Students are multitaskers who move through websites rapidly, often missing the item they come to find. They’re enraptured by social media but reserve it for private conversations and thus visit company sites from search engines.

..HEY WAIT! WOAH! NO-ONE’S TOUCHING PHOTOSHOP OR DOING ANY CSS FANCYWORK UNTIL I’M DONE WITH YOU!..

Freelance development- chances are you’ve done some at one time or another. Be it as your day to day job or a few hours on the side, most developers at some point in their career have dipped their fingers into this particular honey pot…

Apps for iPad/iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Nokia, Windows Phone, Palm, etc… it’s really amazing to see so many designers and developers working to create great experiences on mobile devices.

Analysis is a crucial part of any design process. Without it, it’s impossible to know if the right problem is being solved and if it is being solved in the right way…

Choosing which content to serve to your mobile website requires a good understanding of your users and the devices they use…

When people are visiting your site, do you know what they are looking for? Is it obvious to your visitors what you want to promote? …

Nobody needs to convince you that it’s important to test your website’s design and interaction with the people who will use it, right? But if that’s all you do, you’re missing out on feedback about the most important part of your site: the content…

The subject of design education, UX careers, and mentoring has been on my mind a lot lately. It wasn’t long ago that I was looking for UX job…

PR agencies, full service media agencies, social media pure plays, search agencies and client-side teams are all staking claim to social media monitoring, but who should really be responsible for it?

MIT Usability Guidelines

Design it. Get your hands dirty. Make sketches, push pixels, build prototypes and create experiences. Just do it. Forget your title…

..In UX workshops early on in a project’s life, sketching is a useful and efficient way to convey and record ideas. It’s disposable and inexpensive, but needn’t look amateur.

…there are plenty of ways we can build up our confidence so that we may show ourselves off as professionals and to our full potential.

Although not a new phenomenon, media queries seem to be getting a lot attention online recently and for the right reasons too – it’s great to be able to adapt a design with just a few lines of CSS – but many people are relying only on them to create an iPhone-specific version of their website…

Design is the art of gradually applying constraints until only one solution remains. To get there usually takes me a few iterations. Here’s how it typically goes…

Freemium business models seem to be gaining in popularity and rapidly becoming a dominant factor in the success of Web startups

…By minimizing the friction associated with signing up for a new account and making it easy for people to bring their friends with them, we’ve seen that people are more likely to complete the sign up process, stay on sites longer, share more content, and come back more often….

“Interaction Design” refers to the shaping of interactive products and services with a specific focus on their use.

…So the front-end matters and this is where the time is spent. For best ROI this is where you should be focusing – improving the front-end performance.

What Is a Styleguide? Documents that explain how a brand is constructed, often using examples of how to use—and how not to use—the various brand assets they’ve created.

Best practices for mobile web application released by W3C

This month Jon Kolko’s newest book ‘Exposing the Magic of Design’ will be released. It focuses on design synthesis: a way of thinking about complicated, multifaceted problems of this scale with a repeatable degree of success…

…the goal here is get you acquainted with some techniques for optimizing on mobile, particularly for higher-end smart phones or devices running iOS, Android, and even webOS.

…Putting each function to the test using personas before letting it in the door is very helpful. Then giving features relative priority using the number and importance of personas who are using them helps guides the overall application or site’s design priorities…

Many people don’t see the importance of gathering the necessary explanatory documents that define what you did all throughout your project development…

If you don’t live in a cave you’ve probably noticed that there is presently a really a big mobile boom. So it should also be no surprise that a lot of frameworks are popping up to fill this field and make mobile coding less painful.

Creating online experiences requires us to communicate both effectively and efficiently. Standing in our way, though, are plenty of deterrents (screen resolutions, rendering engines, media platforms, plugins, etc.), each of which is dealt with a thorough understanding of our craft. But while some factors are obviously under our control, plenty of others are not.