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10 Books to becoming an Idea Generating Machine

Posted on 20. Jul, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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Good ideas are the foundation for all effective products, experiences and story-telling. And yet coming up with these gems can be one of the toughest parts of the creative process. These ten books will help put you in the right mindset to start generating original ideas. Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die | [...]

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The 10 Commandents for Designing Less Evil Forms

Posted on 01. Jul, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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Ah yes, the four-letter F word. Lets not beat around the bush here, we all hate the form. Well let me be more accurate with that statement. We all hate completing forms. But as we go about our everyday lives on the web, we’re confronted by these annoying SOB’s relentlessly and mercilessly on every turn [...]

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20 User Experience Books you should own

Posted on 24. Jun, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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These highly recommended user experience books cover everything from user research and interface design, to information architecture and UX strategy. If you’re really serious about your career as a user experience professional, these books should be the cornerstone of your personal library. What are your top 5 User Experience books? Subject To Change: Creating Great Products [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]