: You’ve been at your local coffee shop working feverishly on the design for your next project. You like the shape your design is taking, but you really need to gather feedback. Here’s how to have an impromptu usability session. : http://madeforpeople.net/user-experience-blog/2010/12/7/how-to-use-your-ipad-to-conduct-a-spontaneous-usability-stud.html

: This video discusses the idea of how we as designers can get caught up in working towards building a perception of ourselves that we want others to have. We can often get caught up in gauging our successes of others in our community, especially those who write books, speak, and are regarded highly in [...]

: Students are multitaskers who move through websites rapidly, often missing the item they come to find. They’re enraptured by social media but reserve it for private conversations and thus visit company sites from search engines. : http://www.useit.com/alertbox/students.html

: Words are the soul of user experience. More than any other design element, words communicate the bulk of the messages we communicate to others. Whether they are spoken or written, there’s a fine line between lazily sending generic, expected messages and taking a few minutes to say something truly special. : http://52weeksofux.com/post/2304229527/words-are-the-soul-of-ux

Documentation helps designers tell a story and facilitate change. Pamela Rodriguez investigates how holistic, project-wide documentation helps teams avoid repeating mistakes, organize their ideas, and improve their process.

: I was going through my bookmarks looking for a problemsolver I needed for my latest webdesign project and I found myself doing exactly the same thing of which I warned you all before, badly tagging in delicious. : http://www.paulolyslager.com/inspirational-blogs-books-articles-user-interface-patterns

: A key goal of user experience design is to keep things simple. Unfortunately websites and applications create problems for users by employing interfaces that are too complex. : http://completeusability.com/simple-user-interfaces-the-snowplow-principle/

: A great overview of how to build a persona by LUXi. : http://luxr.posterous.com/persona-cheat-sheet-0

: Yesterday I had the pleasure of attending my first unconference—Book Camp NY. Even though I’ve been a publisher for a few years now, this was the first publishing event I’d ever attended. : http://louisrosenfeld.com/home/bloug_archive/2010/12/ux_and_publishing.html

: What are you going to do this weekend?” “I’m going to hang out in the Financial District with a bunch of folks from various disciplines and locations to discuss the intersection of Agile and User Experience.” “All weekend? Um, that sounds like fun.” As it turns out, it was a lot more than fun. [...]