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Photography and Photo Editing Cheatsheets 11 Mar 2010, 2:59 pm
Even if you are a seasoned professional photographer the chances are you will from time to time need one or maybe all of these cheat-sheets, whether it be to remember a shortcut key when photo editing. […]
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15 Desktop 11 Mar 2010, 2:20 pm
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15 Desktop & Online Wireframing Tools 11 Mar 2010, 2:00 pm
Engineered to make the design process as intuitive as possible, wireframing tools allow designers to construct visual representations of their interface before development begins. In this post, Tom Wa. […]
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Marco.org – Overdoing the interface metaphor 11 Mar 2010, 1:54 pm
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Win a Web or Logo Template from TemplateWire 11 Mar 2010, 12:14 pm
In this giveaway, five readers will get a chance to win an XTHML/CSS, Flash, or logo template of their choice from TemplateWire.com.
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Forms On Mobile Devices: Modern Solutions – Smashing Magazine 11 Mar 2010, 12:11 pm
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Elegant technologies for complex lives 11 Mar 2010, 11:45 am
The Socio-Digital Systems (SDS) group of Microsoft Research aims to use an understanding of human values to help to change the technological landscape in the 21st century. “Beyond making us all more. […]
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BBC on the future of the internet 11 Mar 2010, 10:42 am
Twenty years after the emergence of the world wide web, Rory Cellan-Jones of the BBC World Service’s Discovery series looks at the science driving its third decade. Web 3.0 promises a world where pe. […]
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Could Pivot be a new cure for information overload? 11 Mar 2010, 10:10 am
After watching a TED talk by Gary Flake about Microsoft Live Labs’ Pivot I felt compelled to download it and test it out. Pivot is a new tool (currently only available to PC users) which aims to. […]
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Visualizing the Issues behind Food Dependence: How to Feed the World? 11 Mar 2010, 9:44 am
If you appreciated the depth and level of detail of the now classic infographically animated The Credit of Crisis – Visualized, you will probably also like the following! “How to Feed the World?” [dv. […]
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IBM’s hottest new cell phone market: senior citizens and the illiterate 11 Mar 2010, 9:17 am
Among cell-phone users in developed countries, IBM is betting the market with the biggest growth potential is…people over the age of 65. Fast Company reports. IBM’s two-year research program, whic. […]
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Flexible Credit Card Inputs 11 Mar 2010, 8:00 am
When a specific format for input is required, the Web form responsible for gathering that input can do one of three things:Provide some basic help text next to the input field to let people know how t. […]
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The hygiene factor of usability 11 Mar 2010, 2:32 am
“Old-school usability espouses the idea that user activities are onerous tasks that they want to get out of the way as soon as possible. While this is true in some cases, usability is now widely un. […]
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2 lovely redesigns: Chiquita bananas & the Heinz ketchup packet 10 Mar 2010, 11:52 pm
Both of these are a few weeks old but I still wanted to call them out because I like them so much, for different reasons. Chiquita Bananas: A Beautiful Brand Refresh What I love about this was that th. […]
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EverydayUX morsels (March 7th – March 10th) 10 Mar 2010, 9:00 pm
Made by Many goes SouthWestAwesome real-time visualization of the @madebymany team at SXSW 2010. Target launches first scannable mobile coupon program, frugalistas going wild — EngadgetThe implement. […]
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Made by Many goes SouthWest 10 Mar 2010, 8:47 pm
Sweet tweets. The Made by Many crew shows what they’re up to at SXSW with this constantly updating status page. Love the fresh/stale indicator. Via @arainert http://sxsw.madebymany.co.uk/
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The User Experience Workshop 10 Mar 2010, 7:29 pm
For the first time in history at SXSW Interactive they are hosting a series of workshops. There are workshops on content, design process, wireframing, and you guessed it, user experience. These ar. […]
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Guiding Principles for UX Designers | UX Magazine 10 Mar 2010, 7:13 pm
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OpenHallway: Unmoderated Remote Usability Testing with Screen Recording 10 Mar 2010, 6:26 pm
Inspired by the 5 second test, a lot web-based services have cropped up to support remote usability testing. In the past few years, I’ve been experimenting with some of these to conduct super small,. […]
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Mindspace: Influencing behaviour through public policy 10 Mar 2010, 5:20 pm
New insights from science and behaviour change could lead to significantly improved outcomes, and at a lower cost, than the way many conventional policy tools are used, argues the UK Government. MINDS. […]
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Excellent talk from Tom Peters on Education, Over-Medication, Creativity and Hiring 10 Mar 2010, 5:18 pm
Some really great bits in here: “We nail facts into students’ heads and there’s nothing wrong with it if the goal is to employ someone for 40 years in a Ford Motor Company Model A factory.” . […]
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Win the Entire Rosenfeld Media Book Collection 10 Mar 2010, 5:00 pm
Rosenfeld Media, publisher of short, practical books on user experience design, is giving away its entire collection of books.
