ModCloth_UXR

Infographic on the growth of tablet.

Concepts & examples on the division of UX positions, as well as ways to share & promote your work (blogs, speeches, portfolios). Potentially helpful with our goal of increasing UXR outreach & reputation-building. Presentation by Jason Mesut, Head of UX at RMA.

Discovery Week is an experimental and learning process to look at the next phase of the Guardian's digital future. The plan for the week is for the various teams and departments within the Guardian to collaborate and build a wide variety of projects and then demo them across the organisation at the end of the process. There are five themes for the week: Content Journeys, Visual Design, Social, Live and Commercial. Teams from Google, Mozilla, and the Guardian's US office have travelled to work on one or more project within these themes.

Today, customers can interact with your storefront in various digital places--desktop, mobile, and tablet--and expect experiences tailored to where they do so. You can no longer simply build a website and assume your digital job is done. Here's how to build a digital strategy that makes sense across platforms

T-commerce tastes like it sounds. It's the use of television to facilitate transactions over the Internet. Research by PayPal in late 2011 found 49% of TV subscribers have interest in purchasing goods and services through their television or other "screen" like smartphones and tablets. At least 11 t-commerce initiatives are taking advantage of connected TV's transactional capabilities today

Verify is the fastest way to collect and analyze user feedback on screens or mocks. See where people click, what they remember, or how they feel.

Andy Weissman, a partner at Union Square Ventures, laid out his firm's investment thesis this morning. USV has invested in grand slams like Zynga and Twitter. It is also an investor in Tumblr, Etsy and Foursquare. Weissman's colleague Brad Burnham tweeted the essence of the firm: "Large networks of engaged users, differentiated through user experience, and defensible through network effects."

If you've ever run a research or usability test, you'll know they can be tricky to facilitate. After all, you're dealing with people; and people come with a whole host of existing preconceptions, personalities, emotions, and experiences. One thing that can help you to gain more honest and thereby useful feedback from research participants is, in fact, to lie to them.

The new business meeting was going swimmingly-that is, until the client started asking questions about our design process. Then we unleashed our lexicon of specialized user experience (UX) research terminology. Why should we do that thing you called...what was it, task analysis? We'd like some of those personas. They're important, right? What the heck is contextual inquiry?! As mental models flew about the room, I realized how hard it is for clients to understand the true value of UX research. As much as I'd like to tell my clients to go read The Elements of User Experience and call me back when they're done, that won't cut it in a professional services environment. The whole team needs a common language and a philosophy that's easy to grok.

sort of like usertesting.com but with a lot more detail. eye tracking and emotion tracking coming soon.

Practical tips and tricks to better survey design

Like Amway, you sell chloe + isabel jewelry & earn 30% commission. It's kinda social b/c you have an online boutique.

You may be thinking, oh no, not another Pinfographic! This week's infographic takes a look at why both etailers and content marketers should take this exploding social network seriously. I've said it before, I'll say it once more - Pinterest is a social network not about what people are doing, but about the things that people want to consume. And it already refers more traffic than Twitter. The network is growing beyond the Midwest. Though still predominantly female, the entrance of well-known brands are drawing more and more XY chromosomes. So who are you talking to and how should you plant your flag? Maxymizer's pinfographic has some great pinformation.

Screen sharing tool

Screen sharing tool

Create your own word cloud from any text to visualize word frequency. Doesn't customize color/font like others, but groups similar words and can include count of words.

Nielsen Norman paper