: It was nothing short of Nerd Fun, watching New Twitter’s rollout. There was impatience, rollout envy, glowering, whining, begging and ultimately a lot of gushing! Incremental rollouts are highly planned, delicate, and impressively important user experiences. From tip-to-tail, a new product rollout to an existing app can be fraught with challenges ranging from downtime [...]

: When it comes to user experience, designers and developers must do much more than present their users with a “pretty face” web page. : http://mashable.com/2010/11/28/best-ux-ui/

: One of the problems of working in the field of User Experience is that you start to see everything through that lens. For example, Black Friday shopping. Black Friday is the biggest shopping day of the season, as retailers and Wikipedia tell us. But that’s not accidental. : http://fitzgeraldsteele.wordpress.com/2010/11/26/ux-psychology-black-friday-and-you/

: I have said on numerous occasions that there is no simple checklist that, when followed, will give you an accessible site without fail. There are simply too many variables. But, what do you do when you want to create accessible pages and you have dozens or even hundreds of developers who (like most of [...]

: Developed by the clever folks at MIT Media Lab Fluid Interfaces Group, DepthJS is a web browser extension that allows any any web page to interact with Microsoft Kinect via Javascript. Released last night this video shows the potential that DepthJS has for developers and is open source, and available to download for free. [...]

: This post talks about the idea of extending the experience design of our products outside of what we might consider the normal deliverables (prototypes, research summaries, visual designs, etc.). : http://www.thisisaaronslife.com/extending-the-experience/

: I was impressed by Neil Hunt ‘s answer to this question: For each recipe within the same A/B split test, do we need to have the same sample size for all the recipes?. Now I am wondering a little more about the testing that Netflix does. : http://www.quora.com/Neil-Hunt-What-types-of-things-does-Netflix-A-B-test-aside-from-member-sign-up

: I recently spoke with a coworker who was skeptical that the search suggestion feature we’d implemented in our company intranet could be effective. “I could be searching for anything—it couldn’t possibly know what I’m going to type in.” Smiling smugly, I asked him to think of something he might want to find on the [...]

: Steve Portigal, whom I’ve met and whom I don’t think is insane, recently said in a presentation that “personas are user-centered bullshit”. But he didn’t stop there. He then went on to write an article in this months ACM Interactions magazine extolling the evils of personas which is provoking quite a reaction among designers. [...]

: There seems to be this idea going around that usability testing is bad, or that the cool kids don’t do it. That it’s old skool. That designers don’t need to do it. What if I told you that usability testing is the hottest thing in experience design research? Every time a person has a [...]