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Social Lessons From Ping 3 Sep 2010, 7:00 am

Apple’s first foray into social applications launched yesterday in the form of Ping: a social network for music built into iTunes. As I was reading people’s reactions to and expectations of the servic. […]

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Imagining the Future of the Touchscreen iPod nano 2 Sep 2010, 11:03 pm

A Brief History of the Future In 1991, Mark Weiser of Xerox PARC wrote an article for Scientific American titled The Computer for the 21st Century (PDF link here). Arguably the father of ubiquitous co. […]

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Why privacy is not dead 2 Sep 2010, 5:38 pm

The way privacy is encoded into software doesn’t match the way we handle it in real life, writes Microsoft researcher Danah Boyd in the Technology Review. “Each time Facebook’s privacy settings. […]

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A cyber-house divided 2 Sep 2010, 5:31 pm

Online as much as in the real world, people bunch together in mutually suspicious groups—and in both realms, peacemaking is an uphill struggle. The Economist reports in an article that quotes Danah. […]

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Use the 80-20 Rule to Increase Your Website’s Effectiveness 2 Sep 2010, 10:30 am

Want to increase your website’s conversion rate? How about doing less work while you’re at it? Focus on the 20% that will bring you 80% of the results.

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Attention: This revolution will NOT be televised 2 Sep 2010, 10:27 am

Adrian Chan of Gravity 7 and Andreas Weigend, former chief scientist at Amazon.com and lecturer at Stanford and UC Berkeley, together wrote an article on how best to respond to the world of social dat. […]

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Stowe Boyd’s thoughts on our social future 2 Sep 2010, 10:08 am

Stowe Boyd went to BlogTalk in Galway, Ireland and came back inspired: sociality, he says, has turned out to be the most interesting thing to emerge from the past decade of the web. “The next genera. […]

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Basque PhD thesis on relationship of youth today with new technologies 2 Sep 2010, 9:44 am

A few days ago sociologist Ms Lucía Merino presented her PhD thesis entitled, Digital natives: a study of the technological socialisation of young people, at the University of the Basque Country (UPV. […]

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Mobile devices and privacy 2 Sep 2010, 9:27 am

Should we focus on changing the behaviour of people OR changing the behaviour of devices? That is the key question in article by Ajit Jaokar on his blog Open Gardens. “The many privacy related issue. […]

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How mobile devices could lead to more city living 2 Sep 2010, 9:13 am

People pushing sustainability don’t tend to be the same types who love our digital-crazed iWorld. And that’s a problem because it means they don’t push one of the great advantages of dense, ener. […]

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The library user experience: services before content 2 Sep 2010, 8:55 am

Libraries will have to build a new foundation if they are to recover from these economic hard times—a foundation of valuable services, of user experience, not just free content, writes Aaron Schmidt. […]

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To win over users, gadgets have to be touchable 2 Sep 2010, 8:45 am

Researchers say that touch screens are the start of a trend to make computers more open to human gestures, argues the New York Times. “Device makers in a post-iPhone world are focused on fingertips,. […]

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Interactions magazine on human nuances 2 Sep 2010, 8:35 am

The current issue of Interactions Magazine is generally on the nuances of what makes us human, writes co-editor-in-chief Jon Kolko, and more in particular “about authenticity, complexity, and design. […]

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Amazing Pure CSS3 Experiments 2 Sep 2010, 8:19 am

The new and revitalized CSS3 properties have not only opened up many, many marvelous development solutions for web designers, it has also allowed talented developers to push the boat out further and s. […]

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Designing the Campus Tour 2 Sep 2010, 5:50 am

I’m surprised to find that there’s a booming cottage industry in the design of university tours for prospective students. Eric Hoover explores the Disneyfication of campus tours in an article this. […]

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US Open Tennis Real-Time Data Visualization 2 Sep 2010, 12:56 am

On the heels of the many real-time sports visualizations that appeared alongside the recent FIFA soccer worldcup, the US Open Pointstream [usopen.org] presents an original 3D-like way of exploring th. […]

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Start designing for the possibilities of human connection 1 Sep 2010, 11:47 pm

