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*Usability Dark Patterns: Black Hat, Anti-Usability Design Patterns
Submitted by matt 23 days ago (more from darkpatterns.org)This pattern library is dedicated to Dark Patterns: user interfaces that have been designed to trick users into doing things they wouldn’t otherwise have done. Dark Patterns are different – they are not mistakes, they are carefully crafted with a solid understanding of human psychology, and they do not have the user’s interests in mind.
*Design Endeca User Interface Design Pattern Library
Submitted by matt 45 days ago (more from patterns.endeca.com)Describes principled ways to solve common user interface design problems related to search, faceted navigation, and discovery. The patterns are offered as proposed sets of design guidelines based on our research and design experience as well as lessons learned from the information search and discovery community
*Design Pattern App
Submitted by matt 45 days ago (more from patternapp.com)A resource for everyone who needs to design or develop user interfaces. It is a collection of Web design patterns, best practices, which helps you to find inspiration and design interfaces with great user experience. It is also a user interface gallery full of real world examples of our patterns.
*Usability The Psychologist’s View of UX Design
Submitted by matt 112 days ago (more from uxmag.com)A visual designer approaches UX design from one point of view, the interaction designer from another, and the programmer from yet another. It can be helpful to understand and even experience the part that others are experiencing. I take research and knowledge about the brain, the visual system, memory, and motivation and extrapolate UX design principles from that.
*Usability Guiding Principles for UX Designers
Submitted by matt 183 days ago (more from uxmag.com)I have collected a set of guiding principles for user experience designers, to encourage behaviors that I believe are necessary to being a successful practitioner, as well as a set of guiding principles for experience design—which I think anyone who touches a product used by humans should strive to follow.
*Design Showcase of Great Web App Interfaces
Submitted by matt 197 days ago (more from webdesignerdepot.com)A great compilation of beautiful web application interfaces. The web applications that were selected to be part of this showcase are based on usability, simplicity, colors and overall layout.
*Design RIA Screen Layouts
Submitted by matt 210 days ago (more from slideshare.net)15 Standard Screen Layouts with examples from 80+ current RIAs. Contains layouts for master/detail, palette/canvas, column browse, dashboard, question/answer, spreadsheet, parallel panels, wizard, interactive model, tabs, tabbed interface, forms, search/results, refine data, portal and browse.
*Tech News Mozilla Labs Design Challenge: The Home Tab
Submitted by matt 255 days ago (more from design-challenge.mozillalabs.com)What are some interesting uses of a Firefox-hosted start page? This page will have access to a lot more of the user's information since it never leaves the browser — history, add-ons, bookmarks, and pretty much anything you can see in Firefox at the moment. This opens up a lot of possibilities, and we'd like to see what you can do with this new-found superpower. Deadline is February 14th, 2010.
*Usability 24 Usability Testing Tools
Submitted by matt 266 days ago (more from usefulusability.com)From recruiting real users (with tools such as Ethnio) to conducting live one on one remote moderated tests (UserVue) to analyzing results of usability changes using A/B testing (Google Website Optimizer), there is a plethora of useful and usable tools to conduct usability testing.
*Design Principles Of Effective Search In E-Commerce Design
Submitted by matt 275 days ago (more from smashingmagazine.com)Well-devised advanced search offers several benefits and can be more than just a clumsy, complicated tool. Effective search can accelerate the sales process because you will not be losing customers who give up trying to find products. In this article, we will review how to build an interface that offers users the power of advanced search while preserving the clarity of simple search.