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Software developer, designer and manager. Over 50, short tempered and easily distracted. Child-like in my love of cool gadgets, dogs and hats.

The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint. I suffer from something called Ménière’s disease—don’t worry, you cannot get it from reading my blog.

The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint

The symptoms of Ménière’s include hearing loss, tinnitus (a constant ringing sound), and vertigo. There are many medical theories about its cause: too much salt, caffeine, or alcohol in one’s diet, too much stress, and allergies. Thus, I’ve worked to limit control all these factors. However, I have another theory. As a venture capitalist, I have to listen to hundreds of entrepreneurs pitch their companies. To prevent an epidemic of Ménière’s in the venture capital community, I am evangelizing the 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint. Ten slides. So please observe the 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint. UX Design. 25 User Experience Videos That Are Worth Your Time. Advertisement We’re all mostly accustomed to educating ourselves by reading articles.

25 User Experience Videos That Are Worth Your Time

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. 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.

UX Best PracticesIn this excellent video session, Nick Finck pries open the most popular websites today, including eBay, Amazon, Toyota, Flickr, Twitter and Netflix, to explain user experience best practices. Top 100 Design Blogs that You Should Follow. Online resources are always scattered and it takes time for us to build the resources that we are looking for.

Top 100 Design Blogs that You Should Follow

Coupon Audit has created a list of the top 100 design blogs to follow in 2013. If you are a designer newbie or a amateur designer who wants to dig deeper in designing field. This list has the right resources that you should pay attention to. If you want to start building your webpage there’s a Lifehack Deal for MacFlux 4 that ends Feb 11th (68% discount at the time of writing) and also another deal for Coffee Cup another great web design package (ends Feb 22nd, 74% Discount). Original Article: Top 100 Design Blogs To Follow In 2013 SEE ALSO: Learn the 20 Design Theory Tricks that Designers Already Use on You Featured photo credit: Red coffee cup on wooden deck tabletop against red grunge wall via Shutterstock.

10 Most Common Misconceptions About User Experience Design - Aurora.