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ATTENTION

FRONT-END DEVELOPERS

You know who you are. You’re probably geeking out in jQuery as you’re reading this. If you can slice up a PSD, write clean and accessible markup, and javascript my face off – We Need You Yesterday.

We’re looking for 2 front-end developers (expert in HTML/CSS/Javascript). The contract is for 3 months in the Salt Lake City area and starts immediately. If you’re good, we might just keep you.

Send me an email with your resume and some examples of your work. Now get to it!

craig . hobson @ ldschurch . org

Hacker's delight

For those of you in SLC and not heading to Austin this week, come join us this Thursday at the Stimulate SLC Hack Night. Bring your laptops and sketchbooks and collaborate with a few dozen creative hackers.

Huge disclaimer: Stimulate isn’t affiliated with NT or the LDS Church, but Chris and I organized it.

There’s limited space so get in here. All the info’s at Hulabalub.

Do not pray for tasks equal to ...

"Do not pray for tasks equal to your abilities, but pray for abilities equal to your tasks. Then the performance of your tasks will be no miracle, but you will be the miracle." ~ Love this quote from President Thomas S. Monson. Applies at work, at Church, and at home.

Chiquita went a little bananas ...

Chiquita went a little bananas with their new logo and sticker designs. Thanks to designrelated.com for this post.

We’re hosting a get-together ...

We’re hosting a get-together at SXSW next week on Sunday, March 14th from 6-7 PM. If you’ll be in Austin, we’d love to meet you. We’ll offer a behind-the-scenes look at several applications supporting the LDS Church’s global operations and over 13 million members. The event is invite-only, so please contact us for more information or find one of us for an invitation.

Does that long commute have you...

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Does that long commute have you feeling blue? Park one of these in your garage and make that daily trip more enjoyable.

See more at Martin Jetpack

Great piece of emotional advert...

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Great piece of emotional advertising from the UK.

“Good” beats &ldquo...

"“Good” beats “Innovative” nearly every time. An obsession with innovation leads executives down the wrong path. Just trying to be good would be a smarter focus." ~ Former colleague Scott Berkun in a recent Business Week article. Before objecting, read the whole article; innovation will happen, but not if that is the primary goal. The primary goal should be to produce Something Good. If innovation is required to get there—great! But if there are tried and true solutions, all the better.

I have to admit something stran...

"I have to admit something strange: I’m amused by poorly designed websites. The worse the better. Much like some people “love to hate” movie villains, I get a peculiar satisfaction from finding myself completely lost in an ill-conceived, over-designed, steaming pile of a website. ... I think I have to enjoy it on some level, given my role as a customer experience consultant; otherwise work would be pretty difficult (see also: doctors who can’t stand the sight of blood)." ~ Mark Hurst, noting accurately that customer experience is harder than it looks.

Our resident Professor Dilworth...

Our resident Professor Dilworth has entered the field of fine art prints, setting up shop at his shiny new Fine Art Print Shop.

John’s two series are simply fantastic: his cosmic knot series has a chaotic beauty and intricacy, each representing a different significance of the knot; his geometry and life series feature geometric symbolism as a reflection of life and beauty.

Above, Life Will Never Become Monotonous, starting at just $65. You need this.

Local filmaker Issac Goeckertz ...

Local filmaker Issac Goeckertz will be premiering his latest film at the Worldfest Houston International Film Festival.

Details of the film and the trailer can be viewed on the film’s website.

“Pimp This Bum” details the life changing events of Tim Edwards, a Houston man living on the streets. After being approached by a father son marketing team about a unique charity idea, Tim agreed to participate. The Agreement: fly a cardboard sign at a busy intersection with the words, “All Major Credit Cards Accepted www.pimpthisbum.com”. What erupted from this internet experiment was a media campaign that traveled the globe in the expanse of a few days. Donations came pouring in and within three weeks, $75,000 had been raised to help Tim get off the streets. Pimp this Bum tells the inspiring story of Edward’s life in the wake of this unexpected turn of fortune and his courage to begin a new life.

The latest design for lds.org j...

The latest design for lds.org just went beta. This release represents some long hours, lots of iteration and effort by everyone on the project team and we’d love to hear your feedback.

I.E. Pin Cushion by ChiGarden...

I.E. Pin Cushion by ChiGarden via CurvedWhite.

Complete with do-it-yourself instructions. Enjoy.

Fugitives and Users

A friend of mine hunts down dangerous fugitives for a living.

