visual polishing of yet untested solutions, imitating other companies, focus groups, terminological disputes, lorem ipsum, maniacal desire to reduce the number of clicks, division of the designer’s work by a lot of roles, ROI calculation.
Interaction design - what we need
HCI Professor Steve Whittaker from the University of California looks at the current state of the discipline of interaction design, as well as the necessary direction of its development as a process.
Cases
Tale Of A Top-10 App, part 1 - Idea And Design
A good case for creating a mobile application, describing the steps from the birth of the idea to the transition to development.
Email Marketing For Mobile App Creators
Ross Hodgekiss provides recommendations on how to effectively launch mobile apps. He says including what should be promotional sites and letters mailing.
Story
Douglas Engelbart: The Hut Where the Internet Began
On July 2, 2013, Douglas Engelbart, the most important person in the history of interfaces and practical use of computers for mass tasks, did not become clear to the simple user: (In his legendary Mother of All Demos, he showed the concept of a GUI and raster image, Internet and hypertext, tools of collective work, mouse control. It’s a pity that many people only remembered him as the inventor of the mouse . Steve Wozniak said that we owe him everything that computers have now. RIP
Baer's Odyssey - Meet the serial inventor
The story of how Ralph H. Baer became the creator of the first mass game console Magnavox Odyssey. She entered the market in 1972 and laid the foundation for the gaming industry of home consoles.
Authentic design
Dmitry Fadeev described the history of authentic design in architecture, industrial products and interfaces. He explains why in each of these industries there was a fascination with ornamentalisation and excessive decorations, and that led to their abandonment in favor of a focus on the main functions of the product.
Trends
User Experience Is More Than Design - It's Strategy
Christopher Grant Ward on the general features and differences between UX and product management. UX professionals should try to move to a strategic level, rather than remain driven by performers.
Metric # 16, 17, 18 - Talk iOS7
Three issues of the Metrics podcast from the UI Design Group, in which we are discussing iOS7 with Plato Dneprovsky exactly one month after its announcement. Probably, we walked through all the sore points and possible development scenarios. Continuation and ending .
Kit fui
The company Noteloop launched a knowledge base on the interfaces of the future and fantasies about them. It contains general information about films, designers, creators, advertising, TV shows and concepts. Interview with Nathan Schedroff and Chris Noessel about their book Make It So on this topic.
Designing for Transparency and the Myth of the Modern Interface
The “No UI” movement proposes to abandon the visible user interface. But Thomas Wendt understands these concepts and says that the “invisible” interface does not have to be literally absent.
Tablet Usability - Findings from User Research
Jacob Nielsen describes two major threats to tablet usability. This is a flat design and poorly compressed desktop or stretched phone interfaces.
Designing for Google Glass - It's not what it appears
A small guide to the design and design of interfaces for Google Glass. Marvin Ammori, the author of the article, works at Silica Labs, which specializes in applications for such glasses.
Cameron Moll - Cross-Screen Experiences @ Breaking Development
Notes from Cameron Moll on complex user interactions with multiple devices. Many interesting theses on how they are built.
Like Magic - Designers Weave the Digital World Into Everyday Lives
A good overview of the near future profession of Wired with the design for a bunch of devices, often without a screen.
Content re-framing - A digital disruption survival kit
Bas Evers and Peter Bogaards from Infomaat give ten rules for modern content strategy.
Professional Development
Industry Contributors' Roles in Professional Practice
Nathaniel Davis describes the types of participants in the professional community and their contribution to the development of the discipline. Everyone can search for themselves and think about what to strive for.
Conference proceedings
Conferences Roundup - Upcoming Web Design Events (Sept. 2013 - Feb. 2014)
Smashing Magazine lists the main international UX conferences of the fall-winter 2013-2014 season. Minsk UX People also hit the list.
Breaking Development 2013
Video from the Breaking Development 2013 conference held July 22-24 in San Diego. Its theme this year is going beyond the desktop. Presentations include the presentation of Luke Wroblewski about a single design for the whole range of devices from smart watches to TVs, adaptive input of information, mobile content.
Fresh links can also be tracked in the Facebook group of the same name .
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/192950/
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