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This folder takes into account, the UX UI and overall trends in data visualisation/ web dev. Some are also just great design work that I found inspiring.

Start with how to design software that users love, Its a little ambiguous but it gets you in the frame. Oct 12

Not seeing the action you want on your website? If you’re not leading your website visitors to take specific actions, they’ll just randomly browse through your pages, look at odd text and icons, then leave without buying anything. The good news is that, if you carefully direct your user’s experience through your site, you can show them exactly what to look at, what to click, and even how to buy. http://blog.crazyegg.com/2012/09/25/get-action-on-website/

Get The Action You Want On Your Website Using These Four Visual Cues

Get Your FAQs Straight: Convert Your Curious Customers

Your FAQ page represents one of the most valuable moments in a conversion funnel. Nowhere else does a visitor so deliberately indicate that they want to know the details of your product or service . Are you guilty of neglecting this important page? http://blog.kissmetrics.com/get-your-faqs-straight/

Graph Viewer Test

This is just a demonstration of my open source graph drawing library vivagraph.js . http://www.yasiv.com/graphs#HB/lshp1882

1.3.15 demo - jQuery

http://jsplumb.org/jquery/demo.html Window 1 I am plumbed with a Bezier connector to Window 2 and a label, with Blank endpoints. Window 2
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UX

http://muledesign.com/2012/10/no-such-thing-as-perfect/

No Such Thing As Perfect :: Mule Design Studio

Q: Is it possible for a designer to look at their designs from a brand new user’s perspective?
How do you persuade someone to visit your web page? And how do you persuade them to purchase your product or sign up for your newsletter? Landing page optimization is the answer.

Discover the secrets of a great landing page

http://www.wordtracker.com/academy/optimization-landing-page
http://sixrevisions.com/content-strategy/content-mapping/

How to Create Content Maps for Planning Your Website’s Content

Content mapping is a visual technique that will help you organize and understand the content of a website. It can be a simple and valuable part of your site’s overall content strategy .
Here at GoSquared, we love to obsess over the little details that make the real difference in your experience of the site and Dashboard. The new login screen was no exception. We wanted the login screen to feel personal and for our customers to feel comfortable and familar with signing in. It’s something that our most loyal customers see very regularly too, so it had to be streamlined and quick to understand and submit. At the end of the day, people don’t want to stay staring at a login form – they want to use GoSquared – they want to find out more about their website. Getting personal.

Login Screen – behind the scenes

https://www.gosquared.com/blog/login-screen-behind-the-scenes

How To Design Mental Models That Create a Superior User Experience

http://blog.crazyegg.com/2012/09/24/how-to-design-mental-models/ “Much of this article is adapted or excerpted from the book Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with User Behavior by Indi Young (Rosenfeld Media, 2008).”

The Code Side Of Color

The trouble with a color’s name is that it never really is perceived as the exact same color to two different individuals — especially if they have a stake in a website’s emotional impact. http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2012/10/04/the-code-side-of-color/

Download | FF3300 – Blog - Part 2

You can, if you want, see Mark Zuckerberg’s social network on Facebook .

12W MAT 259 Visualizing Information

Data visualization consists of the visual representation of abstract data. In this course Students explore conceptual, cultural and other issues specific to data visualization. Through presentations, Texts, and discussions, the class introduces concepts and methods of a) data mining, b) data analysis and aggregation, and c) information design and visualization.

twitter data visualization | m e d u l . l a / b l o g

3D data visualization for the last twitter messages containing a certain term or group of terms. the visualization was made in processing , using a ‘compact’ version of the twitter4j library and the twitter API. this was proposed as an exercise for the workshop datajockey , that took place in the Museum of Image and Sound of São Paulo, Brazil, from may 17th to 31st, 2011. it searches for a term in the last tweets stored in twitter database, and shows those tweets in a 3D space, the position and the color are given according to the time of the post. if two or more posts are close in time, a line that connects them in the space, forming structures. the size of the cubes are given by the minute of the post.

Idan Gazit · UI/UX and Subjectivity

Because design is often confused with art, designers must contend with the (mistaken) opinion that design is purely subjective.

Why Your Qualified Leads Refuse to Sign Up: The UX of Plans and Pricing

Every SaaS application has a funnel. Landing page, maybe a demo or pricing page, and then sign up.