background preloader

UX design

Facebook Twitter

Motion Graphics

The UX talent every CIO should chase - iRise. Demystifying Usability : Are your users dumb or are your designers the dummies? Behavior Design Bootcamp with Stanford’s Dr. BJ Fogg. I was recently in Northern California by way of an invitation from Dr.

Behavior Design Bootcamp with Stanford’s Dr. BJ Fogg

BJ Fogg, head of Stanford University’s Persuasive Technology Lab, to study and learn his new behavior design methodology. In addition to his landmark successes at Stanford and in industry (like groundbreaking research and several patents), BJ travels the globe training innovators at large, consumer-facing companies on how to build products and experiences that create new behaviors. Admittedly, behavior design can sound a bit “heady.”

Don’t let it throw you. BJ’s students have sited his instruction in persuasive technology and behavior design as key tenets in the success of their ventures. Inside Team Romney’s whale of an IT meltdown. It was supposed to be a "killer app," but a system deployed to volunteers by Mitt Romney's presidential campaign may have done more harm to Romney's chances on Election Day—largely because of a failure to follow basic best practices for IT projects.

Inside Team Romney’s whale of an IT meltdown

Called "Orca," the effort was supposed to give the Romney campaign its own analytics on what was happening at polling places and to help the campaign direct get-out-the-vote efforts in the key battleground states of Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania, Iowa, and Colorado. Instead, volunteers couldn't get the system to work from the field in many states—in some cases because they had been given the wrong login information. The system crashed repeatedly. At one point, the network connection to the Romney campaign's headquarters went down because Internet provider Comcast reportedly thought the traffic was caused by a denial of service attack. What are the most important emerging user experience themes right now? Rapid Prototyping and Simulation. What are the best recent talks give in UI/UX for web and mobile.

IDI Web Accessibility Checker : Web Accessibility Checker. Catch common usability pr... Why prototyping beats wireframing by Leisa Reichelt @ The Pastry Box Project. Rapid Prototyping and Simulation. Enjoy Technical Writing » Product Design: Wireframes. Wireframes: From Bar Napkins To Prototypes - The Usabilla Blog. The Broken Telephone Game of Defining Software and UI Requirements.