UIEtips: Baking Social Interfaces Into Your Design

Some days, I sit and wonder what it will be like for our children’s children. After all, our parents’ parents didn’t think that houses came with plumbing. So what will our grandkids think?
Computers, it seems, are here to stay for a while. However, they’re getting smaller, ubiquitous, and are far more connected. We’re already [...]

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SpoolCast: Bill Scott’s Desiging for Interesting Moments: Live!

Duration: 15:41m | 9 MB
Recorded: March, 2010
Brian Christiansen, UIE Podcast Producer
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There are more than 16 different events and 96 interesting moments in a common drag and drop interaction. Your designs must leverage these moments [...]

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Web App Masters: When Worlds Collide

What are the ingredients that drive teams to deliver consistently good experiences? Does the company size, business processes, organizational management, or executive management have anything to do with it?
For the past 10 years, Jared Spool and our research team at User Interface Engineering studied the secrets behind successful teams and the factors driving their [...]

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UIEtips: Part 4 – Interviews with Web App Masters Christian Crumlish, Erin Malone, and Ken Kellogg

The time has come to wrap up the final part of the Web App Masters interview series. Today we feature Ken Kellogg from Marriott and the authors of Designing Social Interfaces, Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone.
Ken Kellogg’s podcast talks about navigating the design process within a large corporate world, and how customer research plays [...]

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UIEtips: Part 2 – Interviews with Web App Masters Hagan Rivers and Stephen Anderson

Recently in UIEtips, we featured part 1 of the Interviews with the Masters. Julie Zhuo shared how Facebook handles design changes and public reaction to these changes. If you didn’t get a chance to listen, Julie’s podcast shares some fascinating Facebook processes that you’ll want to hear.
Bill Scott’s podcast looked at design patterns and rich [...]

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