: We tend to think of the pause as awkward. In speech, pauses connote uncomfortable silence, an issue at hand, and as communicators, we smooth over silence with fillers. We’re trained to deliver smooth speech, censoring “um” and “ah” out. As designers, as much as we value whitespace, we tend to fill it. This distaste [...]

: We recently posted about how 37signals increased their sign-ups by 200% with A/B Testing. A lot of you are using WordPress, which makes A/B testing pretty tricky, so we’ve recorded a screencast tutorial to show you how to do it. : http://thinkvitamin.com/design/how-to-do-ab-testing-in-wordpress/

: In a few words UXPin is a first complete system to document your website ideas on paper. Technology that we have created consists of user interface elements with post-it-like glue strips and paper browser notepad. Have look on it: www.uxpin.com Follow us on twitter: www.twitter.com/uxpin Like us on Facebook: www.facebook.com/uxpin : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZIVzkQZ_PQ

: Interesting video describing an alternative way for a user to pass data between websites. : http://draggables.com/

: The co-founder of Kicker Studio (and author of Designing for Interaction and Designing Gestural Interfaces) explains to us that “User Experience” isn’t a discipline, so much as a big tent. We talk about his work on the Mag+ project and he reveals some tricks-of-the-trade about how to get “the long wow” with a product. [...]

: Today IDEO released a five-minute video exploring the future of digital books. Their illustrated concepts highlight some interesting opportunity areas in the publishing industry through three distinct reading experiences: : http://www.core77.com/blog/technology/ideos_future_of_the_book_17449.asp

: In this video I look at changing the experiences users/customers have in mass consumer environments (i.e. fast food restaurants) and the decisions faced in implementing those changes. : http://www.thisisaaronslife.com/changing-user-experiences-in-mass-consumer-environments/

: Chris Elam, the artistic director of Misnomer Dance Ensemble, gives a presentation entitled “Shaping Your Connection to Art and Artists” at the Regional TED conference. : http://misnomer.org/tedxeast

: Complete presentation by Avinash Kaushik at Google Conversion University. : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpDxGrSqA-E

: 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 [...]