: Agile projects aren’t yet fully user-driven, but new research shows that developers are actually more bullish on key user experience issues than UX people themselves. : http://www.useit.com/alertbox/agile-user-experience.html

: Shows the difference between remote and lab testing, weighing the benefits and disadvantages of each. : http://boltpeters.com/articles/versus.html

: The question is: How do we get users from the unfamiliar zone into the interested zone and subsequently becoming a first time use? : http://www.onextrapixel.com/2009/11/16/strategies-on-how-to-motivate-users-to-sign-up-through-design/

: Leah began with telling the story of her transition to a new job at Adaptive Path. Up until then, she had been a UX team of one at a financial firm. : http://www.uie.com/brainsparks/2009/11/11/ui14-session-sampler-leah-buleys-a-ux-team-of-one/

: A big part of information architecture is organization – creating the structure of a site. For most sites – particularly large ones – this means creating a hierarchical “tree” of topics. : http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/tree-testing

: This may seem like its a bit off topic for us as user experience professionals, but if you look closer, its actually very much related to what we do. This is a video from the PBS series called e². : http://www.nickfinck.com/blog/entry/human_scale/

: In this how-to companion to Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, Steve Krug spells out an approach to usability testing that anyone can easily apply to their own web site, application, or other product. (As he said in Don’t Make Me Think, “It’s not rocket surgery”.) : http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0321657292?linkCode=shr&camp=213733&creative=393189&tag=ux-booth-20

: These predictions are based on my understanding of the state of the usability field based on blog posts, articles, tweets and all the other news and information I’ve picked up throughout the year. : http://www.usefulusability.com/7-controversial-usability-prediction/

: If trending topics surrounding design blogs are any reflection of trends in design, then usability is what coffee is to freelancers. Usability is a study of human-computer interaction that helps designers analyze our users’ patterns as they use our creations. While we cannot fully predict our users’ interactions, we are able to brace for [...]

: ‘Cut and paste’ widget that provides 52 languages of translation – a nice Javascript interface for the Google Language API. : http://translateTH.IS/