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Tag: interaction design
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Perspectives on iPad Usability: No Need for Scaled-up iPhone
Usability expert, Jakob Nielsen has finally reviewed the iPad and offered his perspective of the magical tablet’s usability. Although he immediately acknowledges that “from an interaction
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Search Patterns - New from O'Reilly - Design for Discovery
As we all drown in today's unparalleled access to mostly disorganized information, the holy grail for many has become to perfect search. O'Reilly Media (news, site) has released a new book to help tho
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Revisiting the 3 Questions for Great Experience Design
2010 is proving to be about user experience. Even in the past few weeks, we have covered the trends and needs associated with improving usability online, from web design to promoting transparency.With
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Avoiding Demographics When Recruiting Participants: An Interview with Dana Chisnell
User research works best when you match your participants to the people who will use your designs. It makes sense that teams would try to use the demographics, often compiled by the organization's mar
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Producing Great Search Results: Harder than It Looks (Part 2)
Creating an effective search results page takes hard work. In the first installment of this article, I introduced how designers need to understand the users' tasks and ensure every result delivers gre
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Producing Great Search Results: Harder than It Looks (Part 1)
When creating a search results page, it's unfortunately too easy to produce an ineffective design. We know this because, in the course of our research, we've studied hundreds of search results pages.
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Components, Patterns and Frameworks! Oh My!
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 wil
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The Magic Behind Amazon's 2.7 Billion Dollar Question
Since its release in 2007, the last volume of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, has garnered 3,286 reviews from Amazon.com customers. While response has been overwhelmingl
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Review: Balsamiq Mockups for Wireframes
I have been working with Visio for many years now for making mock-ups and wireframes, but a few weeks ago I bought Balsamiq Mockups. It’s a tool that lets you make simple mock-ups that look simp
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Web Design: Top 7 Wireframing Tools (Updated)
It's been more than six months since we published our popular list of the Top 5 Wireframing Tools. Since then various readers have been eager to share with us their experience with the tools they have
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Web Design: The $300 Million Button
While Luke Wroblewski was writing his well-received book, Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks, he asked if I could think of an example where a change in a form's design made a noticeable difference
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