Consider the User Experience & Usability of Your Website – from the Mom 2.0 Summit

by angela on February 26, 2010

in UX & Usability Tools, Usability, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), Web Design & Development

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Last week I had the honor to be a speaker at the Mom 2.0 Summit. The conference was fabulous – great ladies who were kind and supportive of each other, nice panels where everyone shared experiences, and the hotel – Wow! Four Seasons all the way!

Here’s the slideshow we used to get the discussion rolling. We tried to keep everything pretty positive and not bag on anyone. Thanks to my co-presenter Sania for putting it together. (She’s great, isn’t she?)

Consider User Experience (UX) @ Mom 2.0 Summit
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I didn’t anticipate having more than 50 people in our presentation, so I was surprised to run out of the handouts we shared with everyone. If you missed the handout, you can download it here:

Consider the User Experience & Usability of Your Website: 20 Do’s and 14 Automatic Fails.

Thanks to Marla, Carrie, & Laura for all their hard work putting together the conference! See you next year in New Orleans!

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UX Patterns Resources

by angela on February 26, 2010

in Information Design, UX & Usability Tools, User Experience (UX), Web Design & Development, Wireframes

Ran across a few great design patterns resources this week that I want to share with everyone.  They give me something to refer to when I’m doing wireframes, and sometimes I share them with clients when we’re trying to determine how to display content that’ll be most pleasing to their audience.  Please enjoy!

From the “Designing Web Interfaces” Blog

And! Save your favorite patterns to refer to again and again with Pattern Tap.

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Mom 2.0 Summit

18 February 2010

Angela Randall, President of Normal Modes, will appear at the Mom 2.0 Summit on Friday, 19 February 2010. She will speak in the 1:15-2:15 PM breakout session, Product Track: Consider the User Experience & Usability of Your Website, about User Experience (UX).

The event will be at:
Four Seasons Downtown Houston > Google Map
1300 Lamar Street
Houston, [...]

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This Week in UX: Jan. 4-8 (Think Like a Website Edition)

8 January 2010

Gosh, this week has just flow by, and at the same time it feels like about a million years since the holidays ended. We’re quite blessed to have a fast start in the New Year. Happy 2010!
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Our first item is best summed up with it’s executive summary:
Usability is like cooking: everybody needs the results, [...]

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This Week in UX: Dec. 28-Jan 1 (Welcome 2010!)

4 January 2010

11 Best practices for doing Software Usability testing – I agree with most of what’s said, EXCEPT – or perhaps with a caveat – that you don’t need to record these sessions. I love watching live usability tests. Watching video of usability testing is second only to watching paint dry, but it’s often necessary to [...]

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How We Started Normal Modes: Moving On to A New Work Lifestyle

31 December 2009

On December 23, 2009, Normal Modes officially celebrated our 6 month anniversary. We want to mark this important milestone by sharing a few lessons we’ve learned over the course of the past 6 months, as well as share a few wonderful resources that helped us out along the way. Today’s post, the first in [...]

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