Usability is the core ingredient for designing successful digital products and services.
The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project published some interesting non-use related numbers related to Facebook, in a report titled “Coming and Going on Facebook”:
61% of current Facebook users say that at one time or another in the past they […]
Given The Onion is a satirical magazine, this article is so spot-on it could – from my own conversations with “users” – just as well be about factual research:
Tired of being bombarded with constant requests to share content on social media, bestow ratings, leave […]
The IxDA Helsinki October meeting was an evening filled with discussions about the current state of interaction design, the industry and new ideas. Paavo Westerberg rocked the house with an insightful and lively presentation about 15 Golden Rules for creative processes and event host Idean shared […]
“Press ‘Like’ and win an iPad”. “Share your workouts with your friends”. “Complete your profile to tell more about yourself”. Digital services bubble over with calls for users to share more about themselves, about products and people they like as well […]
Do you remember the times before mobile phones and the internet? The most instant technology for distance communication was the land-line telephone: Devices were spread out around the country, connected by wires, and a voice connection could be established between them by entering a numerical code […]
The release of Eric Butler’s Firesheep, a browser add-on allowing to hijack browser sessions over unsecured wireless networks without any technical expertise, has triggered a flood of commentary how users may protect themselves. However, while protecting their own connection makes a user safe […]
Peter Morville’s column deals with the increasingly important role of rich UX deliverables as tools to communicate digital concepts beyond just documenting them. His annotated list of 20 formats for deliverables encompasses stories, proverbs, personas, scenarios, content inventories […]
Interview with Erin Malone, Christian Crumlish, and Lucas Pettinati on the history and role of design patterns:
An interaction design pattern is not a step-by-step recipe or a specification. It’s a set of things we’ve learned that tend to work in clearly defined situations as well […]