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This wiki aims to be the authoritative resource for all things related to the art and science of mobile user interface design.

STRATEGY of GIVING is a brilliantly simple theory that explains why companies need to give more to get more. The theory is packed in a simple easy-to-read format with informative graphics. SoG takes only an hour to read and two hours to master.

It’s more about doing things differently and learning about the results than talking about results and doing the same usual things with different tools.

For nearly all organizations, the best approach is to (1) add some light social features that encourage interaction around your content to your own site and/or (2) participate in established, external social networks.

”As people share the bookmarks in the organization with their tags and annotations, they realize quickly they are becoming a valuable conduit to helping others find information and grasp the value they will derive from being a resource that adds value.”

These are great! Soon I’ll have yet another remote lying around.

Hours of endless fun!

The big danger with building accessible websites is to assume that there’s a default configuration, and chose solutions that enforce the expectation of a particular configuration. We can make some sensible design choices without resorting to expectation.

When we multi-task, we are motivated by a desire to be more productive and more efficient. In the case of continuous partial attention, we’re motivated by a desire not to miss anything.

GyPSii allows users to share their real life experiences in the virtual world using mobile devices and the web. It is a social networking, search & location based suite of integrated mobile and web applications.

5 content-related usability fixes that are relatively painless but can have a big impact.

Tips for effectively managing profiles and contacts on social networking sites, finding people with relevant interests, working between multiple social networking sites, and getting the most out of social networking tools even if you’re not a techie.

Onko ”Living Lab” -käsitteellä ylimalkaan jokin hyödyllinen ja omaleimainen merkitys, vai onko se vain stiiknafuuliaa, tyhjänpäiväistä koreilua jolla koetetaan peittää olematon sisältö, kysyy HIITin Martti Mäntylä.

”Here are five social mobiles, that in different ways modify their users behaviour to make it less disruptive. We have not designed these handsets as actual products – their function is to provoke discussion about the social impact of mobile phones.”

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”I keep hearing horror stories of brands insisting on launching their own social networks. The short version of this post: don’t do it. We really don’t care. Really. We. Don’t. Care.”

”The definition of Usability for developers: I’ll give you a bonus if you make software that meets out customers needs, is coded as simply and securely as possible, has no known bugs, and works the same way on all the platforms we support.”

Standards, by themselves, are not in any way equivalent to ”appropriate” or ”good”. They enable one program to understand what has been notated in another program, but they don’t actually dictate a lot about how that code is actually used.

Beyond Web applications and social media, the nature of the user experiences we design is changing profoundly in other ways that will make ethics and conflict more important concerns for the UX practitioners.

Due to the incredible increase in both product and system complexity, it is more important than ever for industrial designers to step up and engage more directly with interaction design focused on the behaviors between products, systems and humans.

”To formalize a definition of usability, I offer up the following: ’the result of actions taken after observing, listening, and learning from real users who are actively engaged in pursuit of a real learning goal’.”

”It makes sense that some computing laws would apply to the world of the web. Since I have an awful time remembering them, I figured I’d write down the ones that have been helpful to me in my career in the web industry.”