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2012

January

• You Might Make a Great UX Designer At Viget If…

2011

December

• Reframing UX: It’s About Designing Products

October

• User Interview Tips for Non-UX Designers

August

• Omnigraffle Stencil for Clickable Form Elements

July

• Running Online Divide-the-Dollar Studies using WebSort

May

• Skipping the Wireframes: How to Go Straight From Sketches to Design

April

• Don’t simplify the UX, curate!

• 5 Ways to Get Past UX Designer’s Block

February

• 3 Tactics for Improving Wireframe Presentations

• How to Create Prototypes With Omnigraffle

2010

December

• Cage Match: UX vs. SEO

November

• Improve your site maps with page archetypes

• UX 101: The Site Map

August

• Wireframe Checklist

• 10 Omnigraffle tips you might not know (plus one bonus!)

July

• UX 101: The Wireframe

June

• Using Remember the Milk as a Capture and Coding Tool

• Plan a Content Strategy and Go Places

May

• How to Make Master Objects in Omnigraffle

April

• Using VoiceOver for Low-Cost Accessibility Testing

March

• 3 Strategies to Make Your App Easier to Use

• 3D on the Web

February

• The 3 Rules to Breaking Up

• Evolution not Revolution

2009

November

• Five Major Identity Schemes, and How to Decide

September

• Closing the feedback loop with a little help from your friends

• Agile 2009

August

• Designing for Politeness

• Breaking Down the Process: TapMetrics.com

July

• Lessons from Thomas Vander Wal: Reputation and Social Comfort

• Workshop: Social Design for the Enterprise

June

• Waxing Speculative about Amazon’s Business Model

• The Shackles of Simplicity

• Geo: Soon to be Legit

May

• Managing Wireframes More Effectively in OmniGraffle

• Testing Web Text Readability

• Sketching in the Kickoff Meeting

• The Line Length Misconception

• Prototyping with Production Purposes in Mind

April

• An Open Letter to Third-Party Twitter App Founders

• IA Summit 2009

• ‘Tis the (Tax) Season

March

• Sure, Those Colors Look Nice - But Can You Prove They’ll Work?

• Confirming Passwords Is Annoying: Is There a Better Way?

• Embracing the Curve

February

• A Few User Experiences in Banking

• A UX Reading List

• Let Your “Regulars” Do Your Work

2008

December

• Customer Service With a Smile (For Real)

• Creating a Feedback Loop for Users

• Google Gives Back - Services and Grants for Nonprofits

November

• Banner Ad Placement Heat Map

• Exploring Project Management Tasking Tools

October

• Rating Stuff in Norway

• Using Twitter as a Tool

September

• Hello, World!

• What Google Chrome Already Means to the Web

August

• The Sketching Process: Learning From a Cartoonist

July

• Hilarious Instructions Make Installation Easier

• Initial Impressions of Silverback

June

• Offline Experiences Can Influence Those Online

• User-Centric Design is About User Goals AND Business Goals, if the Client Gets It

• Who Are You?

May

• You’re Moderating Your Site to Death

• Why Did He Whisper?

• Effective Teams: Ideal Traits for Creative Partners

• Open Source Your Internal Discussions

April

• How Do You Want to Contact Us?

• Learning Product Development From a Candy Maker

• Do You Need to Change the Game to be Successful?

• Why Personas are Valuable

• Pennies From Heaven

• In Calls to Action, Less is More

• Be Spontaneous at the Right Time

• To Thine Own Self Be True

• The Customer Isn’t Always Right, but the Customers Are Always Right

March

• The Lizard King’s Social Strategy

• Mixing a Clear Vision with Agility

• Run Your Startup Like a Poker Pro

• An Agile Approach to Content Saves Stress (and Money!)

• Growing a Community is like Surviving in the Wilderness

• Should I Build a Facebook Application?

February

• Capitalizing on Agile’s Flexibility (Within Reason)

2007

December

• Squidoo: Profitable and Lasting Without VC

November

• Push it Real Good

October

• Information Design On and Offline

September

• A Whole New Web Site

August

• Reports of the Mobile Web’s Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

July

• Mahalo and Site Experience Optimization

June

• 3 Easy Ways to Accept Donations Online (For Nonprofits)

April

• What Does the Internet Say About YOU?

March

• Approaching Re-Designs in the Age of Social Media: A Lesson from USA Today

February

• Cut Down on Email and More with an Internal Blog

January

• “Social Media” Versus Web 2.0

• 2007 Resolution: Make The Web Better (Your Part of it, Anyway)

2006

December

• Web2.0 for Nonprofits

• Pamela Sorensen Gets Blogging

November

• This Problem Doesn’t Happen Online

• Defining Web Strategy

October

• Friendster Lesson: “Our Site Didn’t Work” (Technology Matters)

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