UXbyDesign: A User Experience Blog by Bradley Hebdon

Google Latitude, an eye in the sky?

Posted on 06. Feb, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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Google unveiled its new mobile location tracking service, Google Latitude, on Wednesday — and I’m sure there’s going to be a polarized reaction to this.
Google Latitude, lets you have your location monitored and shared in real time with your friends, family, or whomever you choose. Once you sign up, GPS satellites and cell towers watch [...]

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Web trends for 2009

Posted on 05. Feb, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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Smashing Magazine has put together a comprehensive set of web design trends that cover recent developments, new design elements and new graphic approaches. They also discuss situations in which these trends can be used and present some beautiful examples. Read Part 1 and Part 2.
Seoptimise.com has compiled a more diverse set of trends covering web design, search [...]

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The Top 150 Twitterers

Posted on 04. Feb, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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I was curious which twitterers (or twits) make up the twitter leaderboard. According to twittown.com, here’s the top 10 twitterrs by total number of followers, including their twitter handles:
1 Barack Obama
(BarackObama) - 226827
President
2 Stephen Fry
(stephenfry) – 104531
Writer/Actor
3 Evan Williams
(ev) – 59454
Twitter CEO
4 Veronica Belmont
(Veronica) – 59289
Host of Tekzilla on Revision3
5 Michael Arrington
(TechCrunch) – 56870
Founder of [...]

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Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design – By Bill Buxton

Posted on 03. Feb, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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While this is definitely an excellent book for designers, it is just as much a resource for executives, product managers and software engineers. To help illustrate many of his points, Buxton takes the reader through real-life case studies.
Buxton is a champion for design, not only as a discipline, but also as a process. In fact, he places huge emphasis [...]

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Mobile Web Design trends for 2009

Posted on 31. Jan, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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Smashing Magazine has compiled a valuable collection of mobile web design trends, challenges and tips. As users access the web via their mobile device more than ever before, it becomes even more important for traditional web designers to take note.
Read the article here >

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Userfly or Userspy?

Posted on 31. Jan, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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I found this rather intriguing usability resource called Userfly.com. As the name suggests, it serves as a fly on the wall and records your real users’ interactions with a website. While the idea seems hugely effective for analyzing their behavior, I do wonder how users would feel if they were being observed unknowingly.
Go to their website and [...]

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Britain from above: BBC's Narrative Visualization

Posted on 30. Jan, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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Britain looks very different from the skies. From a bird’s eye view of the nation, its workings, cities, landscapes and peoples are revealed and re-discovered in new and extraordinary ways. Cutting edge technology allows you to see through cloud cover, navigate the landscape and witness familiar sights as never seen before.
As more and more data [...]

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Apple working on 3D Mac OS X user interface

Posted on 30. Jan, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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A series of Apple patent filings published this week reveal the Mac maker has spent a considerable amount of time outlining a new multi-dimensional interface for Mac OS X that would make better use of screen real estate by increasing the number of virtual surfaces capable of housing application and interface elements.
View full article here, [...]

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An interview with fashion photographer, Leo Lam

Posted on 28. Jan, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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As an on-going feature, I’ll be chatting with colleagues within the larger ecology of “User Experience”. Through this, I hope to broaden the reader’s perception of what “User Experience” truly implies, and that this is not a term reserved exclusively for labs and virtual spaces.
To kick this off, I sat down with fashion photographer Leo Lam. We go back [...]

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Superbowl.com is alive and twittering!

Posted on 26. Jan, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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Thanks to major redesign efforts, we have a much improved Superbowl.com for this season. Again, please pass on your comments, thoughts, likes and dislikes.
Check it out: http://www.superbowl.com
Also, we’ve setup a twitter account to provide on-the-fly commentary behind the scenes.
Check that out: http://twitter.com/SuperBowl

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Seattle Seahawks & Buffalo Bills websites go live

Posted on 25. Jan, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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Albeit a late announcement, the newly redesigned and rearchitected Seattle Seahawks and Buffalo Bills websites have gone live. These are the first two websites we’ve rolled onto the new NFL clubs platform, which will eventually house all 32 clubs.
I welcome all feedback, as the platform will be an entity of on-going evolution and enhancement.
Take a look [...]