Recent Posts
- Internet in China: Internet population hit 384 million in 2009
- Watch Barry Schwartz’s “The Paradox of Choice” talk at TED
- Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-02-07
- Gaming in China: Sales of online gaming industry hit 4 billion US dollars in 2009
- Watch Tim Brown urge designers to think big at TED
- China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: Shanghai’s sky-high priced luxurious house unveiled
- Media in China: 174 Million Cable TV Subscribers In 2009
Most Popular Articles
- Look Into the Future with Autodesk Labs: Multi touch wall
- Internet in China: What Do Chinese Internet Users Do Online?
- China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior: In a Tidal Shift, Chinese Spending More Overseas
- China, Socialism & Consumer Behavior
- Finance industry employees in China top salary rankings
- Autodesk Makes "BusinessWeek 50", A Ranking of the Best Performers in S&P 500 Index
- Chinese Calligraphy: Master Yue Le
Most Popular Topics
education energy IxDA artist designer microsoft Hong Kong Internet In China Report consumer behavior architect BIM Europe trends Creative Process TED conference sustainability Financial Crisis innovation Autodesk Mobile Phones animation New York Game Interaction Design China design Statistics United States Chinese Government twitter Shanghai Chinese People Internet use Shanghai Daily economics Infrastructure behavior environment sustainable entertainment Yuan Xinhua architecture Living In Shanghai Asia Internet Users revenue Brazil Beijing internet information technology japan software google Living In China
Tag Archives: user experience
Listen to Jeff Dachis’ “User Experience as a Crucial Driver of Social Business Design” talk at IDEA 2009
Everything that can be digital will be. Why? Because it’s faster, better, and cheaper. UX in the digital world will be the key definer of value. UX design now means to embrace a whole new set of behaviors and characteristics. Social Business Design is a framework to understand and think about the multi-faceted users and the way they participates inside a business ecosystem in meaningful ways [...]
Posted in design, information technology, trends Also tagged Boxes and Arrows, CNBC, CNN, current CEO, design, Entrepreneur, information architecture, information technology, Interaction Design, Jeff Dachis, leadership, microsoft, New York, producer, Razorfish, speaker, United States, USD, User experience design, user research Leave a comment
[EVENT] IxDA Shanghai presents “Selling UX in Organizations” with Daniel Szuc: DECEMBER 11th, 2009, 6:30PM
At some point in your career, you’ll be called upon to sell UX to someone in your organization. You’ve probably already done it. Perhaps you’ll need to justify what you do in an organization or industry that’s just beginning to adopt UX methods or sell UX to secure your position within an organization or get future projects. So, what do you need to know to help you sell UX? What challenges might you face?
Listen to Luke Wroblewski’s “Impact of Social Models” talk at IDEA 2009
As Richard Farson’s truism “no one smokes in church no matter how addicted” points out, context informs almost everything that happens in an environment. Online social experiences are no exception. How a product’s social model is set up can impact not only who contributes, but how much, and why. From permission-based subscriptions to one-click follows, Luke will discuss the attributes and implications of several popular social models by looking at data and behavior in the Web’s most popular social applications [...]
Posted in design, information technology, trends Also tagged Boxes and Arrows, Human-computer interaction, information architecture, Interaction Design, Interaction Design Association, internet, IxDA, Luke Wroblewski, Richard Farson, social applications, Social Networks, speaker, User experience design, Web Design, World Wide Web, Yahoo Leave a comment
Watch Moshe Safdie’s “What makes a Building unique?” talk at TED
Looking back over his long career, architect Moshe Safdie delves into four of his design projects and explains how he labored to make each one truly unique for its site and its users [...]
Posted in design, innovation Also tagged architect, architecture, canada, Children's Memorial, Construction, Creative Process, Crystal Bridges Museum, Holocaust museum, Israel, Jerusalem, Montreal, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Moshe Safdie, National Gallery, Ontario, Ottawa, Peabody Essex Museum, TED conference, Tel Aviv, United States, Vancouver Public Library, Yad Vashem Leave a comment
Watch Jason Beres’ “Building Better User Interfaces” talk at DevDays 2009 The Netherlands
A great user experience starts with the user interface. In this talk, Jason Beres explores best practices in user interface design in a learn-by-example approach of the good, bad and the ugly in user interface design. From web sites to rich client, you will learn how areas such as navigation, layout, typography, controls and dialogs can make or break the usefulness of an application [...]
Posted in design, information technology, innovation, software Also tagged Den Haag, Interaction Design, interface, Jason Beres, Microsoft Windows, product manager, The Netherlands, typography, Windows Presentation Foundation, WPF 1 Comment
Listen to Christina Wodtke’s “Business-Centered Design” talk at IA Summit 2009
In this talk, Christina Wodtke, founder of Boxes and Arrows and product developer at LinkedIn, walks through the most common business models, the desired user behavior that supports them, and how those business models affect the architecture of the website including features and functionality [...]
Listen to Joe Sokohl’s “A Real Nowhere Man: Managing Remote Teams Remotely” talk at IA Summit 2009
Not only do we work with people across the hall, across town, and across the country, but we also work with people we never meet from countries we know about only through Wikipedia or the Travel Channel. UX Lead for PracticeWorks, Joe Sokohl discusses principles to live by when managing teams remotely including: communication, flexibility, sensitivity, courage, and the best tool of all, empathy [...]
Posted in design, information technology Also tagged Boxes and Arrows, collaboration, IA summit 2009, information architecture, Interaction Design, Joe Sokohl Leave a comment
Autodesk 3ds Max wins Game Developer Award for “Best Art Tool” of 2009