: Despite menacing ashclouds, London traffic and the current state of the European economy UX London managed to once again fill a room full of practitioners : http://johnnyholland.org/2010/05/19/ux-london-report-day-1/

: Lately, everyone on the web is talking about content. Content strategy has made its way into our collective consciousness and web writing is coming into its own. : http://visitmix.com/Articles/A-Common-Sense-Content-Strategy

: Collaborative design methods play a key role in aligning team members towards a shared and strategic project vision. In this article we describe how user stories stimulate and facilitate discussion and decision making with clients in the development of a User Experience Strategy. In our context (the development of online projects) the User Experience [...]

: User stories are a lightweight mechanism for gathering and verifying user requirements on Agile projects. Unfortunately, it is easy to lose the context of stories. Find out how techniques from user-centered design (UCD) can help avoid this problem. : http://www.devx.com/architect/Article/42270/1954

: A huge list of more than 100 web GUI elements sets, thousands of free graphics for your designs including free buttons, tabs, menus, icons and more. : http://iconlibrary.iconshock.com/icons/100-free-web-elements-sets/

: The founder & president of Adaptive Path explains why they’re shifting away from “user experience” and towards “experience design.” He celebrates 360 design strategies through successful “customer journeys” by Apple and Southwest Airlines and advocates for marketing and advertisement becoming the first touchpoint of such. He also outlines the history of personal computing in [...]

: What I’m learning may shock some of you, and it may confirm ideas for others. It’s not far from what I’ve blogged about in the past: Supplemental navigation is, in most cases, visual junk. : http://briancray.com/2010/02/03/measuring-simplicity-in-web-design/

: Accessibility has made its way into the mainstream of web development. Development environments offer accessibility analysis built in and web utilities are available to test the accessibility of published pages, but there’s no substitute for human testing. : http://hostwisely.com/blog/is-your-website-usable-by-everyone-accessibility-analysis-lets-you-know/

: A comparison of for-hire internet usability test-takers to lab-based participants : http://www.measuringusability.com/paid-testers.php

: After years of wondering why browsers defaulted to 16pt text sizes I’m starting to be convinced that long text really is significantly more readable on screen at precisely that size. So I started with 16px for the post text and worked out from there. The problem is that whenever I’ve tried that in a [...]