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Right Frequency: October 10-15

Good things happening around the interwebs:

Adaptive Path starting posting their UX Week 2011 Videos. Great idea and they’re free! (What’s not to like?)

UPA just wrapped up the 2011 UPA Salary Survey. We’re on pins and needles until we find out if we… read more

How to Think Like (and Design for) Your Customer: User Experience Fundamentals Workshop

Registration begins today for our November 10-11 UX strategy and design fundamentals workshop featuring Ken Penny and Angela Schmeidel Randall. Register before October 15 and get $200 off the price of registration.

You, too, can plan, design and develop websites and applications that fit your organizational objectives and technical capabilities… read more

You’ve got opinions. We’ve got gift cards. (Plus, a giveaway!)

Call for User Research Participants like You.

At Normal Modes, we believe people like you have opinions that are worthy of compensation. Any chance you’d consider joining our national database of usability testing participants? It’s easy: You tell us what you think of a website or software application, and we give you cash or… read more

Three great articles cover what you should know about personas

The foundation of creating an appropriate user experience is identifying the person who will be using your product. The product could be a website, the branding and marketing utilized to create a call to action, or simply the person to whom you wish to communicate.

We found three extremely helpful… read more

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

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… read more

UX Patterns Resources

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… read more