Posts Tagged ‘UX’

17/11/2009 - Blogger.Iconshock

Popular UX design Myths

Not long ago, I was talking with a UX designer going over some issues revolving a new app. Along the conversation, the guy made remarks on how testing was superfluous and overrated. Each time he had the chance, he took the shot at saying that interface and software testing just raised the production costs, and how testing could be eliminated by great development. At first I thought it was a joke and didn’t put any attention, but by the third time he mentioned it I just had to ask. And I found out it was no laughing matter to him. You can imagine we don’t work with the guy anymore.

As incredible as it may seem, there are tons of UX design myths in practice out there, and our friend Keith Lang took the task of putting them into the spotlight for the Carsonified blog. Enjoy!.

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10/11/2009 - Blogger.Iconshock

Is there a “correct” way of conducting usability research?

I just found out this pretty controversial article by Anders Toxbow for “UI patterns”.

In this article he debates between two ways of user testing; Testing and usability research by the same developers who are building the product, or testing and research by unbiased users… Is it a matter of from or concept? Pick your side.

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06/11/2009 - Blogger.Iconshock

Common usability mistakes

I thought I was the only one that hated tiny links! Check out this not so glamorous list by Dmitry Fadeyev for Smashing Magazine, where he exposes for us the ultimate and most popular sins of interface design.

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05/11/2009 - Blogger.Iconshock

Techniques for good interface design

Dmitry Fadeyev made this article for Smashing Magazine where he gives us a very interesting 12 point list that explores the use of AJAX, the implementation of Keyboard shortcuts, signup lists and much more. A very interesting read for developers.

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