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UXBooth

The UX Booth is a collective of articles and resources written by and for the User Experience community. Managed by its founders: David Leggett, Andrew Maier, and Matthew Kammerer, the blog has quickly grown to over 10,000 active participants.The articles published on the UX Booth reach a wide demographic: from practicing professionals to curious novices — all are welcome. Topics covered range from universal subjects, such as visual design, to more esoteric subjects such as usability and human-computer interaction.

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Selling UX to Small Business

Selling UX to Small Business

It’s 2010 and everyone loves usability, right? It may may look that way from our comfortable perches atop the blogosphere, but if you’ve tried to sell usability services to small businesses, you know that it can be a frustrating and time-consuming experience. Illustration provided by Rachel NaborsUsability has come ...

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15 Desktop and Online Wireframing Tools

15 Desktop and Online Wireframing Tools

Like most things today, the world of interaction design moves quickly. Although a pen and notebook may suffice when it comes to simply jotting down ideas, planning a series of website screens can sometimes demand additional precision and cohesion.This is where today’s wireframing tools come in. Engineered to make the ...

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43 Essential Controls for Web Applications

43 Essential Controls for Web Applications

Designing a web application? Familiarize yourself with Rich Internet Application technologies and the best UI controls for creating your application.Rich Internet Application technology has empowered us to create really amazing user experiences. The best RIAs on the web today rely on a discreet set of UI controls to provide a ...

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The User Centered Design Conundrum

The User Centered Design Conundrum

When I mention design research to clients unfamiliar with user–centered design, I am often confronted with a blank stare. At first, I thought that I simply might be doing it wrong: selecting the wrong kinds of clients with which to work, or associating myself with the wrong kind of companies—but ...

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Information Gathering: a Roundup of UX Applications

Information Gathering: a Roundup of UX Applications

The number of applications available for User Experience professionals is ever-expanding; much of this growth happening over the last year! As a consequence, experts are increasingly turning to novel tools in order to collect data and generate reports regards their websites. While some UX designers suggest that local testing is ...

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Telling Your Website’s Story with Sketchboarding

Telling Your Website’s Story with Sketchboarding

There’s been quite a lot of discussion recently on blogs that cover user experience, with some very unique vantage points. The overarching question: What methods drive the solutions that we present to our clients?On many projects to which design, development, and UX teams are assigned, the scope is myopic: project ...

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Improve Conversions by Connecting with your Audience

Improve Conversions by Connecting with your Audience

Lots of people design sites based on what they would like to see. However, what makes sense to a designer may not make sense to their target audience. If designers seek to create a conversion-friendly web experience we’re going to have to learn about our audience and what makes them ...

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Q & A with the Speakers from UX London

Q & A with the Speakers from UX London

Sometimes it’s important to take a step back from reading articles related to user experience and listen to the stories told by those at the forefront of our discipline. So to that end, we sent out a few questions to the speakers of the UX London conference asking them a ...

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A Brief History of Eye-Tracking

A Brief History of Eye-Tracking

Eye tracking may be a trendy topic in this day and age, but its roots go way back.Ever notice how some websites seem to just flow, while others feel harder to navigate? There are many contributing factors in building usable web sites and applications, but one of the most interesting ...

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Mashable redesign: what draws attention?

Mashable redesign: what draws attention?

Click-heat maps show user response to page areas.Mashable made a fresh start of the new year by launching a redesign. The intention of which was to put more focus on the stories, remove clutter, and to divide the content into sections (Home, Social Media,  Mobile, Web Video, Entertainment, Business, Tech, ...

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24 UX Articles to Start 2010

24 UX Articles to Start 2010

We’ve just begun a year and already I have been overwhelmed with the amazing UX articles, websites, and projects that have cropped up over the past few weeks. It is exciting to see the growth in this upcoming field.Today we’ve gathered some of the best of the UX-related web that ...

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Ambient User Experience

Ambient User Experience

How do you perceive Walmart’s ambience?Next time you go into a department store, look for a couple of things: signposts (detailing where items are located throughout the store), cashiers (ready to assist you should you have any questions), and musaq (that oh-so-good, yet oh-so-bad “elevator music”). Do you think ...

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