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Nokia designers on their work 10 Mar 2010, 4:50 pm
Izwan Ismail, a journalist at Malaysia’s New Strait Times newspaper, talked to Nokia’s top three designers — Nikki Barton, Younghee Jung and Robert Williams — to find out what it takes to come. […]
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Are we about to witness a digital service revolution? 10 Mar 2010, 3:53 pm
Introducing new digital services in cities promises the change the way citzens live in cities around the world. “Only a few years ago, digital services were about bandwidth, wireless protocols, and. […]
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Johnny Holland – It’s all about interaction » Blog Archive » “What Are You Suggesting?” Using Images to Influence 10 Mar 2010, 1:09 pm
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How to Choose Right CSS Frameworks 10 Mar 2010, 9:35 am
CSS Frameworks allow you to rapidly improve and speed up your development time when used correctly, and provide a powerful way to style our websites and applications with flexibility and effectiveness. […]
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8 Ways to Promote Your Work Through Internet Collaboration 10 Mar 2010, 9:00 am
Promoting our products and services can be a time consuming and daunting task. It can be a wise way to expand your network, pool resources and save time, money and work. Here are eight ways you can do. […]
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Google Public Data Explorer 10 Mar 2010, 3:36 am
Google Public Data Explorer [google.com] is yet the latest entry in the ongoing race to democratize data access and its representation for lay people. Similar to Many Eyes, Swivel, Tableau Public and. […]
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The Panic Status Board 9 Mar 2010, 9:59 pm
Panic got inspiration from Cultured Code’s Development Status Board and crafted their own dashboard/status board, displayed in a flat screen TV. Via @balsamiqMarco
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Arrivals, Cultured Code Development Status 9 Mar 2010, 8:41 pm
I love this idea. Cultured Code shows the development status on their projects as a flight arrivals display. Screen Name: culturedcode-status Number of screens: 1 URL: http://culturedcode.com/s. […]
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The Panic Status Board makes me weak in the knees 9 Mar 2010, 4:25 pm
The team at Panic have rigged up this amazing (and beautiful) real-time display of the data immediately relevant to their team. Projects that fall in the cross section of dataviz and productivity real. […]
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How to Increase Conversions on any Website in 45 Minutes 9 Mar 2010, 3:00 pm
In less time than you spend watching The Bachelor each week, you can have a dramatic (and measurable) effect on your website.
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43 Essential Controls for Web Applications | UX Booth 9 Mar 2010, 2:40 pm
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Win 5 Must Read Web Design Books 9 Mar 2010, 11:44 am
Today we have a very special giveaway for our precious readers – five of the best and most popular design books currently available. Just have a look at the line up of books we have, the books are:. […]
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Better Mobile Form Design 9 Mar 2010, 8:00 am
Trust me, no one likes filling in forms —especially on mobile devices where one-handed, on-the-go data input and slow connections are common place. As a result, designing forms that make mobile inpu. […]
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LukeW | Better Mobile Form Design 9 Mar 2010, 5:56 am
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Obama Loves Infographic Movies (and Edward Tufte) 9 Mar 2010, 3:03 am
Yesterday, I tweeted the quite surprising news that information graphics guru Edward Tufte will be joining the Recovery Independent Advisory Panel [edwardtufte.com], which aims to track and explain $. […]
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Design is not just about solving for the negative; It’s about creating a positive. 9 Mar 2010, 1:53 am
“For a solution to be truly sustainable and good it must have a positive return to the environment and society. At the heart of any design problem is a question: Are we trying to make something les. […]
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Tim Berners-Lee: The Year Open Data Went Worldwide (TED Talk) 8 Mar 2010, 11:06 pm
The very short TED talk by internet pioneer Tim Berners-Lee shows a few of the interesting results where open data gets mashed up in various compelling data visualizations. The talk includes many exa. […]
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UX Magazine at SXSW – Interactive 2010 8 Mar 2010, 8:40 pm
We will be at the SXSW Interactive festival in Austin March 12 -16 We will be posting updates on our SXSW activities at: http://uxmag.com/sxsw2010 UX Magazine’s Managing Editor, Jonathan Anderson, a. […]
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Experience Design at the core 8 Mar 2010, 4:49 pm
Love to see Experience Design fall at the center of People, Technology, Business and Story. Most people (and companies) instinctively gravitate to the first three but it’s usually the last one that. […]
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Ethnography informs text-free UI for illiterate people 8 Mar 2010, 2:42 pm
Indrani Medhi, an Associate Researcher at Microsoft Research India where she works in the Technology for Emerging Markets team, designed a text free user interface for illiterate populations. “A stu. […]
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A Look into Color Theory in Web Design 8 Mar 2010, 11:48 am
Colors are powerful tools and an important thing all designers should understand when creating websites.
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Accusing Google’s Business Practice through (another) Infographic Movie 8 Mar 2010, 11:10 am
It seems the now classic infographic movie “Google Master Plan” from early 2007 is now finally outdated, as the main allegations have been recently updated by another infographically-style film, aptl. […]
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No seriously, you are not your user 8 Mar 2010, 9:00 am
I recently ran across this video again, and there is no clearer example of who you should really be thinking about when you are building a website or web-based software. Watch the video and we will ca. […]
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Keeping Your Web Servers Running Smoothly 8 Mar 2010, 8:41 am
As designers and developers we generally worry about the aesthetics and behavior of a website. But what about the server it runs on that has made it all possible for this site to operate swiftly? In o. […]
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Data Monday: Social’s Growth on Mobile 8 Mar 2010, 8:00 am
Since that last time I outlined the growth of social networking on mobile devices (in November 2009), things have only accelerated. Here’s a few recent statistics on the growth of social activity on m. […]
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Sketching in Music 8 Mar 2010, 4:21 am
Music always seemed like a natural place to continue my investigation of the performing arts and sketching. I’ve played the saxophone since I was ten years old and I love jazz. But after some false. […]
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The man behind the UX scene, Jonathan Knoll 8 Mar 2010, 4:05 am
While the rest of us sat here and tossed popcorn into our mouths as we watched the Oscars, I couldn’t help but think about all those on the tech side of things that often don’t get air time, becau. […]
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The Winners of MooTools 1.2 Beginner’s Guide Books 8 Mar 2010, 3:36 am
Packt Publishing set out to give away five copies of my book, MooTools 1.2 Beginner’s Guide. Here are the winners.
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