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nice, narrative info-graphic explaining the IA's job

Biscuits? Yeah, BISCUITS. 'cause everyone loves biscuits. (and we're from the South)

"3 fantastic days with User Experience Professionals from all over the world. 16 workshops to develop your skills, 10 talks to inspire you and 16 slots open for you to share your experiences. All this coupled with lots of parties and meetups in sunny Lisbon."

"Recently I wrote about User Stories and how card based software development can help identify 'clear, brief descriptions of functionality as described from the perspective of a user'. Today I want to look at how User Stories or 'Stories' can impact the user interface (UI) design and user experience (UX) of a software product."

A good perspective on UX methods from an 'Agile' guy

A great post on how Wordpress handles media and particularly how to use the add_image_size() function to crop featured images. (At least that's how I found it when I was searching on Google.)

Jeff Sauro is a boss.

Another good article by Mike Hughes, IBM fellow and UX'er. Explains the roles of UX vs role of UI

Getting to know Mike Hughes and so should you

example of a script. The theme is sound, but they aren't doing it right. All kinds of errors and badness going on

"Startups frequently use surveys as a cheap and easy way to get feedback from users. But the resulting data will only be as good as the survey itself. I often see products with surveys that have easy-to-fix mistakes like misleading questions, improper sampling, and skewed rating scales. That's a shame - these teams could be collecting better data and making better decisions if they just paid a bit more attention to survey design."

You can screw up making a survey. Read this to avoid that.

A nice summary and definition of UX and Experience Design by Marc Hassenzahl with comments by Don Norman and Eric Riess

Landing pages and scrolling. Good article and tests about the 'whatnots and whathaveyous' of page scrolling.

A UX designer community forum. Brilliant idea

A stackExchange or StackOverflow message board. Great discussion going on here

A good definition of 'User Experience Design' and it's sub sections - visual design /// information Arch, Content Strategy, Interaction design /// User Research, Product Discovery

Author talks about using screencasts along with his mockups ... sounds alot like our idea of the CoDec. A mockup doesn't give enough information to the sender. IT's all there, but they don't know how to access it. They don't know the story. The backstory. The 'behind the scenes'. If they don't know, they will make it up. And, what they make up depends largely on impressions of you, personally, not your work. This is a bad way to be, even if it works out in the short-term. In the long run, you want to communicate effectively and rely on solid work, not just 'good feelings'

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"How did you get into the field of user experience?" is a question we get all the time. While the AnswerLab team members all share a passion for improving the digital world, we each have a different tale of what led us here. We're sharing our stories in a new series of user experience expertise blog posts where the AnswerLab team reveals what feeds our curiosity and what led us to UX research.

The origin story of a UX superhero!