User Interface 13 conference is just over 2 months away. World-class speakers like Kim Goodwin, Luke Wroblewski, Jeremy Keith, Scott Berkun, Bill Verplank, and others will be attending and presenting on today’s most critical issues surrounding web design, information architecture, and usability. Would you like to help us out? UI13 is being held from October [...]

Several years ago, we came to the realization that there are eight distinct types of navigation pages that a user may encounter, as they work through a web site, trying to locate their target content. Since then, our research consistently shows that the designers who understand these different page types are far more likely to [...]

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 [...]

The Agile development process is about breaking things into small pieces and acting on each piece really quickly. Yet, traditional user experience practices aren’t used to working fast. How do we adjust our practices to survive in a fast-paced agile process?

That’s the question we posted to Jeff Patton, the noted independent UX/Agile consultant and speaker, who joined me on this week’s show.

 

 UX in an Agile Environment [42:55m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

When shooting the movie, the director doesn’t necessary film the scenes in the order they’ll appear once edited. Instead, the filmmakers shoot the pieces according to other constraints, such as the availability of actors or locations, or accommodating variability in the weather. It’s not unusual for the movie’s final climax to be among the first [...]

“Can you make the logo bigger?” Heard that one before? So have we. This week, we talk with Yahoo!’s Luke Wroblewski, an expert on visual design on the web, about the misconceptions that about around this topic!

 

 SpoolCast: Visual Design Misconceptions with Luke Wroblewski [33:34m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Brian Christiansen and I recorded a special episode comprised entirely of questions from our customers. On July 17, we held the UIE Virtual Seminar: The Scent of a Web Page—The Five Types of Navigation Pages. During the seminar, we received far more questions than time would allow answering. As is tradition, we put together this follow-up podcast to answer even more of your excellent questions.

 

 SpoolCast: Followup Q&A from the Scent of a Web Page [24:30m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

It’s easy for design teams to get trapped in the day-to-day grind of improving the designs they are working on. You tweak this image, clean up that text, relabel the button to make more sense — all important things to make incremental improvements.
Yet, it would be impossible to see radical, major innovations come from that [...]

In this episode of Usability Tools, Brian Christiansen and I continue on how to moderate a usability test.

 

 Usability Tools Podcast: Moderating Usability Tests, Part 2 [34:10m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

August may mean the Dog Days of Summer, but we have another great UIE Virtual Seminar for you that we think you’ll find very cool:
Galleries: The Hardest Working Pages on Your Site
Date: August 14th, 2008 — 1pm ET / Noon CT / 11am MT / 10am PT
As we continue our series on Designing for [...]