“Think beyond UX design, and start designing for the possibilities of human connection.” – Michael Wesch This quote is from Michael’s UX Week 2010 talk “Mediated Culture.” Related posts:In. […]

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The UI15 Lineup – Gettin’ Better Every Year 1 Sep 2010, 7:41 pm

The User Interface Conference is a 15-year tradition of building up the designer’s skill set. Each year our team of expert instructors gets better and better. These are people so rich in experience,. […]

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Aesthetics of interaction 1 Sep 2010, 6:00 pm

The latest issue of the International Journal of Design, eer-reviewed, open-access journal devoted to publishing research papers in all fields of design, is devoted to the aesthetics of interaction de. […]

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A weird way of thinking has prevailed worldwide 1 Sep 2010, 5:45 pm

If a provocative new study is to be believed, the world lives in a situation where American undergraduates monopolize our knowledge of human nature, writes Anand Giridharadas in the New York Times. �. […]

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Digital dinosaurs and public gardens 1 Sep 2010, 5:30 pm

Two new articles in UX Magazine: Don’t become a digital dinosaur by Samantha Starmer UX professionals can’t constrict a user’s experience to specified devices, touchpoints, or time periods. As d. […]

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Technology aside, most people still decline to be located 1 Sep 2010, 4:27 pm

Mostly the young are interested in letting others know their physical location. Others are reticent for safety reasons, or against providing too much information. The New York Times reports: “Intern. […]

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Neighborly borrowing, over the online fence 1 Sep 2010, 4:10 pm

The New York Times reports on how online start-ups are allowing people to rent out their belongings locally, for a small fee. “The Roomba was mine for only 24 hours. I had rented it through a servic. […]

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CUA of the Month: Radhika Rayadu Vooruvakili of Cisco Systems. 1 Sep 2010, 3:30 pm

Radhika Rayadu Vooruvakili of Cisco Systems is September’s Certified Usability Analyst of the month.

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Blink Interactive acquires Blue Flavor 1 Sep 2010, 3:10 pm

After much anticipation, I am happy to announce that Blue Flavor has been acquired by Blink Interactive.  As part of the acquisition, I will be joining the team at Blink Interactive as User Experien. […]

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French ethnographic research on smartphone use 1 Sep 2010, 2:48 pm

Le Monde newspaper published (Google translation) today a summary of an ethnographic research project on smartphone use by young adult, presented yesterday at a Virgin Mobile press conference in Paris. […]

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Dublin, Ireland to host Interaction 12 1 Sep 2010, 10:53 am

The City of Dublin and the Institute of Art, Design & Technology (IADT) will act as co-hosts for Interaction 12, the annual conference of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA) which will take plac. […]

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50 Amazing Free Icon Sets 1 Sep 2010, 10:30 am

There are a lot of free icon sets out there for you to use. In this collection, we rounded up a few icon sets from all over the web that you can use in your design projects. The hundreds of featured i. […]

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How to Create Pepsi Can in Photoshop 1 Sep 2010, 8:33 am

In our tutorial, we’ll be creating a shiny Pepsi can. For it to be convincingly realistic, a number of Layer Styles such as Gradients, Inner Shadows and Glows would be applied to a flat can shaped i. […]

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Apple’s Music, Media, & Mobile Sales 1 Sep 2010, 7:00 am

At the Apple media event this morning in San Francisco, Steve Jobs shared some impressive numbers about Apple’s sales and market share in mobile, music, games, and more. When you compare these numbers. […]

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Examining trust as a key to great experiences 1 Sep 2010, 2:36 am

A few months ago I wrote a post for HBR.org on how businesses that trust their customers deliver better experiences, because they use that trust to offer services that others simply will not match. In. […]

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Why Reward Failure? 1 Sep 2010, 2:12 am

I just read a note from Jared Spool’s talk at UX Australia: “In the last six weeks have you rewarded a team for creating a major design failure?” While I don’t know the context, it’s hard to. […]

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UIEtips: Components Versus Patterns 31 Aug 2010, 8:42 pm

The Vulcans had something good with that mind-meld thing. Just put your fingertips on someone else’s forehead and your two minds become one. I wonder if Vulcan designers used that technique to ensu. […]

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Mapping The Emotional Geography of Portland 31 Aug 2010, 5:49 pm

How do you get to know a place through the eyes of the people who live there? How do you discover the nuances that only a resident would know? Zakary Zide and I have been asking ourselves this questio. […]

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Sponsor Love: Companies That Support Six Revisions 31 Aug 2010, 4:30 pm

It takes plenty of resources to bring you articles about design and development free of charge. Without our sponsors, we wouldn’t be able to bring you top-notch content that you can enjoy and learn. […]

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Ask Eric: order of buttons. 31 Aug 2010, 4:10 pm

CEO Eric Schaffer answers questions about software usability.

