Jared Spool and UIE test the three-click rule

“Users weren’t any more satisfied with shorter clickstreams than they were with longer clickstreams. The satisfaction of users doesn’t depend on the number of clicks.”

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IDEA Conference Blog - Audio and some slides

Awesome! Plenty to dig into here. The IDEA conference descibes itself as “a conference on designing complex information spaces of all kinds.”

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Baseball meets Interaction Design

From AIGA’s IxD education publication “Loop”. Interesting to compare flows generated by each of the teams. It would be worthwhile to spend some time studying the visual and structural traits of the simpler, clearer solutions.

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2004 Salary Survey for User Experience Design and Usability Professionals

A look at the influence of location, education, primary duties (interaction design vs user experience design/management vs interface design etc) and years experience on salary.

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Best Practices for PBS member stations

PBS materials for its member stations explaining effective and useable website design and strategy.

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Designing for User Experience - Frameworks and Project Stories

UX Week Presentation by Marc Rettig, Aradhana Goel

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Adaptive Path || User Experience Week Wiki

Some session notes scattered here and there…

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“The Elements of User Experience”

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“How to apply for IA jobs”

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Site of John Weir, designer/architect of the IHT news site

Great explanation detailing the process he went through in creating the new IHT layout and functionality. Very original features - clips, multi column no-scroll story presentation. Lives in Berkeley.

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Adaptation, Personalisation and ‘Self-Centred’ Design

Discusses the relationship between adaptive design, people-centred design, social software and design research.

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On personal information architecture

There is a gulf between personal and group infoarch. What tools do we have to bridge the gap?

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Adaptive Path’s reading list

I’m especially interested in the title “Contextual Design” by Hugh Beyer and Karen Holzblatt.

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Facets of user experience design

A Lou Rosenfeld post that links to a diagram showing the many facets of User Experience design.

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AskMe thread on getting a job in Information Architecture

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Shedroff’s article on a “Unified Field Theory of Design”

One theory to rule all the disciplines. UX/ID/IA/Usability. Some good stuff in here.

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