Julie Zhuo is the principal designer behind the Facebook Platform and Facebook Connect experiences, and has contributed to the last two major site redesigns. She sat down to chat with our Jared Spool.

How can we design systems that encourage the behaviors we want? In this episode, Jared speaks with Stephen Anderson about using human psychology in web apps to encourage users’ behavior.

Good news, everyone.
We’ve lined up two more Masters for our UIE Web App Masters Tour. We’re thrilled to announce Bill Scott and Ken Kellogg will be joining us.

Bill Scott
First, let me say this: Bill is the nicest person on the entire planet. You’ll notice this the moment you talk to him. But that’s not [...]

Hot off the presses! We’ve just finalized two more Masters for the UIE Web App Masters Tour, Julie Zhuo and Christian Crumlish. We’re thrilled they can join us.

Julie Zhuo
The designers at Facebook try hard to make Facebook users happy. It’s a hard-to-please audience, and there’s 350 million of them. As Facebook’s Product Design Manager, [...]

Join us January 12 for our next webinar: Leveraging Search & Discovery Patterns For Great Online Experiences, with Peter Morville and Mark Burrell.

We published a lot of great articles during 2009. We featured guest writers, published interviews, and wrote numerous articles on the research we’ve done.
At year’s end, it’s common to reflect and revisit what you’ve done. We thought about the articles that had the biggest impact and really got people thinking.
Even if some readers didn’t agree [...]

Your organization spends considerable resources to get people to come to your site. Does your site do what it needs to once they get there?
Your users’ experience is a fluid event that frequently starts someplace like Google and, if you’re lucky, ends with them accomplishing their objective at your site. The goal is to make [...]

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You’ve just been asked to moderate a usability test. Whether it’s
your first or your 199th, do you know how to do it and capture the
best results? Will you be able to start it without a lump in your
throat, or without being distracted by the thought that your every
move is being watched? We’re bringing an expert [...]

In our next UIE Virtual Seminar, Recruiting for Usability Testing on Wednesday, September 30, usability testing expert Dana Chisnell shows you how to maximize your time and money on the right participants to get the right results.  
User experience research lives or dies by the appropriateness of the participants in the study.
UX researchers just don’t [...]