From the monthly archives:

February 2010

The Fundamentals of Innovation – BusinessWeek #ux

February 11, 2010 Uncategorized

Steve Jobs is renowned for saying that “real artists ship. via businessweek.com Perhaps an overly ambitious title, but still interesting stuff here. It reminds us to get stuff out the door. Posted via web from John Whalen’s Posterous

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In Praise of Online Obscurity | Wired #socialmedia #ux

February 11, 2010 Uncategorized

Why? Because socializing doesn’t scale. Once a group reaches a certain size, each participant starts to feel anonymous again, and the person they’re following — who once seemed proximal, like a friend — now seems larger than life and remote. “They feel they can’t possibly be the person who’s going to make the useful contribution,” [...]

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Fitting User Experience into an Agile Project Cycle #ux #agile

February 11, 2010 Uncategorized

Advice From the PanelThe biggest takeaway for our team of Experience Architects was not to compromise user testing. Test early and test often. It’s a great way to learn if the designs are usable, especially if you have a hunch that there are issues. Don’t have a huge budget for testing? No problem … there [...]

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Rich Internet Application Screen Design | UX Magazine #ixd

February 11, 2010 Uncategorized

Designing a rich Internet application (RIA) can test even an experienced design team. The hardest challenge is to blend Web and desktop paradigms to create a responsive and intuitive experience. Some paradigms that exist in the desktop environment are ill-suited for the Web, while many of the Web paradigms people are familiar with (paging, explicit [...]

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You will Retweet this…its awesome! #ux #persuasion

February 11, 2010 Uncategorized

The results are surprising — well, to me, anyway. I would have hypothesized that there are two basic strategies for making the most-e-mailed list. One, which I’ve happily employed, is to write anything about sex. The other, which I’m still working on, is to write an article headlined: “How Your Pet’s Diet Threatens Your Marriage, [...]

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Top Sledding Sites in Washington DC, Maryland and Northern Virginia

February 11, 2010 Uncategorized

There are plenty of good places to go sledding on a wintery day in Washington DC, Maryland and Northern Virginia. Here are some popular sledding hills around the DC area. via dc.about.com There’s still time… Posted via web from John Whalen’s Posterous

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State leads nation in tech job growth

February 11, 2010 Uncategorized

The state saw growth in the computer systems design and related services adding 5,3000 jobs in 2009 as well as the management, scientific and technical consulting, where 4,500 jobs were added, subsectors and in fact, led the nation in both.  via bmoremedia.com I hope our e.mag hires helped! Now we need to add to UX/IxD with equal [...]

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Telling Your Website’s Story with Sketchboarding | UX Booth

February 11, 2010 Uncategorized

An experience theme helps illustrate for your team the kind of experience which separate elements of a website should work to create; the kind of elements you will use to tell your website’s story. Effectively executed, experience themes objectify design and developments decisions which would otherwise be subjective. That alone is worth the upfront cost [...]

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Five jobs for Internet enthusiasts – CNN.com…User Operations Analyst???

February 11, 2010 Uncategorized

User operations analyst What one thing do advertisers and site owners want to know more than anything else? How online users behave — the pages they visit, how far they scroll down a page, how many clicks they are willing to make to find information and anything else that gives insight to how users navigate [...]

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Snowy enough?

February 10, 2010 Uncategorized

Posted via web from John Whalen’s Posterous

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