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Best of the Web Weekly Roundup: September 5–11

Posted on 12. Sep, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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UX Basis: A UX Process and Toolbox An incredibly useful resource for both UX folks and clients. We need to remember to educate as well as design. UX Basis is way of combining the numerous tools available to us and forming a unified process that sits within a digital agency and it’s other important departments [...]

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Wearable Technology, the next User Experience Frontier

Posted on 08. Sep, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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With the explosion of mobile device usage, technology has never been as portable as it is today. But portability alone does not necessarily determine a productive and satisfying user experience. Mobile devices are infamous for their poor usability and so looking at the emergence of wearable technology; I cannot but feel a little concerned. Not due to [...]

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Best of the Web Weekly Roundup: Aug 29 – Sept 4

Posted on 04. Sep, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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Wireframing Resources An excellent collection of wireframing how-to’s, tips, advice and resources. A great read for both Information Architects and anyone who works with IA’s. Audi Conversations Visualization Click on the “Conversations” link at the bottom of the page. Here you’ll experience a social media visualization and aggregation of Audi related YouTube videos, Flickr Photos, [...]

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The 65 Most Annoying things about the Web Today

Posted on 13. Aug, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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We’ve come a long way on the web today. Or have we? While we’ve innovated in many areas, we’ve also continued to disregard pre-existing issues. And in some cases, we have also created new ones. Here is my list of the top 65 most annoying things about the web today. They’re in no particular order, [...]

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Caution: 5 Common Usability Testing Mistakes to Avoid

Posted on 15. Jul, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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Usability testing is not an easy thing to perfect. However, a good starting point is to identify where most mistakes are made throughout the process. And through this awareness, you should fine-tune your approaches to planning, moderation and analysis, in order to attain truly insightful findings. 1. Recruiting Unsuitable Participants It’s vital that you validate a design through the eyes of [...]

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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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Usability Study suggests Bing topples Google?

Posted on 29. Jun, 2009 by Bradley Hebdon.

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I’m sure everyone is aware of the titanic battle between Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine, and Google. But I doubt the pundits give Bing any hope of pushing Google off their long occupied and solitary pedestal. To get an idea of user preferences between the two search engine interfaces, Catalyst Group, a New York based usability research company [...]

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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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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 [...]

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Second Life: Freedom Vs. Structure

Posted on 30. Mar, 2007 by Bradley Hebdon.

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I recently attended a Second Life demonstration at the Information Architecture Summit in Las Vegas, which by the way is as an ironic place as you get for hosting such an event. Information Architecture in Vegas? Well it may exist, but lets just say if it does, its been designed with the purpose to be [...]