Ashley McKee points out a series of articles by Leisa Reichelt that discuss accepting the unscientific qualities of qualitative research, and using qualitative research as a flexible way to gather rich and insightful information about your intended audience.

Jonathan Murphy details the exciting aspects of carewords from Gerry McGovern’s latest book “Killer Web Content.”

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 [...]

Ashley McKee recently had the opportunity to talk with Kevin Cheng about the increasing popularity of using comics in the design process, the five inherent properties of successful comics, the skills needed to create comics, and the best way to deliver comics to key stakeholders.

UIEtips 6/26/07: Web Application Form Design Luke Wroblewski discusses how variations in the alignment of input fields, labels, calls to action, and their surrounding visual elements can support or impair different aspects of user behavior.

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.

Kate Gomoll is president and founder of Gomoll Research & Design. Back in March, we hosted Kate for a UIE Virtual Seminar on Field Studies, and recorded a followup podcast. We thought Kate’s insights were so useful that we’ve decided to share them with all of our SpoolCast listeners.

 

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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 [...]

Ashley McKee points out an article by Leisa Reichelt about the troubles of poorly worded dialogue boxes, and shares an error message Jared Spool recently experienced while in Norway.

UIEtips 6/14/07: Common Pitfalls of Building Social Web Applications and How to Avoid Them UIE’s Joshua Porter outlines 4 of the most prevalent mistakes designers make when creating social web applications, and explains how to avoid making them yourself.