UIEtips 7/31/07: Common Pitfalls of Social Web Applications, Part II
This week, UIE turns 19 years old. Over the years, we’ve seen technology come and go, features grow and shrink, and interaction styles dramatically change.
What used to be just a person interacting with a screen has become something more — people interacting with other people, [...]

In this week’s article, UIE’s Christine Perfetti sat down with Scott to talk about his new book and his research in the area of innovation.

UIEtips 7/16/07: Learning from the Facebook Mini-Feed Disaster
When teams make critical feature changes in their designs, there’s always a risk of backlash from loyal users. That’s what happened to Facebook, the social networking site, a few months ago. Facebook’s designers created the mini feed, an exciting new feature that promised to offer users a vastly [...]

Ashley McKee recently had the opportunity to talk with Kevin Cheng about the increasing popularity of using comics in the design process, the five inherent properties of successful comics, the skills needed to create comics, and the best way to deliver comics to key stakeholders.

UIEtips 7/3/07: Ten Ways to Kill Good Design
One way to improve designs is to focus on changes that will produce better quality results. If you can identify areas in your work where you could be more efficient, you will immediately see a benefit.
That’s why this issue’s feature article is about the mistakes we repeatedly see [...]

UIEtips 6/26/07: Web Application Form Design Luke Wroblewski discusses how variations in the alignment of input fields, labels, calls to action, and their surrounding visual elements can support or impair different aspects of user behavior.

UIEtips 6/19/07: Knowledge Navigator Deconstructed: Building an Envisionment Jared M. Spool discusses how a successful envisionment that focuses on the user’s ideal experience can lead a design team’s direction for years to come, and explores the many creative techniques for making that vision clear to everyone involved on the project.

UIEtips 6/14/07: Common Pitfalls of Building Social Web Applications and How to Avoid Them UIE’s Joshua Porter outlines 4 of the most prevalent mistakes designers make when creating social web applications, and explains how to avoid making them yourself.

Jared M. Spool discussed some of these unrecognized benefits of persona creation.

How can design teams ensure they continue to focus on their users first? In our research, we’ve found that many successful teams are solving the problem by creating an experience vision.