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Jesse James Garrett’s Elements of User Experience

Jesse James Garrett’s The Elements of User Experience: User Centered Design for the Web is certainly the piece de resistance of or the user experience design and Garrett’s something of the godfather of the discipline. You simply cannot do UXD and not have read the Elements. Together with ia/recon and the Visual Vocabulary (already drafted [...]

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Bashing the blurb

I usually have a hard time finishing Gerry McGovern’s New Thinking because I can’t scroll very well with two thumbs up (maybe the new MacBook Air with its ingenious multitouch technology could be of help here?). But last week’s instalment? (Great websites do, not say, Jan 14, 2008)
McGovern apparently has a bone to grind (or [...]

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The iPhone … ok, ok

The iPhone seems to be getting a slow start in Germany. At least according to most local media. Over in the US, 10.000 units sold on the first day come across as quite a success. And it appears that a lot of iPhone disillusionment is media made.
We all know that Americans are just indiscriminate fanbois [...]

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Remember deep pages

Netbank has been in the newsletters with its relaunch the “largely avoids scrolling”.
Now, this claim is not quite true to the point: deep, content-heavy pages do scroll - and why shouldn’t they? (See e.g. Boxes and Arrows: Blasting the Myth of the Fold).
There are more severe blunders on the Netbank site, though. Linked and unlinked [...]

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