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UX Booth: User Experience & Usability Blog 2013 Here is a list of frequently asked questions. Please take a look to see if your questions are answered here before sending questions directly to ISFiT. What is the theme of ISFiT 2013? The theme of ISFiT 2013 is “Global Trade”. ISFiT has made a definition of global trade, which you can find in the theme document. Global trade will be a subject for debate in the 17 workshops, which all have a different topic related to global trade. Who can I ask about tickets for events during ISFiT 2013? Send an e-mail to tickets[at]isfit.org, and they will help you with your questions regarding tickets. How do I apply to be a part of the festival? You apply by filling out the application form, which can be found here. How do I apply to be a part of the Dialogue Groups? In order to attend the Dialogue Groups you have to be a student from one of the three chosen conflict areas: Armenia & Azerbaijan, Sri Lanka or Burundi. Which fees do I have to pay in order to attend ISFiT 2013? Social media

A Brief History Of User Experience Design Think about the last time you ate at a restaurant. What cuisine did it serve? What made you to choose that particular restaurant? Your answers to these questions, including all the emotional highs and lows, encompass the restaurant’s user experience (UX). However, when people use the term UX, they’re usually referring to one’s experience with a digital or technological product or service. Today, UX has grown into an important design discipline that continues to grow and evolve. To think about where the much debated-practice of user experience design will take us next, it’ll help to take a look back at some of the key events in its meandering evolution. Circa 1430: Leonardo da Vinci’s "kitchen nightmare"Michael Gelb’s wonderful book How to Think Like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven Steps To Genius Every Day recounts the story of the Duke of Milan commissioning da Vinci to design the kitchen for a high-profile feast. In it, he writes:

User Interface Engineering - Usability Research, Training, and Events - UIE 52 Weeks of UX The user experience is made up of all the interactions a person has with your brand, company, or organization. This may include interactions with your software, your web site, your call center, an advertisement, with a sticker on someone else’s computer, with a mobile application, with your Twitter account, with you over email, maybe even face-to-face. The sum total of these interactions over time is the user experience. The interaction designer plans for these moments. User experience spans multiple practices. Web designers, traditionally secure in the role of page creators, now have a wider purview.

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Pagination Gallery: Examples And Good Practices Advertisement Structure and hierarchy reduce complexity and improve readability. The more organized your articles or web-sites are, the easier it is for users to follow your arguments and get the message you are trying to deliver. In body copy headlines and enumerations are usually used to present the information as logically separated data chunks. Search engines almost always use pagination; newspapers tend to make use of it for navigation through the parts of rather large articles. In most cases pagination is better than traditional “previous – next” navigation as it offers visitors a more quick and convenient navigation through the site. Let’s take a look at the good practices of pagination design as well as some examples of when and how the pagination is usually implemented. Good Practices Of Pagination Design(7 Aspects according to Faruk Ates) Related References Mistake #1: Navigation Options Are Invisible But most importantly, the navigation options should be visible. Gallery

Create a Clean Modern Website Design in Photoshop Build a complete website design mockup for a fictional design studio, starting with the creation of the initial layout then moving on to designing the individual page elements. The result is a modern, crisp and clean webpage layout ready for coding. Taking inspiration from various modern website designs, we’ll produce this clean and crisp website layout. A good start with any design is to sketch out the plans on paper, the free reign of the pencil helps flesh out the rough layout with ease. Planning out a wireframe also helps develop a hierarchy and gives an insight into the best positions for key elements of the design. Create a new document in Adobe Photoshop, I tend to make the size of the artwork similar to that of a common widescreen monitor to give a good representation of the overall look of the site. Place guides at a 960px width in the centre of the document and create a basic grid to place the page items against. Begin with the creation of the header bar.