Whatever we can do to increase the amount of ground will go a long way toward converting our users from passive consumers into brand evangelists.
The Best Of The Internets
Client Feedback On the Creation of the Earth.
Nine Lies We Tell Ourselves About Mobile
Be dismissive of the non-smartphone only if you want to leave 4 billion customers on the table.
Why Do App Developers Still Live with Their Moms?
Interesting tech job truth:
The combined global workforces of Groupon, Facebook, LinkedIn, Zynga, Yelp, Pandora, and Zillow is smaller than the number that Circuit City fired in January 2009 when it was liquidated.
Device-Agnostic
Yet another great argument for progressive enhancement.
Continuum
Thank you Jeremy:
The web is not a platform. It’s a continuum.
The experiences we design must follow suit.
Everything I Really Need to Know about User Experience I Learned in Sunday School
Every corner you cut is an opportunity to confuse, irritate, and lose users … lessen[ing] your product’s effectiveness.
Web Design: Progressive Enhancement & The Power of Constraint
[L]et’s stop thinking of the constraints of progressive enhancement as a creativity killer. We too can use the constraints to come up with genuinely creative ways to get round problems and become better designers.
Amen.
Interface Inventory
An interface inventory is similar to a content inventory, only instead of sifting through and categorizing content, you’re taking stock and categorizing the components making up your website, app, intranet, hoobadyboop, or whatever (it doesn’t matter).
Great Products Focus On A Motif
From first use to navigation to lower-level screens, the motif should be infused throughout the customer’s experience. By making it a part of the on-boarding experience in particular, you’ll help to welcome new users in a natural, unforced way, rather than having to rely on instructional coaching…
Existential Depression in Gifted Children
Well written and helpful, this article explains the root causes of existential depression (which is not just a childhood issue) and how to help people cope with it.