UIEtips 12/13/06: Watch and Learn: Recommendation Systems are Redefining the Web In this issue of UIEtips, Josh Porter dives into the fast-emerging world of recommendation systems. You’ll discover what Josh thinks are the most important benefits of these systems, what their serious drawbacks are, and where recommendation systems will be going in the future.

In this week’s UIEtips, Larry has written an excellent article describing activity modeling and usage-centered application design. Larry discusses how designers can satisfy their users’ needs by focusing on the activities users are trying to accomplish.

UIEtips 12/06/06: Tips for Designing Powerful RIAs: An Interview with David Malouf and Bill Scott In this issue of UIEtips, we’ve put together some of the best parts of the discussion Jared Spool and Josh Porter recently had with Bill Scott and David Malouf. You’ll read what David and Bill think about choosing AJAX versus Flash, what’s a good starting point for learning these technologies, and how design patterns can help with the development process.

BSAL #6: Designing Powerful and Interactive Web Applications, an interview with David Malouf and Bill Scott

In this interview, UIE’s Joshua Porter and Jared Spool talk with David Malouf, Senior User Experience Designer at Symbol Technologies, and Bill Scott, Ajax Evangelist and Design Manager for Yahoo’s recently released Design Pattern Library. They discuss Rich Internet Application development, Ajax, and other important issues surrounding the creation of sophisticated web apps.

One feature that has been absent from web applications until recently is the ability to use them offline. David Malouf points us to Zimbra, which recently added the feature. Maybe we can have our web app cake and eat it, too.

UIEtips 11/30/06: Web 2.0: The Power Behind the Hype

In this week’s UIEtips, we’re re-printing an article Jared Spool wrote last year, where he discusses the power of API’s, RSS, Folksonomies, and Social Networking.

If your design team has been considering using patterns or wondering how they might be useful in your projects, check out this article with Bill Scott of Yahoo in .NET magazine:
Designing with Patterns
We’re lucky to have Bill speaking at our upcoming Web App Summit this January in Monterey, CA. He knows a tremendous amount about [...]

But what happens when they’re one in the same? What happens when the user is the developer, and vice versa? It turns out to be a powerful combination that leads to unseen advantages that those building for others don’t have (and might not be able to duplicate).

(Part of a series on Web App Trends. See also: Fast Iterations)

UIEtips 11/14/06: The Freedom of Fast Iterations: How Netflix Designs a Winning Web Site

In today’s article, Josh Porter describes one aspect of Netflix’s culture responsible for their success: Fast iterations. Because they are constantly trying new ideas, they can quickly outmaneuver their competition and stay ahead of the game..

Earlier this month, the New York Times Technology Writer, David Pogue, wrote a fine little review of Apple’s iPod Shuffle.

Here’s what he said…