We stumbled upon a gallery of design patterns today hosted on Flickr, thanks to Chris Messina of Citizen Agency.

For our recent Field Studies Virtual Seminar attendees and anyone interested in learning more about Field Research, here is Kate Gomoll’s list of resources on Field Studies. You can also expect a new UIE Research Report detailing the ins and outs of the entire Field Study process from Kate and her colleagues, Ellen Story Church [...]

Our friends at the highly respected A List Apart have come out this week with an article near and dear to us, Paper Prototyping.
…the prototyping stage is the right time to catch design flaws and change directions, and the flexibility and disposability of paper encourages experimentation and speedy iteration. Instead of “deleting” hours worth of [...]

This slide deck from Amy Jo Kim, Creative Director for game designer ShuffleBrain, has a great description of what makes games fun and how it could enhance your designs.

User experience teams serve the various product groups within the organization, helping them create the best possible product or service. This can only happen if the team has a great relationship with the group.

Few people are as full of surprises as Todd Warfel, who brings us an ingenious 3-foot wide communication tool.

Jared’s Webmaster Jam session, Why Good Content Must Suck, is now available online.

We’re a little more than two weeks away from the start of the UI11 Conference and we’re just putting the finishing touches on everything. If you’ve been hearing about the conference but can’t attend, you can do the next best thing and order a full set of conference proceedings on CD.

In February, a blind University of California-Berkeley student sued Target over the discount retailer’s web site. last week, a judge ruled that the lawsuit could go forward. What does this mean for web site design everywhere?

Hans Rosling is a professor of International Health at the Karolinka Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden. At TED, he presented probably one of the coolest information visualization talks you’ll ever see. He really shows what you can do when you pay attention to how you describe the story with charts.