Monthly Archives: August 2009

Userability #13 – Renaissance Man

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This week we have our longest, and certainly one of our most interesting episodes to date. Jared and Robert met Joshua Muskovitz on the IxDA discussion list when Josh posted an innocent-enough question to the list: what do you call someone who sits squarely on the fence between interaction design and implementation? How do I market myself while job hunting when I have been in the industry so long that I have a really broad range of skills? Continue reading

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SpoolCast: Getting to Good Design Faster

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Leah Buley brings us her insight to getting to the good design faster in your process and improving the input you receive from your organization. There are some great ideas here that you should listen to. Continue reading

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7 Steps to Avoiding User Adoption Problems with Site Redesigns

When you redesign a new site, how do you know users are going to like it? How can you ensure that you know how the redesign will sit with existing as well as new users? Earlier this year, Facebook faced this dilemma when 1.7 million of their uses start… Continue reading

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UIEtips: Information Interplay – Visual Design, Information Architecture, and Content

There’s an on-going debate in the design community: are teams better off with generalists or specialists? Those taking the generalist side argue that a breadth of abilities helps more. On the specialists’ side, they claim it is the depth of specific abilities delivering the benefit.
From our research in what makes up the most successful teams, [...] Continue reading

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Positioning: Turning a Potential Liability into an Asset

When is a liability not a liability? When you can turn it into an asset through clever positioning! Sometimes whether something is a positive or a negative is really just a matter of perspective. To illustrate this concept, let’s look at some examples… Lack of Experience Perhaps you just started a business. Some might consider [...] Continue reading

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twitteripation – socializing a ux hermit

We all have to determine what works for us. We have to find ways of communicating and connecting that fit our style. We’re all user experience designers. And the user we neglect most often is the typically the only one we ever get to directly influence… Continue reading

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How to Extend Your Customer Experience Through Social Media

I’m in Toronto this week on business. Arriving a few days early to play tourist, I tweeted for recommendations for… Continue reading

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Social Media Revolution

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SpoolCast: The Web as a Conversation

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Ginny Redish joins us to discuss why the web should act like a telephone conversation between you and your customers. Continue reading

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6 Gorgeous Facebook Visualizations

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Like every complex network, Facebook (Facebook) offers unlimited possibilities of visual representation of the various connections between its users. We’ve chosen six beautiful visualizations that will awaken the (visual) geek within you. You don’t have to stop at merely watching. … Continue reading

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