In this week’s issue of our email newsletter, UIEtips, we published a fantastic article written by Luke Wroblewski, a Principal Designer at Yahoo!, where he discusses tips for improving web forms and impacting user success.
Read Luke Wroblewski’s article on Web Forms.
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In this interview, Kevin Cheng and Jared Spool discuss the use of comics to express user experience ideas early in the brainstorming stage of a project. Comics show the team how a user will experience the design.

 

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Embiggen, a made-up word for a Simpson’s episode, found its way into an options screen at Flickr. We think that’s a perfectly cromulent fairy door.

This week, Christine Perfetti asks Jared Spool about User Interface Engineering’s groundbreaking study on download time. In this study, we found the actual download time of a page didn’t impact a site’s usability.

 

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It’s hard enough to create a successful user experience when you can control every aspect of the customer interaction . Can Apple (or anyone else for that matter) create truly amazing experiences when they need to work through partners? That is yet to be seen.

Jared M. Spool details the seven essential long-term components to reach a successful redesign project, and avoid costly changes that don’t enhance the site’s user experience or help the business.

I’m betting, on June 29, 2007, there was a team of developers inside Apple corporation who were not very cheery about the successful launch of the iPhone. I’m betting, if such things were available, they were wearing their “Why not us?” t-shirts.

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.

 

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Someone in eBay’s user experience group must’ve rubbed the belly of a magic lamp last quarter, because a wish was definitely granted.

This week Jared interviews Eric Mattson, innovative marketer, social media researcher and serial podcaster.

 

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