Google Earth & Google Ocean: The underwater world is now being mapped to the delight of divers everywehre!
I am soooo excited about this. For years I have been waiting to see if the underwater world would become apart of the Google entourage.
Now the internet company plans to take on one of the last bastions of the unknown: the depths of the ocean.
At a high-profile event in San Francisco, Google is expected [...]
Use it
Great Article from Jacob Neilson’s Site:
Usability and the utility, not the visual design, determine the success or failure of a web-site. Since the visitor of the page is the only person who clicks the mouse and therefore decides everything, user-centric design has become a standard approach for successful and profit-oriented web design. After all, if [...]
Scotch, Scotch…. Love the Scotch
I don’t profess to be the world’s premier Scotch connoisseur, but I sure do love to indulge from time to time. Here are my 10 favorites.
#1 Oban 14yr – Highland
Travel north from Glasgow along the road on Scotland’s western coast—arguably one of Europe’s most scenic routes—and you’ll eventually reach Oban, a bustling seaport from which [...]
Halo unleashed through ux design
By any measure, Halo 3 is one of the most wildly-successful consumer software interfaces in recent memory: more than 1 million players played the game in its first 24 hours on Xbox Live; over 8 million copies sold to date; and “over 100,000 pieces of user generated content being uploaded daily […] 30 percent higher [...]
UX Functional Skills Matrix
As many people know one of my pet peeves is nomenclature and titling in the world of design. If we could establish a skills matrix and positions that where universal it would provide a clearer path for career development and allow us to communicate with a similar language. This is NOT to replace competency mapping [...]
VFS Curriculum Development 2007 -2010
Miles finds working as an educator an incredibly rewarding and inspiring experience. It provides you to explores your boundaries as a designer through research and curriculum development, while working with a group of developing design minds.
Course Outlines:
The User Experience course focuses on the fundamentals of User Centered Design, by focusing on observation, interviews, and persona [...]
favikon
Favikon is a simple web-based Favicon generator that takes your PNG and outputs a favicon.ico.
Quick and Easy Flash Prototypes
Bring Your Wireframes to Life
To tackle the classic “how to prototype rich interactions” problem, Alexa Andrzejewski developed a process for translating static screen designs (from wireframes to visual comps) into interactive experiences using Flash. Requiring some fairly basic ActionScript knowledge, these prototypes proved to be a quick yet powerful way to bring interaction designs to [...]
CardSort 2.0 by OptimalSort
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OptimalSort is card sorting made easier using web based software.
With an elegant user interface, powerful analysis and outstanding support we can help you run successful card sorts better than you ever thought possible.