: Somewhere, right now, there’s a team creating a new design with some amazing, never-before-seen functionality. And to take advantage of that awesome, groundbreaking functionality work, their users will need to login. Login functionality isn’t new. It’s not awesome. It’s not very challenging to develop. Teams are designing this functionality as if it’s never been [...]

: The beauty in CSS is that a tiny directive can make a huge difference in how the page displays. Here are seven quick CSS snippets that will give your website more “pop” and make your user’s experience more functional and enjoyable. : http://davidwalsh.name/css-enhancements-user-experience

: A collection of good, bad, and noteworthy interface designs found by Jason Robb. Examples and explanations of interaction design and how it relates to experience design. :http://uiscraps.tumblr.com/

: Your website is just a series of inter-linked pages, but some of those pages are very different from others. In this post, I’m going to talk about pathway (or gateway) pages. I want to help you to identify pathway pages and explain some considerations you should make by discussing real examples. : http://www.goodusability.co.uk/2009/04/good-pathway-pages/

: You probably think that innovation is something people do in bright conference rooms with flip charts, colored pens, and sticky notes. If your answer is Yes, you are partially right, that’s how a lot of innovation is done. However, sometimes the best innovation happens, not when you are in a conference room, but when [...]

: “If you create digital products, you have a responsibility to make them easy to use.” – Whitney Hess She’s absolutley right, we do. The UX community embraces this idea. It champions a very worthy cause. Making products work better for people. And it’s a great community for sharing it’s expertise. Loads of great blogs, [...]

: There is a lot of information out there about various interface design techniques and patterns you can use when crafting your user interfaces and websites, solutions to common problems and general usability recommendations. Following guidelines from experts will likely lead you towards creating a good user interface — but what exactly is a good [...]

: The usability profession is experiencing the current economic downturn just like everyone else. This article offers ten tips for usability professionals trying to weather this economic storm. : http://www.upassoc.org/upa_publications/jus/2009february/tullis1.html

: We’ve all seen arguments in the design community that dismiss the role of beauty in visual interfaces, insisting that good designers base their choices strictly on matters of branding or basic design principles. Lost in these discussions is an understanding of the powerful role aesthetics play in shaping how we come to know, feel, [...]

: User experience design can sometimes be a slippery term. With all the other often used terms that float around in its realm in the technology and web space: interaction design, information architecture, human computer interaction, human factors engineering, usability, and user interface design. People often end up asking “what is the difference between all [...]