Archive for the ‘user experience’ Category

I’m worried about persuasion design. Although it’s a powerful and topical approach, I also believe it has the potential to severely damage our industry.

Six principles to guide beautiful web design.

Beauty comes in three forms: universal, sociocultural and subjective. To aim for it, we can employ three modes of design: visceral, behavioural and reflective.

Announcing Undercover User Experience, a book about doing great UX work with tiny budgets, no time, and even without official clearance.

Why I’m not convinced by the ELSE Mobile’s claims of great user-centred design.

UX London 2010, internships and some mildly terrifying news.

A look at some of the common causes of flawed A/B testing, including significance, percentage misquotation and the A/B death spiral.

Questions and answers about the User Experience field, as inspired by Masters students.