Bill is a U.S. Marshall and is very good at what he does. A few months ago, I saw him walking with a bandage on his hand. Curious, I asked him what happened. Maybe he cut it doing some yard work? “Well”, he said, ”I had to smash through a car window to pull out a fugitive who tried to escape.” “Really?” I replied, “The worst injuries I get at work are a slight cramp in my pinky from too many mouse clicks.”

Bill and I go to the range every once in a while and shoot the breeze (no pun intended). I enjoy picking his brain as I like the Chuck Norris-esque of his job and am sure he pulls out a roundhouse kick from time to time. I asked him about what helps track these guys down. Without giving detail, he explained the importance of research. Bill spends more time learning about the fugitive, their habits, family, their likes, dislikes, etc… than anything. The more information he has, the easier it is to anticipate their next move.

How many times have you had a client approach you with the need for X as soon as possible and it needs to “look good”? Only after asking them who will be using it and what the site’s objectives are do they even think about it.

The problem is, they want results and research doesn’t come in a shiny package. It is up to us as designers to persuade them to understand its importance… even if that means a roundhouse kick (Disclaimer: Don’t actually roundhouse kick a client, however, if needs be, show a picture of yourself doing a roundhouse kick so they understand).

With that said, Bill could spend all his time researching and never catch anyone if he never went to work. The key is to gather a comfortable amount of user research so we have a clear focus before embarking on our designs.

Just like Bill and his hopeless fugitives, the more we know about our users, the better we can anticipate their next move.

The world needs more UX. Withou...

"The world needs more UX. Without the knitting that UX performs for organizations and their customers, we’ll likely end up with continued wanton proliferation of technology rather than the thoughtful, iterative progress and leaps of innovation that good UX practice nurtures." ~ This one hits home for me today. From Chris Baum in the latest Boxes and Arrows email newsletter. (I looked for a specific link on their site for a specific web page to cite, but couldn’t find one.)

Lying vs. Simplifying - Ready? Fight!

Lying and simplifying aren’t the same. In fact, they’re not even friends-in-law. They’re archenemies. That’s right. Think Batman and The Joker, Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan, Glenn Beck and Rahm Emanuel. As designers, it’s essential that we understand this, because our lives are spent shooting for simplification. But far too often in our quest for UI Zen, we fall into the bottomless pit of lies, lies, lies.

Stockholm Syndrome

Ok, so it’s circa 2002 and I’m watching a new detective show on TV about a guy with OCD. As I ponder how a person can possibly function with so many issues, my mom calls.

“Hi, it’s your mom.”

“Hi Mom.”

“You busy?”

I glance earnestly toward the stream of electrons across the room. “Uh, I guess not.”

“Great, can you help me with a computer thing?”

“Oh, um, sure.”

“Well I just got ‘Word Perfect’ and used it to write a letter to your uncle Jim and now I can’t find it. I think my computer removed it.”

“Oh, well did you look in the recycle bin?”

“Where’s that?”

“It’s on your desktop.”

“On the computer?”

“Yeah. There’s an icon on the desktop called “Recycle Bin.”

“You mean the little picture of the trash can?”

“Yeah, the part of the computer that it sits on is called the ‘Desktop.’” Anyway, double click on the Recycle Bin.”

“Open it up?”

“Yeah.”

“Ok, it’s open.”

“Is anything in there?”

“Yeah, ‘The Internet’ and ‘Setup’ and two little pictures of paper.”

“Ok, does one of those pictures have the name that you gave the letter?”

“I don’t think my letter had a name. It was just a letter I was writing.”

“Mom, why aren’t you using the email I set up for you?”

“I don’t want to use it. It’s too complicated.”

“But I set up an ico… um, one of those little pictures on the desktop for you. All you have to do is open it and click ‘New Message like I showed you.’ I even set up all of your contacts for you. Uncle Jim is in there and everything.”

“I just want help finding the letter I wrote.”

Sigh “Ok, fine… Is ‘Word Perfect’ open now?”

“How do I know that?”

“Well, you know the bar at the bottom of the computer where the ‘Start’ button is?”

“Yeah.”

“Well to the right of it, is there another button on the bar with a picture of a blue circle with a pen in it?”

“No.”

“Is there a button there at all?”

“There’s a picture that looks like a speaker.”

“Huh? No, I mean on the left side of that bar, right next to the ‘Start’ button.”

“What about it?”

“Is there a big button there?”

“Yes.”

“Ok, what does it say?”

“Document one dash Microsoft dot dot dot.”

“Ok, try clicking on that.”

