81. Building Better Web Applications - Wireframe and User Interface Design
September 21, 2011
The explosion in smartphones and tablets has, naturally, led to a segmentation of web browsing across devices and form factors. At the turn of the millennium browsing was mostly done on desktop computers or laptops. According to Morgan Stanley analysts mobile web browsing will eclipse desktop we...
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82. Persuasive Design in User Interface Design
September 19, 2011
The user experience/ user interface design field is one that has seen a lot of dramatic changes in the last thirty years ever since GUIs became the de facto modus operandi of computing. New terms hav...
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83. Psychological Manipulation in User Interface Design
September 10, 2011
Inspired by a UX Booth article Walk into a modern retail store and chances are that you will be bombarded by cleverly implemented psychological manipulation to induce spending. You might not realize it but that supermarket features a layout and design that is intended to make you add mo...
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84. Steve Jobs' Legacy is Assured in Both Product & User Interface Design
September 09, 2011
A day that all tech analysts knew was coming sooner rather than later still managed to catch the blogosphere off guard. That day of course is the resignation of Apple impresario Steve Jobs. His 1997 return to Apple as CEO after being unceremoniously expelled in the mid-80s has been nothing short...
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85. The Frontiers of Natural User Interface Design
August 26, 2011
According to Wikipedia, a Natural User Interface is when a UI is effectively invisible, or rather becomes invisible with successive learned interactions. These interactions are intended to feel natural as users operate the user interface design.
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86. Workflow Design - Using User Interface Design Conventions
August 18, 2011
This article is based on the usability newsletter by Jakob Nielsen When creating user interface designs for websites and applications it is important to think of the use cases necessary for users to accomplish tasks. Good user interface design is not just a matter of creating a page wit...
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87. Niehaus Wireframes and the Art of User Interface Design
August 10, 2011
This article is based on Matthias Henrici's blog post on the subject of Niehaus Wireframes Wireframes, in essence, haven't changed much aesthetically since the days of paper prototyping in the mid 80s. Naturally the
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88. Skeuomorphic User Interface Design: What is skeuomorphic user interface design?
August 04, 2011
What is skeuomorphic user interface design? By definition a skeuomorph is a derivative object that is designed in such a way as to retain the structure of the original object. As such skeuomorphs tend to feature purely decorative elements that are made to resemble the des...
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89. Spiral Design - What is spiral design?
July 27, 2011
What is spiral design? The spiral design method is a software development process that combines both elements of the prototyping method and the waterfall method in order to integrate the advantages associated with both methods. It is a process characterized by iteration....
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90. Extreme Programming - What is extreme programming?
July 20, 2011
What is extreme programming? Extreme programming is a subtype of the agile development software process and is designed to improve the quality of the software based on customer responses that initiate rapid creation and results: the user experience feedback is used to pro...
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