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

10 Essential Books for Learning About User Experience & Usability

There are a lot of folks out there trying to make the leap from a traditional development model, to a model that incorporates the user experience into the development lifecycle.  We hear from everyone from well-respected Fortune 500 companies struggling with how to turn the ship around to smaller organizations… read more

Usability in Electronic Medical Records

A good friend sent me a post, Looking For a Game-Changer in Electronic Medical Records, from The Wall Street Journal‘s health blog. The gist of the article was this: Electronic Medical Records (EMR) don’t necessarily “boost hospital quality measures.” In other words, EMRs don’t always mean more productive doctors and… read more

Failing Gracefully: Four Solutions for Wrong Registration Email Addresses on Alltop.com

I type wicked fast. My fingers sometimes bang away at the keys at a rate faster than I can think.  But for all my mad typing skizzles, I’m a horrible speller.  And for all my speed, I’m hampered by habitual use of the delete/backspace key.  I’ve used it probably seven… read more

Usability – The Delayed Frontier

People want less information, they don’t want more information. They want it to be easier for them to use. Easier for them to get what they want. Easier for them to do what they want to do. The next big breakthrough, in my mind, is going to come from the

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It’s about the user experience.

There is, of course, a certain measure of humility required for designers to open themselves to incorporating the user experience into the design process and to engage in usability testing. For so many years the predominant culture in these groups was that web design was a “creative” art, and as

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