“Oh! There it is! Oh son, you’re so good at this stuff. Thank you!”

“You’re welcome.”

“Ok, goodb… Wait! One more thing. Could you tell me how to get a photo from my new camera into this letter?”

“Oh crap! Mom, I totally forgot I have to go pick up a friend of mine at the airport! Let’s talk later.”

“Ok, well thanks again.”

“Bye.”

Hostage Crisis

At the end of my last article, Erik commented “We’re all suffering from Stockholm Syndrome.” I thought it was a perfect way to describe our relationship with computers.

Those us us who work in tech love our tools with all their complexity. We relish in the fact that we know all the keystrokes for doing every little task in our favorite apps. We are secure in our investment of so much time and energy and effort to learn all the tricks and nuances of our computers.

We fool ourselves by thinking traditional computing is easy.

It isn’t.

Those who malign the Apple iPad for not being more like the computers they’re used to are suffering from a severe case of Stockholm Syndrome.

*Disclaimer: My mother is a smart lady. She has a bachelors from a major university, she’s a leader in her community and now uses computers every day for her job. She’s pretty typical of most non-tech folks I know. And yes, she might read this at some point.

Why has it taken so long for so...

Why has it taken so long for somebody to finally make this?

Hand–le By Naomi Thellier de Poncheville via Curved White

This is a brilliant piece of fu...

This is a brilliant piece of furniture design/art.

via Minimalissimo

Clifton, I found some keychains...

Clifton, I found some keychains that would be perfect for you! :^)

The Power of a UI Framework

I was sitting in a meeting recently with several clients and we were discussing how to create a solution for a business need. You know the scenario. I was trying to extract understanding from the clients so I could design a solution. Have you ever started squirming when one of them goes up to the whiteboard and starts drawing little boxes and circles to create a user interface? Do you get that feeling in your gut that this person is trying to do your job and prescribe what you should create? We designers tend to get testy about that sort of thing. We want to ensure we maintain control of the design so that we can enforce quality. It’s a good desire, but the push and pull of client interaction can be distressing at times.

But for me, this meeting was a breeze. There was a tense discussion between the clients, and the complexity of the business rules they were discussing would make the IRS cower. The paint-like smell of whiteboard markers filled the room and there were scribbles of UI layouts strewn across six whiteboards. Me? I wanted to put my feet on the conference table. Everything was going quite well.

The designer-client interaction was working for me because our project team had established a strong UI framework for our app. As the clients were drawing visual constructs of functionality, they were using our widgets, patterns, and themes. They were comfortable enough with the UI framework that they could rely on it to represent their ideas—it made designing the solution much simpler. It was easier for me to decipher what they were attempting to explain because they were designing with the designers’ paintbrushes.

Trust me on this one. If your app is anything bigger than tiny, take the time to create a framework. Here are some pointers.

Create a separate page in your app that showcases constructs and patterns.

Here is part of ours that describes data table models (filled with dummy data, of course). Imagine that the title for each table was something like “Tables that Need X Functionality” and each would have example data to reinforce its intended use.

Hold your peeps to it.

If you’re collaborating with other designers, it’s critical for everyone to own and honor the frameworks. If you need to create an exception or an entirely new construct, run it by the team and do your best to reduce visual deviation. If you’re a small team, consider a weekly design review. If your team is larger, a daily design scrum may be necessary.

Share the framework with your client.

In time, the app you are building will help your clients recognize your design standards. But putting them all in one place gives them (and you) a library of possibilities. For us, our clients began to appreciate the consistency in the application, and became our allies in enforcing it. They began to crave uniformity in app-wide user interactions.

Just try it. Gosh.

This may just sound like more work and an extra chunk of code to manage, but rest assured that it will serve you well. The bigger your project gets, the more critical a framework is. This will reduce the subjectivity of your design discussions and give you something to hold to when a client wants to get crazy with a particular piece of functionality. This has served us well and I’ll continue to put my trust in UI frameworks.

Love this page layout in the la...

Love this page layout in the latest JCrew catalogue, as featured on Coudal.com and FieldNotesBrand.com.

And I can say too that the Field Notes we got at An Event Apart have held up to the wear and tear of my back pocket better than expected.

Minimalist Movie Posters by Jam...

Minimalist Movie Posters by Jamie Bolton

I love how the essence of each film is boiled down to the simplest graphic statement.

via Minimalissimo

The new trailer for 37 Signals'...

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The new trailer for 37 Signals’ new book Rework. I was hoping he would stuff the guy’s mouth with the paper, but hitting him with it is OK..

