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Less is not always More
There seems to be a trend of late to take the minimialisation of interactive design to the extreme. Now I’m all or minimialisation and making user interfaces simipler. You know making an interface...
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Bad Interfaces – Getting Dates Wrong
When you use an interface it’s the little things that help make it either a pain or just outstanding. Sadly, too often we have to put up with the bad interfaces. In light of this I will from time to...
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Heretical Idea – Stop Redesigning
If you work with a client long term or are part of their internal team chances are you will see a number of redesigns of a site. Over the years I have come to question why we constantly redesign...
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Why Use PDF over HTML
As a web professional and an avocate for inclusive design (web accessibility) I have often wondered why organisations are so obsessed with using PDF documents on web sites as opposed to HTML based...
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The Mobile Web is Not Going Away
I was killing time, waiting, doing the Dad’s Taxi thing. While I waited, I was catching up on Twitter, on my phone, plus reading the various articles from my stream. You know what is becoming a real...
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The Core UX Reading List
I get asked this a lot. “What are the best UX books to read?” In true UX tradition my answer is depends. It depends on your experience as a UX practitioner, your experience with scientific research...
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Bad Interfaces – Technology Leading the Way
I don’t mind completing surveys, I even do those phone surveys. Having working with several different marketing teams and conducted countless UX information gathering surveys over the years. I can...
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Things are not Dead Here
You may have noticed that the output from this blog has slowed over the last ten or so months from at least a post a week to if you’re lucky one post a month. Sorry about that. I can’t really put my...
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The Rise of the UX Developer
As with any young industry we tend to endlessly debate the labels we should be placing on the User Experience based roles that we are conducting. Along with this debate on the labels, we seem to be...
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Taking Stock of Volunteer Contributions
The other day I added up the time I spend on volunteer work, you know, contributing back to the community and the like. I used to see this as just an hour here, and hour there, no big deal. I just...
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Australia forgets about Accessibility?
The following is an approximate transcript of the talk – “Outta time, scope, and we fixed that already – Is there a Disconnect” I gave at the 2011 OzeWAI conference in late November 2011. As usual the...
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Debunking the Myth on Agile T Shaped UX Designers
I have been interested in agile process for a while, especial it’s use with UX techniques. The other day I ran into a myth that there aren’t many User Experience Design people with skills that can...
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Bad Interfaces – eMusic Getting it Wrong
Times have just got to change. I’m a little sick of living in a world that is regionalise into sales and licencing zones for no real reason besides to restrict sales due to some arcane money grubbing...
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Lean: A Design Overview
I have been interested in Lean for a while, if nothing else than to explore if any of the techniques could be stolen for use with UX and service design. I’m only starting out on this journey about...
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World Class Webstock 2012
Webstock 2012 is my second Webstock, my first being for Webstock 2011, but you know what the people at Webstock are so friendly that it feels like I have been going forever. What I like about this...
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Conference Speaking – Yes or No?
Well it’s getting around to that time of year when conference submission are due. Now, I go through this process a few times a year, it doesn’t change. What to submit? When you take into consideration...
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Lean: A3 Reporting and Hoshin Kanri
A part of Lean is Hoshin Kanri (HK). It is a form of policy development or strategic planning. Like any good strategic planning process it deals with the mapping out of how the business can get to the...
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7 Ways to Get Rid of Your UX Person
Fostering even a moderate level of UX design in any team or project can at times be an impossible task. Often there are things that we do that can stifle and sometimes even oppose UX techniques we are...
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Heretical Idea – Design with Paper
Of late I have noticed a very disturbing trend. Some designers no longer draw or sketch on paper. Have we been seduced by the shiny digital world, sure low-res paper prototyping is still popular, but...
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A Review – Gamification by Design
Rating: 3 Gamification seems to have been the big thing for a while. Maybe we have heard too much of it. Some would say we have been over sold on gamification, making it the wonder child that will...
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