25 User Experience Videos That Are Worth Your Time - Smashing Ma. Advertisement We’re all mostly accustomed to educating ourselves by reading articles. Rare are the opportunities to attend conferences or watch live shows on subjects that we’re interested in. That’s why we are presenting here phenomenal videos and related resources on the topic of user experience (UX) by different presenters at different events. We have focused on current content but have included some older videos that are still relevant. It will take you more than 16 hours to watch all of these videos.
So, make some popcorn, turn off the lights and enjoy. User Experience Videos The State of User ExperienceJesse James Garett, founder of Adaptive Path and author of the book The Elements of User Experience, speaks on what UX and UX design is, what UX looked like before and what are some of the challenges people are encountering now. 5 Minutes on Imitation in DesignIn this brilliant short talk, Jeffrey Veen explains what is meant by “Good artists copy, great artist steal.” Bonus videos (al) Website Performance: What To Know and What You Can Do - Smashing. Advertisement Website performance is a hugely important topic, so much so that the big companies of the Web are obsessed with it. For the Googles, Yahoos, Amazons and eBays, slow websites mean fewer users and less happy users and thus lost revenue and reputation. In your case, annoying a few users wouldn’t be much of a problem, but if millions of people are using your product, you’d better be snappy in delivering it.
For years, Hollywood movies showed us how fast the Internet was: time to make that a reality. Even if you don’t have millions of users (yet), consider one very important thing: people are consuming the Web nowadays less with fat connections and massive computers and more with mobile phones over slow wireless and 3G connections, but they still expect the same performance. Performance is an expert’s game… to an extent. Know Your Performance Blockers Performance can be measured in various ways. So here are the things that slow down your page the most. Scripts Images Yahoo’s YSlow. Website Performance: What To Know and What You Can Do - Smashing. Website Performance: What To Know and What You Can Do - Smashing. Web Form Design - MIX Videos.