We can no longer ask users to think like machines just to be able to use software. This talk explores diverse areas of non-digital human experience – including language and theater, neurology and sociology – in order to frame and showcase some of the most exciting current and emerging user experience design practices, both on the web and in other media such as video games and the arts. The objective is quite simply to inspire designers to humanize their interfaces [...]

Plurk’s Design Lead Alvin Woon Design compares and contrasts the differences of designing a web application, not a promotion/marketing website, then recommends some techniques [...]

Design lessons learned in the trenches is a (semi-organized) brain dump of current design challenges, presented by Daniel Burka at the Future of Web Apps 2009 in Miami [...]

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Alvin Woon is the UI lead for Plurk, a social network with a focus on short messages. His primary work is focused on designing user interface and leading aspects of usability research. Watch Alvin Woon’s ‘The future of social app interface design‘ at the Future of Web Apps London 2008…

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