When you treat estimates as pro...

"When you treat estimates as promises instead of guesses, you bind your worth as a worker to it. If you do not meet your own deadline, you are a failure. And since nobody likes to be a failure, they’ll indulge in risky behavior to avoid it, like burning the midnight oil and checking in bad code with scanty or no tests." ~ David Heinemeier Hansson, It’s not a promise, it’s a guess

This has to be one of the most ...

This has to be one of the most bizarre and mesmerizing clock screen savers I’ve seen in all my days. I’d try to explain, but it’s something that you have to see to understand. Or not.

Uniqlock

(via Smashing Magazine)

Listed amongst the nominees for...

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Listed amongst the nominees for Best Animated Film is this gem of a movie that I’m now dying to see: The Secret of Kells. Illuminated manuscripts and killer animation, I’m there!

My attempt at making a web site...

My attempt at making a web site look like the logo-plastered walls of any corner store in Guatemala. Also my attempt at Latin Alternative Rock. Listen here.

You may look at the above scree...

You may look at the above screenshot and see a pretty messed up looking site. You might think “wow, that sure isn’t up to the standard of the NorthTemple crew.” But beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

The screenshot is beautiful because it is the start of a new era for us. Look closely at which browser that is. That message is for users of IE6.

For the past year or so we have had the luxury of dropping IE6 for internal projects as our oganization finally made IE7 available. Yes, until December 2008 we were in one of those organizations that everybody hates, that perpetuated the evil that is IE6. We had many off the shelf systems that wouldn’t work with the newer browsers and so were kind of stuck.

But since that glorious day, you can well imagine how much pain, suffering, blood, sweat and tears not having to worry about IE6 has saved us (not to mention tithing dollars).

As of the soft launch of the Youth website pictured above, we are starting to phase out support for IE6 on our public sites as well. That beautiful screenshot above shows the message and site that IE6 users will see.

Alignment is messed up, transparent png files are not transparent, and several other things are broken. But truth be told, I can still navigate around the site and I can still read the content.

I wasn’t involved on this project or the decisions on how it was handled. But I like how they didn’t totally kill the site for IE6. Users get a much less pleasant experience, but they can still get to the content if they choose.

I’m glad that we are starting down the path to help make the internet a better place. I like that Chrome and Firefox are listed above IE7 as replacement browsers. I love that we are joining others in dropping support for IE6.

The Butterfly Circus by Joshua ...

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The Butterfly Circus by Joshua Weigel, Doorpost Film Project 2009 Short Film Contest grand prize winner.

UIs that lie & the users who believe them

Interfaces are one of the principal sources from which a person learns about his or her work. That understanding gets turned into diagrams, charts, and maps that, whether accurate or not, come to define the work that person does each day.

On iPads, Grandmas and Game-changing

The darndest thing happened in the last five days and I was fortunate to be privy to it. Apple has gotten people excited about computing.

But this time, it’s not nerds or geeks and certainly not IT industry analysts. It’s everyone else.

I had a curious set of three conversations this week. One with a grandma, one with a technophobe and the third with a self-proclaimed luddite.

Grandma

My mother-in-law walked in the door the day of the keynote and the first thing out of her mouth was “Did you see that new Apple iPad? That looks like it would work for me. Would that work for me?”

I was utterly flabbergasted. She NEVER talks about computers or technology. She tolerates them at best. Her attitude is typical of most baby boomers I’ve talked to regarding computers. She wants to benefit from them but is frustrated by the wall she must climb in order to do so. She’s learned how to use email and a couple of other things on the Internet and that’s about it.

Her bringing up the iPad was amazing for two reasons. First, someone in her office (she works with other ‘boomers) found out about it within hours of the keynote and shared it with her. That Apple news warranted attention from baby boomers at all is significant. That she then held her interest long enough to tell me at the end of the day is equally significant.

After learning a little more information about it, she has decided that she wants an iPad. It actually borders on technolust.

Technophobe

A good friend of mine is an attorney and reluctantly uses technology for his work. In age, he’s somewhere between my generation and the baby boomers. He recently lost his phone in the snow and then found out his company was moving to AT&T. He replaced his lost phone with a blackberry and when our group of friends caught wind of that, we informed him he could have gotten an iPhone. So on our recommendation, he decided to take the Blackberry back and give the iPhone a try.

I had never once seen him exhibit any excitement over technology but the next time I saw him, he could barely contain his enthusiasm for his new phone.

