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Encyclopedia of Usability, HCI, and more. I only have one big research question, but I attack it from a lot of different angles. The question is representation. How do people make, see and use things that carry meaning? The angles from which I attack my question include various ways in which representations are applied (including design processes, interacting with technology, computer programming, visualisation), various methods by which I collect research data (including controlled experiments, prototype construction, ethnographic observation), and the theoretical perspectives of various academic disciplines (including computer science, cognitive psychology, engineering, architecture, music, anthropology).

If you are based in Cambridge, you may like to attend the following talks on human-computer interaction. I only have one big research question, but I attack it from a lot of different angles.

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UsabilityPost. UsableMarkets — markets, design, usability, research. Usability News (news headlines) for all the latest news in usability and human-computer interaction (HCI) Creating Passionate Users. My Favorite Graphs... and the future This blog has always been about optimism, creating better user experiences, helping users spend more time in flow, and learning. There are 405 posts here. More importantly, there are nearly 10,000 comments from y'all that add so much more to the topics, and from which myself and others have learned a great deal. I don't want the last thing people remember about this blog to be The Bad Things.

So, I've moved my original "threats" post--something many people find very difficult to look at-- to a different web page -- rather than keeping it as a post here. If you want to read the original content of the post (it lost some formatting), it's here. But I want the thing people see when they come here now to reflect what this blog has always been about, so I'm including a few of my favorite pictures from the last two years here. I made no money from this blog -- it was always a labor of love. That leaves me with... what to do next? Please help. Probably, yes. Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design. Brain Sparks. New Dates for UX Advantage: August 18-19 By Jared Spool April 30th, 2015 We’re changing the dates of UX Advantage to August 18 & 19. We love Baltimore. We’re excited to do an event there. In light of what’s happening in Baltimore, we don’t think it’s right promoting this event at this time.

We feel the best thing we can do is to postpone for a couple of months. Baltimore is a great city and we want to do an event there. Jared and Karen UIEtips: Extraordinarily Radical Redesign Strategies April 29th, 2015 In today’s UIEtips, we reprint an article on radical redesign strategies. Here’s an excerpt from the article: The day they flipped the switch and launched the new site, sales dropped by 20%.

Read the article Extraordinarily Radical Redesign Strategies. What strategy have you put in place when planning a redesign? Rachel Nabors – Using Animation to Enhance Your UX By Sean Carmichael April 22nd, 2015 Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 18:23 — 9.6MB) [ Transcript Available ] April 9th, 2015. Usability - Smashing Magazine. Useit.com: Jakob Nielsen on Usability and Web Design.

A List Apart: Topics: User Science. UX Magazine | Defining and Informing the Complex Field of User Experience (UX) UX Booth: User Experience & Usability Blog. UXmatters :: Insights and inspiration for the user experience community.