In last week’s podcast, we talked about Gallery Pages, which are pages with links to the site’s content pages. This week, Christine asked me about two other types of pages: Department pages and Store pages. These pages become crucial when an information-rich site has thousands (and sometimes millions) of pages.
This week the crew discusses a controversial blog posting, the role of usability research in product development, and experience design vision work and its application in the consumer and enterprise space.
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.
If you’re challenged with creating innovative designs, Christine highly suggests you check out Scott Berkun’s writings on the subject. Scott is the author of the new book, The Myths of Innovation, and an expert when it comes to the history 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 [...]
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.
Have your expectations of something ever been so low that they have nowhere to go but up? While I was on my recent trip in Europe, I stopped at a rest area in Germany and found this nifty toilet in the bathroom.
It didn’t look like much at first, but then I noticed the blue [...]
Our Macintosh-using readers out there may have heard the buzz this week about a new web development app from Panic, Inc., called Coda. What’s interesting here is not that there’s YAWDA (yet another web development app) but the Panic team’s experience-centric approach to their products.
Ashley McKee points out a few simple ways to create loyal customers.
Ashley McKee discusses an article by Jeff Patton in which he outlines the buyer head and the user head, two aspects of human behavior that surface when encountering new products.
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