Breadcrumb Navigation Increasingly Useful
“Breadcrumbs use a single line of text to show a page’s location in the site hierarchy. While secondary, this navigation technique is increasingly beneficial to users.” (Jakob Nielsen – Alertbox)
Framework of Product Experience
“In this paper, we introduce a general framework for product experience that applies to all affective responses that can be experienced in human-product interaction. Three distinct components or levels of product experiences are discussed: aesthetic experience, experience of meaning, and emotional experience. All three components are distinguished in having their own lawful underlying process. The aesthetic level involves a product’s capacity to delight one or more of our sensory modalities. The meaning level involves our ability to assign personality or other expressive characteristics and to assess the personal or symbolic significance of products. The emotional level involves those experiences that are typically considered in emotion psychology and in everyday language about emotions, such as love and anger, which are elicited by the appraised relational meaning of products. The framework indicates patterns for the processes that underlie the different types of affective product experiences, which are used to explain the personal and layered nature of product experience.” (Pieter Desmet & Paul Hekkert – Int.’l Journal of Design 1.1) – courtesy of markvanderbeeken
Interaction Design Style
“It’s been a little less than a week since my IA Summit presentation. To my great surprise, it went really well. In the next day or so I will be posting a summary of my experiences preparing and discussing my topic, which was, in a word, style. Many people came to me after my presentation asking me not only to post the slides themselves, but also to post the reading list since I did discuss a lot of books and sites that deeply influenced my thinking. So here’s all the stuff: (…)” (Christopher Fahey – graphpaper.com)
Information Design Conference 2007
“Here is a very short summary of the contents of the conference. (…) It is likely that audio recordings and slides of several of these talks will soon be available from the IDA website.” (Information Design Association)
Thoughts on Interaction Design
“It is the primary goal of this text to better define Interaction Design: to provide a definition that encompasses the intellectual facets of the field, the conceptual underpinnings of Interaction Design as a legitimate human-centered profession, and the particular methods used by practitioners in their day to day experiences” (Jon Kolko et al.)
UX Methods
“The cards briefly describe 16 different methods, deliverables, and ideas that user experience professionals can use in their practice.” (Jess McCullin – nForm)
Shared Presentations from the IA Summit 2007
“Slideshows for tag: iasummit2007.” (SlideShare) – courtesy of elearningpost
Ruining the User Experience
“There’s a lot we, as designers of the web experience, can learn from something as simple as a water glass.” (Aaron Gustafson – A List Apart)
Content Strategy: The Philosophy of Data
“(…) content strategy is to copywriting as information architecture is to design.” (Rachel Lovinger – Boxes and Arrows)
Effective Prototyping for Software Makers
“This book will help software makers – developers, designers, and architects – build effective prototypes every time: prototypes that convey enough information about the product at the appropriate time and thus set expectations appropriately. This practical, informative book will help anyone – whether or not one has artistic talent, access to special tools, or programming ability – to use good prototyping style, methods, and tools to build prototypes and manage for effective prototyping.” (The Book)
Does User Annoyance Matter?
“Making users suffer a drop-down menu to enter state abbreviations is one of many small annoyances that add up to a less efficient, less pleasant user experience. It’s worth fixing as many of these usability irritants as you can.” (Jakob Nielsen – Alertbox)
Learning Interaction Design from Las Vegas
“My SXSW 2007 presentation. People seemed to like it. Sam Felder’s transcription of the talk. Podcast supposedly coming from SXSW eventually.” (Dan Saffer – odannyboy)
LEMTool: Measuring emotions during interaction
“The project is about developing a web based measurement tool to measure emotions during interactions with websites. This is a long sentence with many important words, but it’s basically about an appliance that helps web designers improve the user experience. A better experience will satisfy the user and will most likely improve his or her thoughts and certainly feelings about the owner of the website. All of this results in trust, loyalty, credibility, profitability and returning customers that are willing to purchase products.” (Kevin Capota – Design & Emotion)
Experiencing and Experience
“Technology, from my father’s point of view, was always be an extension and enrichment of experience not a substitute for experience. (…) One of his great gifts as a speaker was the fact that he made you experience his ideas and carried you along with the connection between your experience and his experience. ‘Information is experience. Experience is information.'” (Allegra Fuller Snyder – The Buckminster Fuller Institute)
Intelligent Designs
“When information needs to be communicated, Edward Tufte demands both truth and beauty.” (STANFORD Magazine)
User Research Doesn’t Prove Anything
“Recently, I was reading through a sample chapter of a soon-to-be-published book. The book and author shall remain nameless, as shall the book’s topic. However, I was disappointed to read, in what otherwise appeared at first glance to be an interesting publication, a very general, sweeping statement to the effect that qualitative research doesn’t prove anything and, if you want proof, you should perform quantitative research. The author’s basic assumption was that qualitative research can’t prove anything, as it is based on small sample sizes, but quantitative research, using large sample sizes, does provide proof. This may come as a shock to everyone, but quantitative research does not provide proof of anything either.” (Steve Baty – UXmatters)
Wireframing With Patterns
“When you’re starting out as an information architect (IA), being part of a strong community of fellow practitioners helps immensely. A little over a year ago, on Sunday, February 22, 2006, I participated in an informal workshop on wireframing techniques that took place here in Toronto. Bryce Johnson, Director of User Experience Design at Navantis Inc., facilitated and hosted the workshop at his workplace. The knowledge sharing and the wireframing best practices that emerged from the workshop, plus the sense of community I experienced there, helped me build a foundation as an information architect and got me started on developing my own design workflow. Now, I’d like to share the techniques I’ve learned with a broader community of information architects.” (Lindsay Ellerby – UXmatters)
Winning Against Linux The Smart Way
Including related podcast – “Tune in to learn about how to proactively and effectively sell to Linux users in the mid-market space. We’ve recently completed Linux Persona market research that groups Linux users into 5 personas. Find out what each persona means and how you can use our new screening tool to profile your own customers. – (…) this tutorial will provide you with extensive interactive content that you may require as you apply the personas in the sales and marketing aspects of your business.” (Microsoft) – courtesy of slashdot
The Experience Evolution: Developments in Design Practice 
“Designers today have opportunities to design much more than simply static objects. We are designing integrated and dynamic interactions with objects, spaces and services and helping companies with more strategic decisions. Expanded opportunities have spawned developments in traditional design practice.” (Jane Fulton Suri – IDEO)
Tools for Experience Design
“This is a project-based studio course in which students from a variety of disciplines work together in small teams on a quarter-long design project. It attempts to answer the question, ‘How do you support the innovation design process in a complex world with tangible, real world solutions?’.” (Hasso Plattner Institute of Design)