25 User Experience Videos That Are Worth Your Time

Usabilla
Remote usability testing

Form Design Inspiration

Site Search Best Practices
Louis Rosenfeld offers 13 site search design principles.

8 Best Practices for Mobile Site Design

101 Things I Learned in Interaction Design School
A promising new blog consisting of easy to digest bits of info.

Complete Beginner’s Guide to Interaction Design
A very decent intro to IxD. For a more in depth treatment, read A Project Guide to UX Design.

Don Norman in Interactions Magazine

A systems analysis goes beyond the design of individual screens or actions. It considers the entire experience from start to finish: thought through action through reflection. To make this a whole, seamless, coherent experience requires considering each action, each system response, each message – whether verbal or visual, silent or audible, visceral or behavioral, haptic or happenstance – all as part of the whole. Make sure that each message is consistent with the others in tone, voice, locus, and message. All steps must be readily accommodated, with the system always anticipating and ready for whichever choice the person makes. This is what it means to be a system: to think of everything.

Usability Testing Versus Expert Reviews
Under what circumstances is it more appropriate to do usability testing versus an expert review? What are the benefits and weaknesses of each method that make one or the other more appropriate in different situations?

Negative space in logo design
Nice examples, including the ones below:

American Institute of Architects Center

Egg and Spoon

Guild of Food Writers

What design researchers can learn from hostage negotiators
“In essence, both parties are attempting to establish a relationship, both are trying to keep the communication flowing, and most importantly, both are trying to extract valuable data.”

Murals for the Library Initiative

And check out the identity for the Library Initiative.

Log in or sign up?
Fodder for facilitating library card sign ups.

How to Write a Mission Statement That Isn’t Dumb
What’s is your “big hairy audacious goal”?

http://trentwalton.com
This blog’s information architecture is a little confusing but we are in love with its visual design.

Active Furniture is inconvenient on purpose. Reminds me of one of the times I heard someone say that they didn’t want their library’s furniture to be “too comfortable.”

10/GUI is an attempt to move away from the mouse, into realistic multi-touch computing. Don’t forget, somebody (Douglas Engelbart) had to invent the mouse too.

10/GUI from C. Miller on Vimeo.

⌘ Grid aligned webpages using firebug & gridfox.

⌘ Mark Boulton’s classic Five Simple Steps to Designing Grid Systems.