In this interview, Ryan Singer, Product Manager at 37signals, explains how to tackle design problems and how to design for your users.
http://www.dormroomtycoon.com/ryan-singer-37signals-interview-the-art-of-designing-for-people/
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Ryan Singer: 37signals Interview – The Art of Designing for People
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Emotional Design for the World of Objects
Welcome to the world of atoms. Remember when the mantra was that bits were more important than atoms? That we could dispense with physical things because information was all that mattered? Well, that was nonsense then and it is nonsense now.
The human body is part of the physical world. It savors touch and feeling, movement and action. How else to explain the popularity of physical devices, of games that require gestures, and full-body movement?
Want to develop for this new world? There are new rules for interacting with the world, new rules for the developers of systems. But the new rules still follow the old principles. Let’s not throw away the old lessons of interaction. In fact, these become even more important than ever before. And yes, there are some new things to learn as well, new technologies to master, new words to learn.
Today the need is for complex, rich, emotionally satisfying things. It is no longer just about function and service. Those are still important, but they are taken for granted. Today we must add convenience and comfort, fun and excitement, pleasure. We needed to develop applications that both delivered real value but also was high in emotional value, experience, and engagement.
http://2011.dconstruct.org/conference/don-norman
Dr. Don Norman is the author or co-author of fourteen books, with translations into sixteen languages, including: The Design of Everyday Things, Things That Make Us Smart, and The Invisible Computer. Business Week has called this the bible of the ‘post PC’ thinking. His latest book, Emotional Design: Why we love (or hate) everyday things marks the transition from usability to aesthetics, but with the emphasis on a well-rounded, cohesive product that looks good, works well, and gives pride to the owner. The well-rounded product, says Don, will enhance the heart as well as the mind, being a joy to behold, to use, and to own.
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Materialising and Dematerialising A Web of Data. (Or What We’ve Learned From Printing The Internet Out) - Russell Davies - dConstruct 2009
dConstruct is an affordable, one-day conference aimed at those building the latest generation of websites. The event discusses how to design websites that not only work, but are an enjoyable experience for the user.
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Beyond Mobile: Making Sense of a Post-PC World
Native applications are a remnant of the Jurassic period of computer history. We will look back on these past 10 years as the time we finally grew out of our desktop mindset and started down the path of writing apps for an infinite number of platforms. As the cost of computation and connectivity plummets, manufacturers are going to put ‘interactivity’ into every device. Some of this will be trivial: my power adaptor knows it’s charging history. Some of it will be control related: my television will be grand central for my smart home. But at it’s heart, we’ll be swimming in world where every device will have ‘an app’. What will it take for us to get here, what technologies will it take to make this happen?
This talk will discuss how the principles of the open web must apply not only to prototocols but to hardware as well. How can we build a ‘DNS for hardware’ so the menagerie of devices has a chance for working together?
http://2012.dconstruct.org/conference/jenson/
Scott Jenson used to work at Apple, developing the Human Interface guidelines and working on the Newton, no less. He also worked at Symbian and Google so he knows all about mobile devices of all kinds.
Scott is currently Creative Director at Frog Design where he has been writing about the coming zombie apocalypse.
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The Art and Science of Seductive Interactions – Stephen Anderson
To be good information architects, we need to crack open some psych 101 textbooks, learn what motivates people, and then bake these ideas into our designs. We’ve spent the last decade perfecting how to create applications that serve our users needs. Now it’s time learn a bit about the art and science of seductive interactions.
Stephen P. Anderson has been gathering and analyzing specific examples of sites who’ve designed serendipity, arousal, rewards and other seductive elements into their applications.
By understanding basic psychological principles we can raise the bar on our projects!
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The Art of the User Experience: making beautiful, delightful, fun things – Aral Balkan
We are the makers of the new everyday things. We design and develop the virtual pens, telephones, newspapers, calendars, and door-handles that people interact with every single day. We are the virtual architects and the products that we design and develop have the power to determine whether people have a good day or a bad day.
In this session, Aral Balkan will outline the important role that user experience design plays in the making of virtual products and inspire you to see that it is your job – regardless of whether you make web sites, mobile apps, intranet systems, or ticket machines – to make this new world that we are crafting together not only usable and accessible but beautiful, fun, inspiring, pleasurable, delightful, and – dare I say – magical.
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London IA Podcast with Cennydd Bowles
In the latest London IA Podcast we host a wide-ranging conversation with Cennydd Bowles on moving from user experience design to digital product designer, what it takes to develop visual design skills, freelancing, A List Apart, writing a book, conference speaking and of course that legendary animal of European folklore.
Hosted by Matthew Solle and Andrew Travers. Produced by Will Myddelton and Matthew Solle.
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#012 Sebastian Deutsch von 9elements.com bei techdings.com « TECHDINGS.COM + startups + tech + unternehmertum
Sebastian Deutsch von 9elements berichtet von den Erfahrungen und Prozessen Design und Technik zusammenzuführen, sodass exzellente und erfolgreiche Software-Lösungen wie watchlater und img.ly entstehen.
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5BY5 | The Big Web Show #8: User Experience Design
5BY5 - The Big Web Show #8: User Experience Design
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UX Australia 2011 - Mobile user experience: Methods and tools
This practical presentation is aimed at helping you get your mobile services into customers’ hands early in the design process, and the different ways of exploring mobile user experiences to better inform your design.
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