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Archive for January, 2010

Our Bookmarks: Jan 18 – Jan 24, 2010

Creative & Technical Development

Listen Before You Spend A Billion Dollars (A Customer Experience Lesson) by Good Experience
What Have We Forgotten About UX? by O’Reilly Media
Embedding UX In The Product Development Lifecycle by UX Matters
Unmoderated Usability Testing by UX Matters
SXSW Interactive ’09:Wireframes For The Wicked by Slideshare
In Defense Of Lorem Ipsum by Karen McGrane
It’s Time For Content Strategy by Scroll Magazine
Case Study: Continuous Deployment by Lessons Learned

Our Bookmarks: Jan 11 – Jan 17, 2010

The Week That Was In Links

Creative & Technical Development

The Bridge Between Cultures & Design by Johnny Holland Magazine
Content Management Strategy, How To Develop The Other CMS by Design Crux
Always Be Testing: 8 Services For Usability Feedback by ReadWriteWeb

Twitter Picture goes live

Johanna Basford’s latest Twitter Picture project has just gone live.

Over a 24 hour period (9 AM Thursday 14th – 9AM Friday 15th) Johanna will be creating a hand-drawn interactive illustration inspired by Twitter. Tweeters are invited to send her one suggestion each in 140 characters or less which she will incorporate into a super sized, hand drawn illustration.

Our Bookmarks: Jan 4 – Jan 10, 2010

The Week That Was In Links

Creative & Technical Development

Doing It Wrong by Tim Bray
Design For Relevance by DMI Publications
25-point Website Usability Checklist by User Effect
Guide To Low-Cost Usability Tools by User Effect
Product Review: Justinmind Prototyper by UX Matters
Should UX Designers Know Design Or Programming by Usability Counts
10 Best Intranets Of 2010 by Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox

Browser Size: A new tool from Google Labs

Google Labs recently released a new tool called Browser Size which provides a visualisation of what a user is likely to see given the screen size of their browser when they visit your website.

For example, in the screenshot, the 90% contour means that 90% of people visiting our website have their browser window open to at least this size or larger.