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Coffee break for Oct 25th – Oct 28th

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Elad Blog: Hire For The Ability To Get Shit Done
A thousand amens.
Codecademy Looks Like The Future Of Learning To Me « Uncrunched
I cannot say enough great things about Code Academy.
Rands In Repose: The Rands Test
Lopp's blog is a gem in general when it comes to management and this post is a great example why. Simple, yet thorough, post to help you get a read on the quality of communication at your organization.
cdixon.org – chris dixon’s blog / Some lessons learned
A old classic from Chris.

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Digital bric-a-brac for October 18th – October 25th

by Alex Rainert on October 25, 2011 · 0 comments

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The Psychologist’s View of UX Design | UX Magazine
Awesome post.
What are your golden metrics? – GeekWire
Good post on identifying what your most important metrics are so you can track them and eventually make decisions based on them.
For a Future-Friendly Web
Great presentation on designing for mobile and the native vs. web debate.
Data Viz: Design Frontier | Punchcut
Fascinating presentation by Nick Felton on his process. He sure sounds a bit wistful in the first few minutes about his pre-Facebook days.
What the Starbucks Card Teaches Us About the Future of Transactions | MarketingProfs Daily Fix Blog
Comprehensive Review Of Usability And User Experience Testing Tools – Smashing UX Design
My Dinner With Android – Four months with Android: reflections, grievances and some tenuous metaphors bundled up into a weighty tome
Google Wallet – A missed opportunity? Drop Labs
Qui utilise Foursquare en France ? Télécharger les résultats de l’enquête !
Amazing results of a study in France on foursquare usage. Some really nice dataviz going on here too.

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everydayUX morsels for March 15th – March 16th

by Alex Rainert on March 16, 2011 · 0 comments

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A VC: Airbnb
Great story on how Fred Wilson missed out on Airbnb and how he's trying to avoid letting it happen again.
startuptools / FrontPage
An amazing wiki collection of tools that various startups are using.
DropboxAddons/Dropbox Droplet – Dropbox Wiki
Nice little DropBox hack to make it work more like CloudApp.
Android Design Guidelines
Thorough walk-through of various Android UI conventions. Bookmark it for your next Android project!
Commandeering public video screens: real or fake? – Hack a Day
Turns out is was a fake!
It Doesn’t Matter Which Pill I Take; I’m Already in the Matrix. « Curiosity | GSD&M Blog
A great post that captures the essence and nuances of being a UX designer better than most I've seen.

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EverydayUX morsels (June 5th – June 16th)

by Alex Rainert on June 16, 2010 · 0 comments

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TweetEffect- When did you lose or gain twitter followers?
Twitter tool to see how your tweets affected your follower count.
Anti-Competitive AND Potentially Creepy – @drbarnard
Great background on the whole situation.
2010 MTV Movie Awards Twitter Tracker
Really sweet visualization tool from the folks at Stamen.
2010 MTV Movie Awards Twitter Tracker
Really sweet visualization tool from the folks at Stamen.
Foursquare Style Guide
Nice superuser-created Style Guide for editing venues on foursquare.
Foursquare Is Awesome For My Small Business
Nice, though painfully laid out as one tweet at a time, walkthrough of how a small business is successfully using foursquare.
The iPad Web Design & Development Toolbox | iPhone.AppStorm
Every tool you could possibly need to design an experience on the iPad.
A VC: The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering
Great FRed Wilson jam on the importance of the relationship between Product and Engineering at a startup.

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EverydayUX morsels (June 2nd – June 5th)

by Alex Rainert on June 5, 2010 · 0 comments

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The iPad Web Design & Development Toolbox | iPhone.AppStorm
Every tool you could possibly need to design an experience on the iPad.
A VC: The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering
Great FRed Wilson jam on the importance of the relationship between Product and Engineering at a startup.
Nokia’s bike-powered phone charger – Core77
I recently got to work on a project where we researched and pitched something like this. Good times.
You Are What You Carry: Photo Series Shows the Gadgets in Our Bags | MobileBehavior
Love stuff like this.
iPad vs iPhone User Experience: Square at Sightglass on Vimeo
Awesome side by side comparison. Love what Sightglass is doing but would also love to see other businesses used as an example.
The simplest way to find great web design inspiration – Pattern Tap
Beautiful design pattern browsing experience.
21 Unique Location Case Studies from Foursquare, Gowalla, Whrrl, and MyTown
Nice collection of foursquare + brands case studies.
21 Unique Location Case Studies from Foursquare, Gowalla, Whrrl, and MyTown
Nice collection of foursquare + brands case studies.
What | Edenspiekermann
In what has become an arms race of creative spec work, it's refreshing to see this approach to pitches.

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EverydayUX morsels (March 6th – March 7th)

by Alex Rainert on March 7, 2010 · 0 comments

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OO – High Definition Wireless Projector | Design You Trust
Stunning industrial design. Beautiful demo video.
ManageMyLife.com – Home Improvement Projects, Owner’s Manuals & Home Management Tools
Interesting DIY/project sharing community brought to you by Sears. Nice to see big old brands come with something new.
15 Amazing Interactive Installations – Noupe
Some pretty amazing, inspirational stuff in here.
saying no is a powerful service to offer clients / what consumes me, bud caddell
GREAT post. Amazing how hard it is for some agencies to say no to anything, even when everyone in the room knows it's the right thing to do.
The UX Canon: Essential Reading for the User Experience Designer
Comprehensive reading list for the upstart UX Designer.
Choosing pagination tap zones – Instapaper Blog
DO sweat the small stuff.
Apple Getting Serious About Near Field Communication on the iPhone – Patently Apple
Love to imagine the possibilities of context + proximity-aware devices.
Chris Harrison – Skinput
Awesome demo of UI projected on your skin. Rad.