Fast forward to last Wednesday evening. I told him about the new iPad and his eyes grew wide. He blurted out “Wait, are you talking about an iPhone but with a bigger screen? A regular sized computer THIS easy to use? $15 a month for internet anywhere? When can I buy one?”

He had been won over completely by the user experience of the iPhone. It was amazing to watch and fascinating to see him project his good experience and excitement to the iPad.

Luddite

The third conversation came from a completely unexpected source. I have a good friend and neighbor who works remodeling houses and who reluctantly agreed to have me design a website for his company after being pressured by his family. I don’t know anyone else who hates computers more. He has refused to get an email address. He doesn’t use his mobile phone to do anything other than make a call. And he often mocks me anytime I even mention computers. I want to make it perfectly clear that I’m not exaggerating his attitude. At all.

He stopped by my house the day of the keynote to talk about his new website and when he walked in I happened to have some iPad photos open on my laptop. He asked me what they were about and I casually described the new Apple “tablet” that had just been released. I didn’t spend a lot of time on it considering his historical lack of interest in computers. He asked me a couple of questions and then we discussed his site.

Three days later, he called me and the following exchange ensued. “Dude, I think I want to get one of those Apple tablets for my business.” “Really?” I said. “Yeah, I went and looked at them and they seem really easy to use. I think it would work great for showing potential customers my work and for doing bids on.” I was completely speechless.

The Point

After Apple released the iPhone and when the serious rumors started about the “tablet” a year or so ago I had hoped that this was where Apple was going. I’ve long felt that computers were too hard to use, that the filesystem should NEVER be seen by the user. That human-computer interaction should favor the “human” side.

As the Apple guys stood on stage and described the iPad, I knew I was seeing computer history being made. This new approach to computing and experience is as much a game changer as the ORIGINAL Mac. Heck, it may even be more so.

But honestly, before having these three conversations, I figured Apple’s vision would be realized in ten to fifteen years. Now I’m thinking five or less.

One More Thing

When the date for the announcement was set, I started hoping that Apple would release something like iWork for the “tablet.” I doubted they would so soon but the hope was there. As I figured, if they did, they’d be sending a clear message that this was the future of computing, not just for gaming, watching videos and reading books.

Somehow that message has been lost on people (so many iWork comments end with “meh”), but I consider the release of mobile iWork to be the biggest sign of things to come and the strongest message Apple sent regarding their vision for the future.

It’s amazing to watch all of this unfold.

Check out this post from UX Mag...

Check out this post from UX Magazine about keeping the realism out of UI elements (icons, buttons, etc.). Most user interfaces are not meant to be realistic and should never be, as their primary purpose is to help the end-user complete tasks with as little thinking as possible. Anything more requires additional work for the designer and the user, so why bother?

As I was perusing through my RS...

As I was perusing through my RSS feeds this morning over a bowl of Raisin Bran Crunch – I found the NorthTemple design featured over on Nettuts as one of 35 Wonderful Website Headers.

Hi-5 to Jason!

Go check out the others- there are some gems.

Props to our own Jason Lynes fo...

Props to our own Jason Lynes for his article over at Think Vitamin. Love the idea of conversational URLs and even though I don’t speak Rails I got a good idea of what he did.

Nice work Jason!

Nic found this stellar logo tod...

Nic found this stellar logo today. I love it when logos have multiple visual interpretations that reinforce the brand. Good logos are really difficult to come up with (at least for me) so I respect what they’ve accomplished here.

Source: Brandstack

New Perpetual Education Fund Website

Today we launched an update to the Church’s Perpetual Education Fund website. The new website features selected stories from over 40,000 individuals who have been able to better their lives through education opportunities made available to them through PEF loans.

I used to think that, as a desi...

"I used to think that, as a designer and a somewhat creative person, it was my calling to bring form to things I saw in my mind. In the creative act of making things, people would understand my thoughts and feelings through the work, in perfect translation. We would shape things with our hands based on notions of utility and delight, and provide them to others for repeated physical (and mental) consumption and use. If well-crafted, it would fulfill a clear human need.

“Now, I feel quite different. The act of form-giving is not a means to a clear end. Our senses continually map and remap in reaction to the elements that order our physical world, harmonizing those perceptions with the world we construct in our minds. Neither is more precise than the other, or ‘real’ in any standard sense of the word. Physical form and thought of form, messy, human interplay: yin and yang." ~ From The Blind Man and the Cheeseburger, by David Sherwin

Some useful design tips for com...

Some useful design tips for comparison shopping interfaces from Get Elastic. Brings me back to my Carpoint days at Microsoft… It’s tough to put a lot of data across multiple products into tight columns, but it can be done well. Have you seen some good examples?

