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Most recent articles from Frank Spillers' "Demystifying Usability" Blog
- Designing for the multi-user: missed by Apple, Google and others
- Are your users dumb or are your designers the dummies?
- Does it take Einstein to design for the most important task?
- Dr. Seuss on iPad usability
- Should your UX person act as Product Owner in Agile?
- Get ready for these new User Interface innovations
- Does Agile move too fast for Usability?
- Social Circles- the beginning of the intelligent social interface?
- 10 years in pursuit of exceptional user experience
- Figuring out how to deal with Stupid Users
- Is your design Evolutionary or Revolutionary?
- My top 3 User Experience Blog posts of 2010
- User Experience Calendar 2011- shipping now!
- Design technique: use containership to shape user experience
- Design and Emotion: Designing for Mood
- Do top and bottom Web page toolbars add Clutter?
- New Study- Gender differences in Web Usability
- 5 Task-Centered Design Patterns Competitors are Employing to Out-gun Your Design
- Facebook's Privacy FAIL: Lessons for Designing Privacy in Social Networks
- 5 Problems with Borrowing Design Ideas from Apple (and others)
- Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss! (usability ode to the good doctor)
- The Science of Fun: How Fun Helps Improve Your Design
- User Experience Calendar for 2010...Just Released!
- Making Things Easier with Tablet computing?
- The Real-Time Web- thoughts on delivering the Real-Time user experience
- What's next in mobile user experience? Augmented Reality
- 7 Steps to Avoiding User Adoption Problems with Site Redesigns
- Privacy: your biggest user experience challenge
- How relying on 'user education' is a failed strategy
- Competitor designs: The danger of borrowing across contexts
- President Obama: Vision for Usability?
- Intro to Emotion Design- Pleasurability and Emotional Design
- Usability 2.0?
- 8 Things you need to know about improving online experience- new study
- What color do you like? The usability of look and feel (strategy with icons, images, branding elements)
- Design Like You Give a Damn!- Sustainable Design
- "Forcing functions"- interaction design technique, used but not widely understood
- Warning: Third-party Usability is Bad for your Health
- AJAX Usability Checklist (Free holiday bonus for our readers)
- What is Design? (Yes, all 10 definitions!)
- Multi-modal design: Gesture, Touch and Mobile devices...next big thing?
- Is Google's business model Progressive Disclosure??
- "Feature frenzy"- 10 tips to getting feature creep under control
- Is Usability a Public Relations problem?
- Personas LIVE! Transcript- Interview with Frank Spillers, Tamara Adlin and John Pruitt
- Usability Testing methods- What are we observing and why? (World Usability Day 2006 Event)
- What is Emotion Design? (A practical definition)
- The Importance of User Experience- the Poster!
- Designing for the "Average User"
- Web 2.0: A glimpse into the future?
- Configuration Hell- The Case for the Plug and Play User Experience
- The Politics of Pop-Ups, Pop-Up Blockers and the Pop-Up Error Message
- How to avoid being blinded by your own design: Seeing the Forest for the Trees
- How many users should you test with in usability testing? (Latest Research)
- Eye-Tracking studies- Usability holy grail?
- Electoral Ethnography
- Design and Emotion
- Telematics Usability-Coming to a Car Near You
- Graphic Design vs. Usability
- How Usable is Jakob Nielsen?
- Progressive Disclosure- the best interaction design technique?
- Methodology or Mythology?
- Are you hiring what you think you are hiring?
- The Future is Usable: New Communication devices
- Ad conversion rate influenced by time (not click rate)
- Patenting usability improvements- going over the top?
- Email Marketing- New Legislation
- Site Search can be flattened by Usability
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