"What do you do?" is by far the most difficult question that any UX Designer can ever be asked. This presentation hopes to offer a bit more insight into what UX can involve and to share its benefits which can't normally be summed up easily.
Had a great time presenting at SuperMondays SuperUX night. Thanks to everyone who came and all the wonderful messages.
"What do you do?" is by far the most difficult question that any UX Designer can ever be asked. This presentation hopes to offer a bit more insight into what UX can involve and to share its benefits which can't normally be summed up easily.
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Lots of people asked about resources such as books and links, heres a quick list a made to help:
My favourite books, see if any of them take your fancy...
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web - Morville, Rosenfeld
Dont Make Me Think - Krug
Sketching User Experiences - Buxton
Designing for Interaction: Creating Innovative Applications and Devices - Saffer
The Design of Everyday Things- Don Norman
Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design- Tidwell
Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interactions - Scott & Neil
Lots from http://www.rosenfeldmedia.com
Two of my favourites - Storytelling for User Experience and Web Form Design
Books on my wishlist (my birthdays in 2 weeks, hint hint...)
http://practical-ia.com/
Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-it-yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems - Krug
Around the web:
http://www.adaptivepath.com/blog
http://www.uxbooth.com
http://boxesandarrows.com
http://uxmag.com
http://www.uxmatters.com
http://johnnyholland.org/
http://www.slideshare.net
http://wireframes.linowski.ca/
http://www.alistapart.com
http://52weeksofux.com/
http://www.disambiguity.com/
http://changeorder.typepad.com/weblog/
http://www.cooper.com/journal/
Twitter:
A few Twitter lists and resources which post often
http://twitter.com/finduxevents
http://twitter.com/use_this
http://twitter.com/RosenfeldMedia
http://twitter.com/iainstitute
http://twitter.com/Writing4Web
http://twitter.com/userfocus
http://twitter.com/Design_Innovate
http://twitter.com/uxbooks
http://twitter.com/smashingmag
Usability Testing Resources
http://www.loop11.com/
http://www.whatusersdo.com/
http://silverbackapp.com/
http://fivesecondtest.com/