EverydayUX morsels (January 10th – January 12th)

• Why microcopy matters – Polon
  Some great principles (with examples) in here.
• Lose It or Lose It | Lose the weight or lose your money! 100% FREE if you make all 10 of your weekly weigh in goals!
  What could make weight loss more fun? Gambling! Great idea.
• Always Be Testing: 8 Services For Usability Feedback – ReadWriteStart
  Nice collection of tools to collect feedback from your users.
• What Information Overload? // NoahBrier.com
  "Information overload only occurs when the structure of the information being offered to you isn't intuitive for you. It's not the amount of information; it's that you're stuck in a meta-rut due to age, attitude, or lousy intellectual environment." – Scott Rafer
• Matt Galligan – The Case For a Better iPhone
  Nice list of 5 pretty significant areas where the iPhone is starting to slip behind its competitors. Great to see Matt blogging again, too. I expect good things from this one.
• The Nambu Network | Blog | Nambu in 2010
  A really great example of honest, earnest communication b/t a company & its users.
• UXD in Advertising, Part 2 :: Conceptology
  Nice follow up piece to Karri's post on the role of UXD in Advertising.
• GOOD.is | Using Technology to Make Shopping Better (Raw Image)
  Nice infographic showing how active the savviest retailers are on Twitter.

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