UIEtips: The Site Map - An Information Architecture Cop-Out

The design process is filled with tradeoffs. We have to decide what functions are in and what functions are left on the cutting room floor. We have to decide how we’re going to present the functions to the user and what we’re going to hide from them. And we have to decide what problems we’re [...]

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SpoolCast: Creating a Culture of Innovation with Scott Berkun

SpoolCast: Creating a Culture of Innovation with Scott Berkun
Recorded: July 23rd, 2008
Brian Christiansen, UIE Podcast Producer
Duration: 31m | File size: 17.5 MB
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“We’re struggling with how to measure how well we are [...]

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Deafness and the User Experience

Because of limited awareness around Deafness and accessibility in the web community, it seems plausible to many of us that good captioning will fix it all. It won’t. Before we can enhance the user experience for all deaf people, we must understand that the needs of deaf, hard of hearing, and big-D Deaf users are [...]

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Putting Our Hot Heads Together

The web is a conversation, but not always a productive one. Web discussions too often degenerate into whines, jabs, sour grapes, and one-upmanship. How can we transform discussion forums and comment sections from shooting ranges into arenas of collaboration?
 
Hide Your Shame: The A List Apart Store and T-Shirt Emporium is back. Hot new designs! Old [...]

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Who Do You Design For: Clients or Users?

By Brian Haught
If you close your eyes and think back to the first design fundamentals class you ever took hopefully you remember the instructor saying,”When beginning a design ask yourself who is your audience? If you don’t know who you are designing for then how can you design anything at all?”
Fast forward to the present. [...]

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