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October 18 2011
How To Build An Agile UX Team: The Culture
This is the first in a three-part series on how to build and grow successful user experience teams in agile environments. It covers challenges related to organization, hiring and integration that plague UX teams in these situations. The perspective is that of a team l...
Costa Rica getaway sparks Tony Wright’s latest app: TouchBase Calendar
It is a little ironic that Tony Wright’s latest startup project, TouchBase Calendar, was built in the shadow of the Costa Rica beaches. After all, that’s one place where you’d think the rat race of scheduling meetings and making appointments on time would be a super low priority.
But Costa Rica was the birthplace of Wright’s new iPhone app, known as TouchBase Calendar. Wright, who co-founded...
October 12 2011
The Gamification
When Joel Spolsky and I set out to design the Stack Exchange Q&A engine in 2008 -- then known as Stack Overflow -- we borrowed liberally and unapologetically from any online system that we felt worked. Some of our notable influences included:
- Reddit and Digg voting
- Xbox 360 achievements
- Wikipedia editing
- eBay karma
- Blogs and blog comments
- Classic web bulletin boards
All these elements were...
September 28 2011
Seattle animation startup launches with first project, a Startup Foundation animation
Jen Zug
A new startup specializing in explanatory animated videos is launching in Seattle this week — and for a group of people taking the entrepreneurial plunge, it would be hard to imagine a more appropriate first project than this video.
The startup, called What Now? Exactly! made this animation for the formal debut this week of the Startup Foundation, an initiative launched by Seattle-based S...
September 18 2011
Interface Design is Copywriting
There is a lot to like in the presentation The Language of Interfaces by Des Traynor, in which he makes several important points about Interface Design.
The first is that words mean everything in the interface. Every single word you choose is important, from the call-to-action button to the headline to the words in an error message. Each word, if carefully chosen, adds to the experience of the ...
September 10 2011
August 28 2011
(CC) Randy Stewart, blog.stewtopia.com.
Feel free to use this picture. Please credit as shown. If you are a person that I have taken a photo of, it's yours (but I'd still be curious as to where it is).
August 21 2011
July 02 2011
June 23 2011
(CC) Randy Stewart, blog.stewtopia.com.
Feel free to use this picture. Please credit as shown. If you are a person that I have taken a photo of, it's yours (but I'd still be curious as to where it is).
(CC) Randy Stewart, blog.stewtopia.com.
Feel free to use this picture. Please credit as shown. If you are a person that I have taken a photo of, it's yours (but I'd still be curious as to where it is).
May 28 2011
The best Oprah emails to Opera (the browser)
Shared by Stewtopia
This almost makes me want to use the Opera browser.
Espen André Øverdahl at the browser company Opera writes,
Today is the last Oprah show in the history of television. To us in Opera this is really sad news. This show has brought us great joy throughout the years. We've been receiving lots of mail from Oprah fans, asking us questions, complaining or simply just opening...
May 26 2011
Have you ever wanted to scare potential users away? Me too! Try asking for every possible Facebook permission at once!
Eek!
Sonar.me sounds like a cool app, but they might want to tone down their permissions a bit. Do they want my bank account PIN and Social Security Number as well?
May 09 2011
Sci-Fi Ikea Manuals
Celebrity Pictures, Lol Celebs and Funny Actor and Actress Photos - ROFLrazzi
You take all the left over pieces and voila! A sequel!
Source: collegehumor
April 27 2011
Proximity in Design: Why I Can’t Use My Car’s A/C
I’m always fumbling with the A/C controls in my car. My daily commute is in hot, sunny Southern California, home of the courteous freeway driver. I can’t afford to take my eyes off the road for too long to find the control I’m looking for. Half of the time when I’m trying to adjust the temperature, I end up blowing my beard off because I’ve spun the wrong dial. If my wife’s in the car with ...
April 21 2011
April 20 2011
Duck Tales - 080 -2/3 The Golden Goose - part 2-2
April 17 2011
Maybe Soup is currently being updated? I'll try again automatically in a few seconds...
