@solle
- is wondering how many Fisher Space Pens are floating in space
- Audiomap: Last.fm visualisation tool http://bit.ly/lBMW
- The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent (JH Holmes)
- @joelanman yes. take a very very deep breathe
- Spreadtweet: for those who want to use Twitter but look like they are sweating in Excel: http://bit.ly/DiYrj
@uxwork
- RT @Wandster: any talented UX professionals looking for a fantastic new challenge, please get in touch #emc
- RT @johannakoll Seedcamp is looking for an intern, cool job if you're into startups. Part-time, paid, London. http://bit.ly/abK4zz
- RT @jasonsantamaria: Typedia is looking for a volunteer Managing Editor/Contributor. This is a writing gig, send samples: http://j.mp/3njCr
- RT @iA: I need guns... Lots of guns... Senior web designer job at iA. No jacket required, but low chance without Japanese working visa.
- Looking for experienced London based IA who can start next week. /via @AndrewsAldridge
@london_ia
- 4 tickets left for 30th March http://bit.ly/9j9dxX
- Stop Saying 'Innovation' - Scott @Berkun making sense for The Economist. Superb points as usual. http://bit.ly/cgBwHJ /via @darrengeraghty
- 15 tickets left for London IA on Innovation with @andybudd @clagnut @clurr @glennjones http://bit.ly/9j9dxX
- RT @AndrewsAldridge: @london_ia Looking for experienced London based IA who can start next week.
- @fjordaan you need to register on eventwax. We have a max capacity
Author Archives: admin
Food for thought on handling different behaviours
I love these examples of handling different behaviours in children. As designers preoccupied with a user’s experience of the world around them and the contents of it, I think that we can learn a great deal from these excerpts from the British Journal of Play Therapy Volume 5, Winter 2009.
At present, the pamphlet is not [...]
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As little design as possible but as much help as you can get
“Design is the successive application of constraints until only a unique product is left” (Don Norman)
We are all too familiar with the need to minimise complexity, encourage good design and promote accessibility and usability as the core approaches for a successful user experience.
When a UX designer/experience architect/information architect begins a new project we except that [...]
Best of (recent) iapresentation
Conference feedback (big and small, it effects us all)
My feedback and stuff to learn regarding recent conferences I have attended.
Sketchbooks
My preferred list of sketchbooks readily available.
Pick of the UXLondon Twitter postings
What a grid day
Watching digital readers
‘One of the things our grandchildren will find quaintest about us is that we distinguish the digital from the real‘ [...]
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Suggested reading from The Design Of Everyday Things
Thought it would be useful to put Don Norman’s list of suggested reading from his book The Design Of Everyday Things in a post with links to each book on Amazon (sadly not all the books are readily available but at least one has reference to them and a way of keeping an eye on [...]
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CV format – is it broken? Does it need fixing (UPDATE)
An update to previous article about CVs is that I have updated the CV Grid Template.
Download a Omnigraffle Template here now or from Graffletopia
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To portfolio or not to portfolio, that is the question
You apply for a UX job (pretty much same rules apply for UX contract work) and they ask you for some examples of work.
What do you do?
What do you want to do?
Maybe some of your work is NDA’d , maybe some of your work is not live yet but the main reason an employer (or [...]
Maslow Quote
“Our inner nature is not strong, like instincts in animals. Rather, it is subtle, delicate, and in many ways weak. It is easily ‘drowned out by learning, by cultural expectations, by fear, by disapproval”
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Advertising Faces/Eyes – a photo set on Flickr
(updated) New idea. Series of close ups of faces that appear on any form of advertising. Efforts will be made to geotag each one (though obviously most types of advertising change) in the effort to build a record across (mainly) Greater London.
All photos will be delivered to this set on Flickr. (You can follow it [...]
London IA on Innovation