dtdigital:

Mobile User Experience: What Web Designers Need to Know

knickknack:

Stunning print design for Nokia by Socio Design

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Meet Dr. NakaMats, the world’s most prolific inventor. He trumps Edison by a ratio of 3-to-1 and invented, among other things, the CD, the DVD, and the karaoke machine.

newsstand:

uxurls is a single page aggregator for UX news feeds. The page format is similar to popurls, and is intended for people who are too busy to set themselves up with their own RSS reader, or just…

overkast:

35 Excellent Wireframing Resources - Smashing Magazine

ワイヤーフレームのリソース集

Anne Kaikkonen, a UI product manager at Nokia, recently presented her doctoral dissertation on the usability and user experience of the mobile internet.

Internet on Mobiles: Evolution of Usability and User Experience (pdf)
Dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy presented at Helsinki University of Technology (Espoo, Finland) on 11 December 2009.

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yahnyinlondon:

If you’ve ever had to apply for something which requires credit history, then you’ve probably seen this type of form. Unfortunately, it’s almost always done badly.

Rich Amos has documented a more elegant, user friendly approach to this type of form. Ben Bashford and myself chipped in with some feedback based on our experiences.

parkparadigm:

oblong industries, inc.

…a glimpse at the future of UI.

jesseddy:

Better User Experience With Storytelling – Part One

ijulien:

Whitney Hess writes about designing the new Boxee interface.

Sync/Lost is a multi-user installation for immersion in the history of electronic music.
The installation can be used by three users simultaneously, with wiimote and headphones/soundspeakers. Each one interacts by choosing a style on the interface.
Made with Processing. More info: 3bits.net/synclost/

marxepunx:

By: Noah Brier

Strategy Over at House of Naked, my friend and former colleague Jared wrote a post asking whether the world needs digital strategists. I’ll let him summarize:

My simple vision of the future? Planning departments hire people who are especially adept on the information superhighway, while training up whomever they feel is getting left behind. Don’t make digital strategy a specialty, make it cost-of-entry to all planners. After all, for all of its complexities, the digital world is just another platform that’s part of our world — not an alternate universe. Not surprisingly, I have a few thoughts on the subject.

For those that don’t know me, I run the strategy department here at The Barbarian Group. Anyway, first off let me say that broadly I don’t disagree with Jared, many functions of strategy (especially problem definition and insight-based stuff) is the same no matter what medium you’re working within. I also agree that there is a real danger in disconnecting all these different departments and have them all running in different directions. However, I don’t know that I think not dividing by skillset is the answer. Also, one last caveat before my thoughts: I feel no need to defend digital strategy, it’s just a word and I’m not really worried about job titles. It might be the contrarian in me, but I just felt a need to respond when I read Jared’s post.

So … Here are my thoughts:

1. It imagines an idealized view of strategy as something pristine and not touching creative. This is not reality. Strategists come up with ideas too and it’s been my experience that people who don’t use the internet much don’t come up with great internet ideas.

2. To me it kind of suggests that no division of labor should happen within strategy, which I definitely disagree with. I think few would argue that there is a place for media strategists, since media buying and selling has its own ins and outs. That same could be said for brand strategy. It’s not that these things don’t work together or that your average strategist couldn’t hold their own playing these rolls, but it seems the industry has decided that they’re better off as specialists. In thinking about point two, I actually came to my real conclusion on this: The split between digital strategy and traditional strategy (or whatever you want to call it), is not based on the medium but based on the product. It’s about advertising strategists versus experience strategists, and I definitely think there is a place for that distinction. Here at TBG Justin (head of UX) and myself have had many conversations about the overlap between our departments. Our goals as a department are the same and reflect the goals of the company as a whole: Build awesome things that people will use and enjoy. Though our deliverables may be distinct, how we approach that problem is similar: We dig in with whatever we can get our hands on (users, the brand, content) and look for insights that will drive how the brand behaves. Anyway, I would argue (and am right now) that understanding the messages that resonates with people (advertising) is far different than understanding the experience (digital). (I’m generalizing here a bit, obviously digital can include advertising, but I am speaking from my own experience at The Barbarian Group, a company that mostly focuses on building experiences.)

So yeah, that’s my two cents for what it’s worth.