"When technology delivers basic needs, user experience dominates."
Don NormanWhat is User Experience?
User Experience is the name given to the overall set of interactions that a person experiences with a particular product or service.
Usability is a primary component of user experience and when combined with a user centered design process, produces a product that is easier to use and aesthetically desirable.
Usability is a primary component of user experience and when combined with a user centered design process, produces a product that is easier to use and aesthetically desirable.
Sites and Articles
- UX Magazine
- UX Magazine was created to deliver a central place to discuss the critical disciplines that all enhance user experience. Extraordinary user experiences should be the goal of every interaction you deliver to your users at any level. All too often, businesses (large and small) get it horribly wrong. It's painful to watch and even worse when it happens to you.
- User Experience Resource Collection
- Collection of links for all things related to User Experience by Dey (pronounced 'Dee') Alexander.
- Usability Professionals' Association
- The Usability Professionals' Association is an organization for usability practioners, who promote and advance the development of usable products.
- User Interface Engineering
- Jared Spool's web design and usability company.
- The Elements of User Experience (PDF file)
- The diagram that seeks to "define the key considerations that go into the development of user experience on the Web today". From Jesse James Garrett, who first used the term AJAX to describe interaction with web applications.
- Ten Ways to Kill Design
- Kim Goodwin explains - When we say the inmates are running the asylum, it means the programmers are making business decisions that should be made by executives. In most cases it's not intentional, and the majority of people are unaware of the extent to which it happens. However, every time a programmer says "That's not technically feasible," he's just made a business decision that's invisible to most people, since "not technically feasible" really means "not in the tiny amount of time or with the constraints I know you're going to give me."
- Edward Tufte
- The work of Edward Tufte who writes, designs, and self-publishes superb books on information design. Be sure to read the excellent Ask E.T. forum of selected discussion topics for various aspects of visual data communication.
- Alertbox
- Jakob Nielson's bi-weekly newsletter about current issues in web usability.
- 37 Signals
- Designers of simple to use, highly effective web based applications.
- Apple User Experience
- Apple User Experience
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