“Each discipline can only go so far with the constraints they work under, and we have to watch each other’s backs and cover for the flaws of each other. Users don’t care whose fault it is that a product works poorly, only that it works poorly.”

All together now!

The biggest change: user profiles on the service will evolve from a single, flat and often cluttered page into four tabbed sub-pages dubbed feed, info, photos and applications.

Edelleen ajankohtainen.

“If you look at how most consultant talk, you’d think they hated English, had a personal vendetta against it, as they seem to take such pride in burying clear thinking under layers of vacuous, disingenuous jargon.”

If you don’t have the resources of a large UX team, undertake small, tactical, iterative user research activities throughout the course of the project.

The original web developer’s resource has returned. Webmonkey has been completely redesigned, and they’re ready to rock once more.

“In many ways, the megacommunity model is the first attempt to propose that we really need to think in terms of more complex organizational forms than we are used to, in order to gain traction on problems that are more complex than we are used to.”

In many instances, you need to communicate to your user some aspect of time, such as remaining time or estimated completion time. How you express time in UI can determine how your user experiences and perceives your solution.

“What does an ‘educated’ person look like in the 21st century? Are traditional literacy skills enough? Having a clear focus as to what it means to be ‘digitally literate’ would enable schools to synthesise the traditional and the new more effectively.”

Brainstorming rules apply even in the virtual space. Some good tips on how it can be done.

Marketing planner’s thoughts on user experience design and user-centred approach. Hilarious.

10 tips for business professionals who want to experience the many delights of Facebook without making a fool of themselves. Spend some time to get to know how it works and what is acceptable behaviour (for business professionals) and what is not.

Somebody should write someting similar for Finnish people as well.

“Imagine that you spent thousands of dollars to design a website. Thousands more to develop it. And still thousands more to promote it. Then imagine that when people actually visited, one-third left because the writing was so bad.”

Part one of an article presenting a number of ways to implement powerful prototyping methods on-the-cheap. But how about easy?

“Toss your Power Point.” This is great!

“If we introduce editorial skills into every project at the scoping stage, we can achieve better final products and avoid the typical and unnecessary delays around content delivery.”