Flashbulb Interaction
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Flashbulb Interaction, Inc. is a research, strategy, and design consultancy that works with clients to envision powerful and engaging user experiences for knowledge workers at the forefronts of their fields.

"How then do you create an effective call to action? Here are 10 techniques which help achieve just that."

Every website should have a call to action, a response you want users to complete.

Every website should have a call to action, a response you want users to complete. But how do you encourage users to act? How do you create an effective call to action.

"95% of web users do not read 80% of your content. With these statistics already working against you, how can you improve your content to ensure that readers are getting the best user experience from your site?"

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streamlined user testing idea

Dilbert on User Experience

Dilbert on User Experience May 26th, 2009 by Harry Brignull • 8 comments A selection of Dilbert strips. Oldies but goodies…

A selection of Dilbert strips. Oldies but goodies…

for future exploration

Use it better is an online tool for testing & analysing user experience and usability on Adobe Flash Websites

ux links

User Experience Resources: Books, blogs, publications, etc.

Author: Robert Fabricant Content:  Over the past several months, I’ve been fortunate to meet and talk to a number of people — among them Jan Chipchase of Nokia, Peter Whybrow of UCLA, and Caroline Hummels of Delft University of

Great Article on User Centered Design

Robert Fabricant asks how designers can influence behaviour.

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visto en el twitter de torresburriel

How To Increase Site Performance Through A/B Split Testing

If you’re doing design & user experience work in an open source community, then chances are we have a lot in common – no matter what community we’re working in. We have some big challenges every day, but we also know that if we can overcome those challenges we can make a really big contribution to the sustainability and increased popularity of open source software.

Leisa Reichelt's been working on Drupal (in the open) and sent this pointer to a community for people doing UED work for open source projects

For people who make things for people who use things...

Nine Essential Characteristics of Good UX Designers

What makes a good UX Designer / Information Architect

Article by Christopher Detzi. As web designers and information architects, we often dismiss deep consideration of content when we design interactive experiences.

Finally, a conversation about content...

"It’s impossible to fully evaluate the effectiveness of a web experience without having the content represented and under the same microscope as the design"

10 mitos da experiência do usuário

What’s your role? Are you a designer who needs “real copy” for your comps? Maybe you’re an information architect trying to organize an experience, or a search engine marketer eager to influence your client with keywords they’ll actually use. Whatever your role, a content strategist can help you be more successful.

The Case for Content Strategy—Motown Style

"At a more thematic level, first working through the 'big issues' of content strategy, like communication goals and messaging, can help you hit the mark in your respective deliverables. "

Content strategy thoughts.

From 0.1 seconds to 10 years or more, user interface design has many different timeframes, and each has its own particular usability issues.

Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox

people can make rough decisions about a Web page's visual appeal after being exposed to it for as little as 50 ms, which is 1/20 of a second

tidsstudie over brug af website, 1 sek, 1 min. 10 min. osv.

blog on uxftw

If we could tear into the fabric of time and look a decade into the future, what kind of experience might we find? In this article we will explore creating a timeless user experience.

10 blogs sobre User Experience, a acompanhar.

Agile projects aren't yet fully user-driven, but new research shows that developers are actually more bullish on key user experience issues than UX people themselves.

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/agile-methods.html Agile projects aren't yet fully user-driven, but new research shows that developers are actually more bullish on key user experience issues than UX people themselves. # Separate design and development, and have the user interface team progress one step ahead of the implementation team. That way, when it comes time to build something, it's already been designed and tested. (And yes, you can do both in a week or two by using paper prototypes and discount user testing.) # Maintain a coherent vision of the user interface architecture. Create the initial vision during a "sprint zero" period — before any implementation has started — and maintain it through annual (or semi-annual) design vision sprints. You can't just design individual features; they have to fit together into a coherent whole — a whole that must be designed as well. Bottom-up user interface design equals a confused total user experience (the Linux syndrome).

Distributing your UX personnel doesn't mean you have to abandon all the benefits of having a centralized, specialized group. Often, a matrix structure provides a good compromise, making UX professionals part of individual projects on a day-to-day basis, but still offering some company-wide coordination.

Nothing new, but fun to throw at the suits - "Clearly, Agile is considerably better than the old Waterfall method. Good riddance to that one. However, the professionals in our new study still felt that Iterative Design was marginally better than Agile"

5 Damn Easy Ways To Improve User Experience

Simple tips for a good UX. These are obvious wins...

Prior to becoming a senior UX designer at Popular Front Interactive, I spent two years as a mobile UX researcher within the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Mobile Technologies Group – a lab tasked with both future-casting and then rapidly prototyping innovative mobile experiences.

Sometimes, as a strategist, I think I fill both roles. And I know I'm wrong about that.

So true! Especially #5.. I hate that! :O

Oh man I TOTALLY agree with #1 - I hate being forced to click for multiple page articles like that - what a waste of my time. I live in a rural area and don't have the fastest internet - waiting for each new page to load makes me more and more frustrated and less and less likely to finish the article. At the very least, offer a "view on one page" option like some sites do. On some sites, I've used the print version to view articles on one page and not interrupt my reading, but not all sites work that way, either. Please - just stop with the gratuitous multiple pages people!

I understand the marketing incentives for all of these tactics, but I have to admit that they are something that must drive non-marketers crazy.

Websites have some impractical, clunky designs. Let's aim for streamlining designs to facilitate easier web browsing and better information layout. I hate seeing poor website design. It tastes like farts. Farts, farts, farts, farts, farts!

storytelling

This article will outline the process we use to create rich applications, focusing primarily on screen design. All of the content is geared specifically toward productivity applications like Software as a Service (SaaS) products and Rich Enterprise Applications (REAs)

In the first part of this Better User Experience With Storytelling series, we explored some of the basic structures and story patterns found in myths and religions. We saw how these patterns continued into modern stories such as The Matrix and Star Wars. We also explored some of the basics of bringing storytelling into the user experience process and some places to get started. Concluding this two-part article, we hear from creative professionals who are leading the way in this relatively new world of combining the craft of storytelling with user experience. We’ll also see how storytelling can be applied to more than just interactive experiences: we find it in everything from packaging to architecture.

In the first part of this Better User Experience With Storytelling series, we explored some of the basic structures and story patterns found in myths and religions.

The UX Canon: Essential Reading for the User Experience Designer

Extensive list of User Experience reading

task in mind. This means their tunnel vision is already on, they

USER EXPERIENCE RULES

How to Listen to the User and Hear the Experience

Active Listening consists of a set of communication techniques

Livros de UX para ler em 2010

Some choice observations on UX including: ‘People can only look at so much information or read so much text on a screen without losing interest. Only provide the information that's needed at the moment (see progressive disclosure...).’

Umfangreicher Guide einer Psychologin zu guter Usability

L'avis d'un psychologue sur la création d'interfaces utilisateurs

On Engineering and Design: An Open Letter Microsoft Research Principal Scientist Bill Buxton calls for engineers and user-experience designers to learn to appreciate one another

Quick and Dirty Remote User Testing (via @AListApart): http://bit.ly/azRGR0 (via @Loop11)

UX Myths http://uxmyths.com/ (via @igloodigital)

Tumblr about misconceptions of UX.

A lot of this is common knowledge for most UX designers, but there are still some interesting nuggets of information.

ial plot refer to the six dimensions and three components in detail to ensur

There are six dimensions and three components of experience the map should capture. These represent important reference points for features of the service design – e.g. how the service is found, who uses it, what they’re looking for, what information they use, who and what is of most help etc. By capturing these experiential aspects we ensure the customers’ voice is represented as the service is designed and implemented.