November 2010
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Why "Clean" Isn't Such a Dirty Word For Designers
You have probably heard someone say, “That design is so clean!”
Or perhaps you’ve scanned your RSS feed and seen titles like “1000 Clean and Minimalist Designs”, “Super-clean, Simple, Minimal Website Designs”, or “How to Design Clean, Typographic, Minimalist Sites.”
I normally throw up in my mouth a little when I encounter such phrases. But...
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Is Facebook Temporary?
Last week, the most prestigious investment bank in the world, Goldman Sachs, decided to invest almost 2 billion dollars in the social network Facebook (a mix of its own and its clients capital), which on paper made the six year old startup worth $50,000,000,000.
Yes, a social networking site is now worth $50 Billion Dollars. With a B.
The recent frenzy around the Goldman Sachs investment...
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Knowing Your Audience: Lessons from the Gaming...
This week’s guest author is Matt Ventre, a user experience designer at MessageFirst in Philadelphia, PA.
Now that we’re settling in to play our new, more-amazing-than-ever video games procured over the holidays, it makes sense to ask: “What can the UX folks learn from the wildly successful gaming world?”
In a word: audience. The video gaming marketplace’s vibrant success over the past...
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Building a Shared Understanding
This week’s guest author is Bill Scott, Director of E-commerce UI Engineering at Netflix and co-author of the fantastic book Designing Web Interfaces: Principles & Patterns for Rich Interactions.
Years ago I was in an off-site with the design team for a well known, successful web site. During the course of the day I heard designers complain that what went live was often embarrassingly...
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Usability Testing: Getting Design Teams Onboard
This week’s guest author is Christine Perfetti, CEO of Perfetti Media, a Boston-based user research consulting and training firm.
Many designers come to me for usability testing consulting services. One of the reasons they reach out is because they assume usability testing must be a complex, scientific process. As a result, they’d prefer to have an outside company conduct their...
