7 Essential Guidelines For Functional Design

By Dustin M. Wax
Look at what you’ve made. Beautiful, isn’t it? But does it work? For whom does it work? Of course you can use it, but can anyone else? In short, is it functional?
At the heart of every piece of practical design, whether it be a website, product package, office building, manufacturing system, piece [...]

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UIEtips: 12 Best Practices for UX in an Agile Environment - Part 2

We’ve been working with a ton of teams in transition to an Agile development process lately and we’ve been trying to understand why many of them are frustrated by the change. They’re struggling with how to adapt their existing user experience practices into this new method of development and I think we know why.
In the [...]

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SpoolCast: UX in an Agile Environment with Jeff Patton

SpoolCast: UX in an Agile Environment with Jeff Patton
Recorded: July 25th, 2008
Brian Christiansen, UIE Podcast Producer
Duration: 43m | File size: 24 MB
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The Agile development process is about breaking things into small [...]

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Fervens: A Free Wordpress Theme

If you have been following Smashing Magazine for a while you know that we love to release high-quality freebies. Over the last years we’ve featured a number of designers and developers who released their work for free. You can find many of them in our section Freebies.
Every release helps to make the Web a nicer [...]

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