: Over the past several months, I’ve been funneling my keen eye for awful interface design into a blog, User Interfucked. Interestingly to readers of UX Movement, it should come as no surprise, a vast wealth of terrible interfaces are not just door handles and kitchen cabinets — they’re right here on the web. For [...]

: This article discusses how the change in app focus can hinder usability. Tapulous has moved upwards a freemium app strategy which results in the in-app store taking up 50% of the onscreen real estate. : http://thomasdavi.es/2011/01/taptaprevenge/

: I remember the first time I heard the phrase “information architecture.” It was in the technical communication program at RPI, in a conversation with the department chair about my enthusiasm for combining my love of clear writing, making outlines, and labeling my file folders with what I was then just discovering: a whole new [...]

: It may be hyperbole, but copy as we know it is nearly useless. Why is that? First we must define what copy is: copy is marketing text designed to persuade users to take action. Today, copy is less successful at persuading users and moving them forward than it has been in the past. Marketing [...]

: In the web design community, Doug Bowman has distinguished himself both as an individual and as a part of big-name creative teams. Currently, he is Twitter’s creative director, a job he took after leaving Google last year. : http://mashable.com/2010/11/22/doug-bowman-design-tips/

: Feature-creep or featuritis is a tendency to constantly add features which inevitably leads to complex products that are confusing and hard to use. To make matters worse, by adding features we move the product away from solving primary issues – the reason for making the product in the first place. Some products are even [...]

: Since setting up my little pet project @UXBooks I’ve been meaning to write a related blog post but haven’t managed to put aside the time until now. At a similar time to me setting it up UXBookClubs started to pop up around the World. : http://shortboredsurfer.com/2009/05/the-ultimate-user-experience-book-league-table/

: As a web designer I’ve always felt that I’d somehow cheated the system, having been absent on the day God handed out the ability to draw. I didn’t study fine art, I don’t have a natural talent to effortlessly knock out a realistic bowl of fruit beside a water jug, and yet somehow I’ve [...]

: A roundup of resources by Measuringusabilility.com including books, chapterspapers, and questionnaires. : http://www.measuringusability.com/blog/25-resources.php

: An interesting idea but this book is neither a good exploration of the concept of interaction frameworks or a library of frameworks. : http://www.purecaffeine.com/2010/12/book-review-web-anatomy-hoekman-spool/