Stories
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IA Summit 2008, Day 1
by Chris Baum and Jeff Parks | [7 comments]
The IA Summit was held in Miami, FL from April 10-14. Boxes and Arrows captured many of the main conference sessions. Check out the presentations from Saturday, April 12.
As the sessions are produced, they will
be added to the respective day here on B&A. You can also subscribe to the
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IA Summit 2008, Day 2
by Chris Baum and Jeff Parks | [0 comments]
The IA Summit was held in Miami, FL from April 10-14. Boxes and Arrows captured many of the main conference sessions. Check out the presentations from Sunday, April 13. more...
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IA Summit 2008, Day 3
by Chris Baum and Jeff Parks | [2 comments]
The IA Summit was held in Miami, FL from April 10-14. Boxes and Arrows captured many of the
main conference sessions.
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Meet Your Peers
by Jorge Arango | [6 comments]
The people behind the ideas, design concepts, and practices in publications like Boxes & Arrows are not always visible in ways that does them justice.
At the 2007 Summit, B&A Managing Editor Jorge Arango set out to ask some of the attendees three questions. He captured them on video, and we are publishing them as inspiration for the upcoming 2008 Summit in Miami April 10-14. more... -
Extreme User Research
by Daniel Lafreniere | [33 comments]
Clients don’t know a thing about their users, and designers think that if they like it, everyone will. Sound familiar? Daniel Lafreniere's 30-minute "extreme user research" plan comes to the rescue for those of us facing this exact situation. With this practical method, you can generate loads of useful data that will have a real impact on design, thus making the website more effective and profitable. more...
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We Tried To Warn You, Part 2
by Peter Jones | [8 comments]
Some failure allows organizations to learn and grow; others times it can be catastrophic. In Part 2 of his series, Peter Jones explores timing dynamics of large projects and alternatives to the framing of UX roles and organizations today. more...
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Cues, The Golden Retriever
by Jamie Owen | [10 comments]
Jamie Owen explores how we can best utilize cues in our work by understanding how memory, cognitive psychology, and multimedia research affect how information is encoded and retrieved. more...
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We Tried To Warn You, Part 1
by Peter Jones | [15 comments]
Some failure allows complex organizations to learn and grow; others can be catastrophic. Peter Jones explores
how, as designers, we have a
responsibility to detect and assess
the potential for large-scale failure.
How can we help stop the train? more... -
Enhancing Dashboard Value and User Experience
by Joe Lamantia | [7 comments]
In this article, part five of a series, the author describes ways to enhance the long-term value and user experience quality of portals by encouraging portability and natural patterns of dialog and interaction around aggregated content. more...
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Using Design Visuals To Communicate Ideas
by Jeff Parks | [0 comments]
Jeff Parks talks to a few of the very talented folks from VizThink '08. more...
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Personas and the Role of Design Documentation
by Andrew Hinton | [23 comments]
Andrew Hinton digs into the origins of the persona and reflects on how business uses (or misuses) design documentation. more...
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Minding Your Ps And Qs
by Yaniv Nord | [7 comments]
In Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home Authors David Shipley and Will Schwalbe give advice on composing and sending email. Read Yaniv Nord's review of the book. more...
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What Is Your Mental Model?
by Chris Baum | [9 comments]
Indi Young talks about the power of the mental model and how it can grow over time and help your organization avoid strategic blindspots. The story includes an excerpt of her new book, and B&A readers are elegible for a discount. more...
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The Trouble With Web 2.0
by Alexander Wilms | [20 comments]
Will Web 2.0 technology and design patterns ever work inside large enterprises? They are jumping on the hype, announcing their own implementation projects. Alexander Wilms looks in-depth at some issues and challenges corporations might face. more...
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Search Behavior Patterns
by John Ferrara | [6 comments]
People search for information online is often in idiosyncratic ways. It's rarely as straightforward as designers of search systems assume. John Ferrara gives us hope as he helps us think about a broader search ecology and identifies patterns in behavior that serve as the basis for good search design. more...
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Advancing Advanced Search
by Stephen Turbek | [21 comments]
The success of the simple search box has relegated advanced search to second-class status. Stephen Turbek looks to resurrect this useful feature from the dustbins of the design toolbox and suggest some useful ways for designers to utilize it effectively. more...
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Our Way: The Ingenuity of Unintended Uses
by B&A Staff | [12 comments]
People utilize our designs in their own way. These unintended uses can be strange, even brilliant. To welcome 2008, the B&A Staff tells a few stories about how we misuse for our own devices. more...
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Interactions 08 in the Garden of Good and Evil
by Chris Baum | [3 comments]
Dan Saffer opens up to B&A about the IxDA and Interaction 08 conference. He helps us understand context of the organization, how the conference evolved, and what to expect in Savannah. more...
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Foundations of Interaction Design
by Jeff Parks | [4 comments]
Jeff Parks speaks with David Malouf on his article, Foundations of Interaction Design. They discuss several foundations of Interaction design explore in greater detail issues posted in the story's comments. more...
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Building the UX Dreamteam
by Anthony Colfelt | [34 comments]
Every time you hire someone for your UX team, you make a gut call that their personality and skills are what they seem. Anthony Colfelt looks to arm you with ways to make the hiring decisions that fit the best people into the reality of your business context. more...