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Ocado: Delivering on User Experience 31 Aug 2010, 1:30 pm

Inspiration is all around for UX designers, whether it comes from a nice website or, in this case, a grocery store. UX Booth contributor and interface developer Felicity Evans explores the UK grocery. […]

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Designing By Numbers: Data Analysis for Web Designers 31 Aug 2010, 10:30 am

Judging what’s best for an audience is never far from the web designer’s mind. The ability to predict whether a web design will soar like an eagle or sink like the Titanic is among the most subjec. […]

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A Selection of Mobile UI Wireframe Sketches 31 Aug 2010, 8:44 am

Reading about the UI design process of any web site, web application or even a mobile app can be very informative and inspirational for any designer. But nothing would beat experiencing the initial de. […]

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Interactive Sketching Notation 30 Aug 2010, 1:04 pm

Jakub Linowski created a sketch annotation system for interaction design and provides a free downloadable PDF describing how to use it. “The interactive sketching notation is an emerging visual langu. […]

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Craftsmanship in Designing Websites 30 Aug 2010, 10:50 am

With high pressure from clients and crazy development schedules for web designers, it is easy to forget to spend the proper amount of time crafting a design. In the interest of speeding things up, it�. […]

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Data Monday: Networked Device Growth 30 Aug 2010, 7:00 am

Back in April, I took a look at how the number of networked devices (mobiles, e-readers, tablets, game consoles, and more) used by consumers continues was growing. Here are a few more up to date proje. […]

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PSD/HTML Conversion: Elegant and Simple CSS3 Web Layout 29 Aug 2010, 1:00 pm

This is Part 2 of tutorial series. The first part dealt with creating a web design mockup of an elegant and simple blog web design. You should do Part 1 before attempting this tutorial so that you to. […]

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Winner of Custom Logo Design from Inkd 28 Aug 2010, 11:30 am

Inkd, the world’s first online marketplace for creative businesses, hosted a giveaway on Six Revisions recently. This post announces the winner of the custom logo design by Inkd. The Winner of an In. […]

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Signposts for the Week Ending August 27, 2010 27 Aug 2010, 11:03 pm

The Myth of the Fold. If we put this link further down the page, will you still find it? http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/blasting-the-myth-of “People said that a tape player, which could not reco. […]

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Designing for a Responsive Web with Heuristic Methods 27 Aug 2010, 1:13 pm

As the web has developed so has the technology and range of platforms we can use to engage with it. As the range of screens increases, higher resolution displays are becoming the norm whilst at the sa. […]

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10 Free Website Chat Widgets to Make Your Site Interactive 27 Aug 2010, 11:30 am

If you want to make your website livelier, then adding a website chat widget is perhaps one of the more effective solutions for increasing user engagement and growing your community. By putting a prop. […]

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Ideal resolution for an image on the web 27 Aug 2010, 7:42 am

What do you recommend? Should your web image have a resolution of 72dpi or is it irrelevant as the browser works in pixels and 100 pixels are 100 pixels no matter what dpi you select? What do you thin. […]

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AIGA Panel Discussion on Service Design 27 Aug 2010, 7:05 am

Next month the American Institute of Graphic Arts will be holding a panel discussion on service design here in San Francisco. Hugh Dubberly, Jamin Hegeman and Chris McCarthy will take part in a one an. […]

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Do top and bottom Web page toolbars add Clutter? 26 Aug 2010, 5:24 pm

In the past few years toolbars have started to appear on popular social networking websites like Facebook; product review sites like CNET; news sites like Reuters and the Huffington Post and social to. […]

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