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Designing Value Beyond the Inflection Point

“Change is happening faster than ever before. With each and every day more people have the power to change the world. You don’t need have to have a MBA degree to see that a lot of industries are currently approaching or at their inflection point. In fact it’s fair to say that [...]

Laban Movement Analysis for User Experience Design

Laban Movement Analysis provides a language for notating and documenting physical movement—mostly for dance choreography, but in acting as well. Its purpose is to document specific movements in dance. There are three aspects of Laban Movement Analysis that my experience and research tell me have some interesting implications for UX design:

Effort Actions—which categorize [...]

The UX Canon

The UX Canon according to Will Evans (with help from Dave Malouf)

Live at Interaction10

Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3
(from Johnny Holland)

Search Patterns

Search Patterns: Design for Discovery
View more presentations from Peter Morville.

Better User Experience With Storytelling – Part One

“Stories have defined our world. They have been with us since the dawn of communication, from cave walls to the tall tales recounted around fires. They have continued to evolve with their purpose remaining the same; To entertain, to share common experiences, to teach, and to pass on traditions.
Today we communicate a bit differently. Our [...]

Bringing User Centered Design to the Agile Environment

“Envisioned by a group of developers, Agile is an iterative development approach that takes small steps toward defining a product or service. At the end of each step, we have something built that we could release to the market if we choose to and therefore it can assure some speed to market where waterfall methods [...]

RUX Agile

RUX Agile Jan 10
View more documents from Regular Joe Consulting.

UX Deliverables in Practice

UX Deliverables in Practice
View more presentations from Peter Boersma.

Peachpit Press

Books from Peachpit Press that we’ve received today:
1. Project Guide to UX Design by Russ Unger, Carolyn Chandler
2. Rocket Surgery Made Easy by Steve Krug
3. Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web by Christina Wodtke, Austin Govella
4. Designing for the Social Web by Joshua Porter
5. Content Strategy by Kristina Halvorson
Thank you, Peachpit Press and Russ Unger!
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