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News articles and blog posts about human factors, UX, UI, UE and accessibility.

Sneaking responsive in under the radar using an mdot site.

May 22, 2013 - Let’s face it, there’s the right way to do design, then there’s the pragmatic way to get things done within your organisation. The two are often not the quite same thing. Let’s say you want to create an elegantly minimal … Continue reading


10 Metrics for Testing Website Navigation

May 22, 2013 - Website navigation is at the heart of good findability.  To measure findability, we perform a


Incorporating Content Strategy into Your Information Archite [...]

May 22, 2013 - In this week’s UIEtips, Margot Bloomstein shares examples of how organizations are successfully incorporating content strategy into their information architecture. Here’s an excerpt from the article: What's in, and what's out? “In my experience, it is very easy for brilliant information [...]


Writing Testable JavaScript

May 21, 2013 - We've all been there: that bit of JavaScript functionality that started out as just a handful of lines grows to a dozen, then two dozen, then more. Along the way, a function picks up a few more arguments; a conditional picks up a few more conditions. And then one day, the bug report comes in: [...]


Three Reasons I Hate Laptops in Meetings

May 20, 2013 - As someone who has been a professional software developer for quite some time, I often joke that each year I hate technology more and more. I'm not going to on Foursquare, won't ever use a daily deal, don't do Facebook, and finally deleted my LinkedIn account last year. I'm not [...]


Sketch app templates

May 20, 2013 - Sketchmine provides .sketch files for use in Bohemian Coding's Sketch app for Mac. The files are free to download and are contributed by the Sketch community.


Key UX Strategy Methods, Tools, and Deliverables | Communica [...]

May 20, 2013 - By Janet M. Six Published: May 20, 2013 Send your questions to Ask UXmatters and get answers from some of the top professionals in UX. In this edition of Ask UXmatters, our experts discuss key methods, tools, and deliverables of user experience strategy, as well as the best way to communicate UX [...]


UX Strategy and the Age of Alignment

May 20, 2013 - By Tim Loo Published: May 20, 2013 “Many of the challenges, issues, and pain points that I talk about in this article reflect my immersion in very large multinational organizations.” As a UX strategist and business consultant, I work with big business. My clients are primarily global brands with [...]


Reus Gameplay first 40 minutes

May 20, 2013 - After having played a bit of Metro: Last Light, I decided to give Reus a try. The first 40 minutes of gameplay of the Indie game Reus. I really liked the idea of a semi-Populous, semi-Black & White game in which you control your civilizations through wonders, gifts and other means. This is what [...]


Last Light

May 19, 2013 - After playing a bit of Metro: Last Ligt I decided to record some of the initial gameplay. This is the intro and training sequence of the game. Spoiler free (you should have played the first one though): This is running smoothly on an i7 @ 2.66GHz, 12GB RAM and a GTX 580 @ 1920×1200, all [...]





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