While researching for a current...

While researching for a current project, I came across a vintage folio on Human Factors in design by Henry Dreyfuss. The book contains a collection of charts and graphics developed to provide anthropometric data for the aid of the industrial designer in creating products.

A forward to the collection contains the following creed which provides a great lesson in how to determine the success of design.

“We bear in mind that the object being worked on is going to be ridden in, sat upon, looked at, talked into, activated, operated, or in some other way used by people.
When the point of contact between the product and the people becomes a point of friction, then the industrial designer has failed.
On the other hand, if people are made safe, more efficient, more comfortable—or just plain happier—by contact with the product, then the designer has succeeded.”

I also liked the fact that the aim of the book was actually about human factors, how people are. It seems that many books on the subject today are not about people, they are about how machines should be.

I appears that there is an updated version of the same text available with updated and additional charts.

Alt Design Summit & Guide to SLC

Somehow this eluded quite a few of us over here, but this weekend is the Altitude Design Summit in Salt Lake City (disclaimer: links to Hulabalub, a site I made). Alt is bringing together a ton of designy bloggers and enthusiasts to talk shop and style. This week, Thursday and Friday, but note that online registration is now closed, with only a handful of walk-up spots available.

Alt’s Twitter pointed us to Design*Sponge’s guide to Salt Lake City, which proves a good guide to many places we love and a handful I haven’t seen yet. Worth a look..

Sculpture at the Martin Luther ...

Sculpture at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Park in Seattle. Re-posted from last year, in honor of the holiday and the man.
When we lived in Seattle, we would usually go to this park on Martin Luther King Day to honor this great man and talk to our kids about what he stood for. I Have Dream must stand as one of the greatest and most inspiring speeches ever.

Web accessibility is designing ...

"Web accessibility is designing the Web so that people can use it, specifically people with disabilities. In our Introduction to Web Accessibility, we say: Web accessibility means that people with disabilities can perceive, understand, navigate, and interact with the Web, and that they can contribute to the Web." ~ Excerpt from a must-read interview with accessibility evangelist and W3C/WAI member, Shawn Henry (@shawn_slh).

Funnel Wall in Dresden, via Sco...

Funnel Wall in Dresden, via Scott Berkun. When it rains, it pours music! Fun design concept, but I’m glad I don’t live in the neighborhood.

Usability is like cooking: ever...

"Usability is like cooking: everybody needs the results, anybody can do it reasonably well with a bit of training, and yet it takes a master to produce a gourmet outcome." ~ Jakob Nielsen, effectively treading the fine line between easing fears of Big Usability and talking people out of hiring his firm. From a good article on striking the right balance on usability.

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ATTENTION

Hacker's delight

Do not pray for tasks equal to ...

Chiquita went a little bananas ...

We’re hosting a get-together ...

Does that long commute have you...

Great piece of emotional advert...

“Good” beats &ldquo...

I have to admit something stran...

Our resident Professor Dilworth...

Local filmaker Issac Goeckertz ...

The latest design for lds.org j...

*I.E. Pin Cushion* by ChiGarden...

Fugitives and Users

The world needs more UX. Withou...

Lying vs. Simplifying - Ready? Fight!

Stockholm Syndrome

Hostage Crisis

Why has it taken so long for so...

This is a brilliant piece of fu...

Clifton, I found some keychains...

The Power of a UI Framework

Create a separate page in your app that showcases constructs and patterns.

Hold your peeps to it.

Share the framework with your client.

Just try it. Gosh.

Love this page layout in the la...

Minimalist Movie Posters by Jam...

The new trailer for 37 Signals'...

When you treat estimates as pro...

This has to be one of the most ...

Listed amongst the nominees for...

My attempt at making a web site...

You may look at the above scree...

The Butterfly Circus by Joshua ...

UIs that lie & the users who believe them

On iPads, Grandmas and Game-changing

Grandma

Technophobe

Luddite

The Point

One More Thing

Check out this post from UX Mag...

As I was perusing through my RS...

Props to our own Jason Lynes fo...

Nic found this stellar logo tod...

New Perpetual Education Fund Website

I used to think that, as a desi...

Some useful design tips for com...

While researching for a current...

Alt Design Summit & Guide to SLC

Sculpture at the Martin Luther ...

Web accessibility is designing ...

Funnel Wall in Dresden, via Sco...

Usability is like cooking: ever...

I.E. Pin Cushion by ChiGarden...