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EverydayUX morsels (March 1st – March 6th)

by Alex Rainert on March 6, 2010 · 0 comments

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Case Study: How To Use Foursquare To Draw A Crowd Into Your Restaurant | Steffan Antonas
Great post from @steffanantonas showing the power of mobile to enhance real-world human interactions.
img.ly – What people buy online and what people buy offline. Very interesting.
Beautiful visualization of what people are buying online vs. in stores.
Books in the Age of the iPad — Craig Mod
Top notch post on how the future of literature + book design looks in a post-iPad world (hint = they look awesome)
Books in the Age of the iPad — Craig Mod
Top notch post on how the future of literature + book design looks in a post-iPad world (hint = they look awesome)
Gesturecons – Multi-Touch Icons
Nice collection of gesture icons.
Stop What You Are Doing & Install This Plug-In: Rapportive
Very very clever. Check it out if you're a Gmail user.
Adidas miCoach Pacer Review: Like Nike+, Only Better – Adidas micoach pacer review – Gizmodo
Pretty positive for Adidas' entry in the personal fitness tracking space. At first glance it sounds like too many wires (and other stuff) for me but what you get back sounds pretty great. Good to see people challenging Nike+ on this stuff.
Daring Fireball: Assorted Brief Observations and Thoughts Regarding Windows Phone 7
Great post from @gruber on what Microsoft got right with Windows Phone 7 (argh) and what hills they have yet to vanquish.

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EverydayUX morsels (March 1st – March 1st)

by Alex Rainert on March 1, 2010 · 0 comments

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CSS Border Radius
Nice tool to generate the code for rounded corners via CSS
Attic App – iPhone App For Forgotten Albums in Your Library
Smart idea for an app with a clever interface.
young me now me photo contest :: zefrank.com
Simple, poignant project form Ze Frank.
The Omni Mouth » Designing OmniGraphSketcher for the iPad
It'll be hard but if they can get the interaction right, Graffle on the iPad could be totally rad.
LukeW | "Mad Libs" Style Form Increases Conversion 25-40%
My first interaction with this style of form was with Ted Roden's enjoysthin.gs and I loved it. I'm sure we can expect to see lots of folks giving it a go now.
Good design is… – 52 Weeks of UX
Never forget Dieter's list.
Do You Follow Too Many People On Twitter? Use ManageTwitter.
Gave this app a go and totally loved it. If you feel like you've got too much twitter noise, give it a shot.
Facebook Patents The News Feed (Updated)
Aren't patents awesome?

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EverydayUX morsels (January 31st – February 5th)

by Alex Rainert on February 5, 2010 · 0 comments

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Apple, Major League Baseball Team Up on iPad App | Latest Apple News Blog | Apple SKY
MLB at Bat on the iPad may just be enough to seal the deal for me. Wow. Absolutely love what MLB.com's been doing.
The iPad UI Dissected In Photos
Nice little resource to get a sense of all the different UI elements coming in the iPad.
LukeW | iPad Apps: Physicality and Heightened Realism
Welcome to Hokeytown.
LOS LOGOS :: Typography Served
Nice case study on the approach to an identity design.
LukeW | iPad User Experience Guidelines
Nice high level summary of the iPad specific guidelines.
What the iPad Means for the Future of Computing | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
It makes me so happy to see sites designed for mobile use be better experiences than their web counterparts.
Unleashing the Power of Website Analytics
Nice high level primer on how to make sense of analytics data and roll that info back into your design process.
Big Spaceship | Think Blog – Getting Past Viral
One of the best pieces I've read addressing agencies' and brands' misguided belief that media can be engineered to be viral. A must read.

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EverydayUX morsels (January 12th – January 13th)

by Alex Rainert on January 13, 2010 · 0 comments

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Awesome Examples of Creative Infographic Illustrations – woorkup.com
Drool.
Social Media Icons — Paul Robert Lloyd
Beautiful set of icons for the most popular social networking sites out there.
The Apple App Store Economy – GigaOM
Remember when no one downloaded apps to their phones? That was so not very long ago.
The Switch From iPhone To Android, And Why Your First Impression Is Wrong
Smartphone's are devices that are so deeply woven into your personal routine that judging them quickly really isn't the proper way to evaluate them. This piece does a great job highlighting why.
Hiring & The Sixth Sense of Expertise | Dustin Curtis
Amazing how often companies get this wrong. Great piece.
How 12 Hours, 2 Guys, 6 Cups of Coffee = 1 iPhone App – iPhone App – Gizmodo
Inspirational story on how 2 guys cranked out an iPhone app in a weekend. Great commentary of the benefits of a tight team where each person know what to do.
The anatomy of useful feedback – Jeffrey Kalmikoff, Creative Powerhouse.
Great piece on the benefits of soliciting cross-disciplinary feedback throughout your process.
siteInspire | Home | inspiring web design and CSS gallery
Well-executed collection of beautifully-designed sites. Throw this in your "Inspiration" folder.

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Coffee break for Oct 25th – Oct 28th

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EverydayUX morsels (June 5th – June 16th)

EverydayUX morsels (June 2nd – June 5th)

EverydayUX morsels (March 6th – March 7th)

EverydayUX morsels (March 1st – March 6th)

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