| Interaction-Design.Org |
"Interaction-Design.org is all about making research accessible. We deal with human-centered aspects of technology: Interaction Design, User Experience (UX), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Information Architecture (IA), Human Factors, Usability, and related fields." The site has four sections: an Open Content, peer-reviewed Encyclopedia, a huge conference calendar, a comprehensive bibliography, and "misDesigns," - short examples of defective designs tied to research themes.
(Posted 11/09)
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| STC Content Strategy SIG |
Content strategy is an emerging field of practice dealing with the planning aspects of managing content throughout its lifecycle. Strategy includes alignment to business goals, analysis, and modeling, and influences the development, production, presentation, evaluation, measurement, and sunsetting of content, including governance.
Via InfoDesign.
(Posted 11/09)
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| FOWD |
November 18-19, 2009. New York City.
Future of Web Design Conference. Here's the schedule. (Posted 11/09) 
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| Content Strategy Form 2010 |
April 15-16, 2010. Paris.
"Two exciting days of workshops, presentations and discussions led by leading experts and practitioners from the emerging field of Content Strategy. Whether you are already a content strategist, or looking to break into the field, this exceptional event will put you in touch with inspiring people and new ideas." (Posted 11/09)
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| UPA International Conference |
May 24-28, 2010. Munich, Germany.
"Our key theme will focus on how UX professionals can create great user experiences across different cultures, meeting the challenges of delivering to diverse audiences." (Posted 11/09) 
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| How Design Conference |
June 6-9, 2010. Denver.
The creativity, business, and technology conference for graphic designers. Sponsored by How Magazine. Handouts from the 2009 conference are available here. (Posted 11/09) |
| Conference Calendar |
From Interaction-Design.Org. The most comprehensive listing of current and previous conferences of which I'm aware.
(Posted 11/09)
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| 50 Most Usable RIAs |
by Theresa Neil. Theresa is co-author, with Bill scott, of the book Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interaction. The article illustrates 50 Rich Interaction Applications and explains why each was selected.
(Posted 11/09)
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| How to Understand Your Users with Personas |
By Brad Colbow. The article is in comic book format.
(Posted 11/09)
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| Garrett's State of the User Experience |
Jesse James Garrett gives a State of the User Experience Address. 40 minutes.
(Posted 11/09)
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| Designing Rich Applications |
By Theresa Neil.
Presentation given on Aug. 6, 2009 at DELVE NYC- a 2 Day Masterclass on Designing User Interfaces. It complements the book Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interaction by Theresa and Bill Scott. It addresses structuring applications for richness, using standard screen patterns, and selecting the best UI controls.
(Posted 11/09)
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| User Experience. UX Design |
"The purpose of uxdesign.com is to contribute to and support the professional user experience (UX, UE) design, interaction design, and business strategy communities, to help us design interactive systems that improve people's lives."
(Posted 11/09)
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| Tales from Redesignland |
"Where web developers live and wish they could die." Most of the content is in cartoon format.
(Posted 11/09)
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| Design Checklist |
From Mert Tol. "The following checklist serves to summarize the major points and to help you ensure you've done all you should before finalizing any web site you are creating." Good checkpoint questions in many dimensions. Well done.
Via elearningpost.
(Posted 11/09)
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| Europe's Fifth Information Architecture Summit |
September 25-26, 2009. Copenhagen.
"This year we will explore the theme "Beyond Structure". That's because websites have moved to a new level. Any random page can be accessed from Google. Pages themselves may consist of information from many sources. And even the concept of a "page" is changing thanks to new backend technologies. In other words, we've moved beyond the traditional sitemap and into a new and exciting era of web development. " (Posted 9/09)
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| DevLearn09 |
November 10-13, 2009. San Jose, California.
"DevLearn 2009 Conference & Expo is for learning management, design, and development professionals who are leading e-Learning efforts, and who need to stay on top of emerging technologies, proven strategies, and best practices to ensure their organization’s success." (Posted 9/09)
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| Fluid Design Handbook |
"A How-to Guide filled with user-centered design (UCD) techniques you can use to learn from your users and design better user experiences.a How-to Guide filled with user-centered design (UCD) techniques you can use to learn from your users and design better user experiences." Excellent material.
(Posted 9/09)
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| Managing UI Complexity |
"I've spent the past year redesigning a particularly complex application with my primary focus being on reducing complexity. In this article, I'll go over some of the issues surrounding complexity and techniques that can be used to manage it."
Via InfoDesign.
(Posted 9/09)
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| How I draft an information architecture |
By DonnaM. Thoughtful piece on designing a small site.
Via elearningpost.
(Posted 9/09)
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| UX Resources |
"User experience organizations, sites, articles presentations, and other resources." Especially strong on design patterns.
(Posted 9/09)
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| User Testing |
Well-selected resources.
(Posted 9/09)
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| Naview - Navigation preview tool for rapid IA prototyping |
"Naview is a navigation preview tool for rapid information architecture prototyping from Volkside. It helps information architects design and visualise a new navigational structure and aims to bridge the gap between card sorting and IA user testing."
Via InfoDesign.
(Posted 9/09)
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| 2009 bloggies |
9th annual weblog awards. Awards from previous years are available, too.
(Posted 4/06, Updated 9/09)
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| Rubin, J., Chesnell, D., 2008.
Handbook of Usability Testing, 2nd Edition. NY: John Wiley. (Posted 5/97, Updated 9/09)
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| Cooper, A., Reimann, R., & Cronin, D., 2007.
About Face 3.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design. Wiley Publishing, Inc. (Posted 6/97, Updated 9/09)
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| Hearst, M. 2007.
Search User Interfaces. Cambridge University Press "To make this book available to as many readers as possible, the author, with permission of Cambridge University Press, has placed the full text online free of charge."
(Posted 9/09)
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| Scott, B. and Neil, T. 2009
Designing Web Interfaces. O'Reilly.
All of the illustrations from the book can be viewed here. A very useful blog complements the book.
And this is an 85-minute webcast on the book.
(Posted 3/09, Updated 9/09)
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| Gill, T., Gilliland, A., Whalen, M., Woodley, M., 2008.
Introduction to Metadata, v3. Getty Publications. Via elearningpost.
(Posted 9/09)
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| IKE'09 |
July 13-16, 2009. Las Vegas.
The 2009 International Conference on Information and Knowledge Engineering. Some of the many themes treated include information retrieval systems, knowledge mining, knowledge management and cyber-learning, knowledge delivery methods, and knowledge life cycle. (Posted 7/09) 
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| AAAI-09 |
July 14-16, 2009. Pasadena.
The Twenty-first IAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. The purpose of the conference is "to promote research in AI and scientific exchange among AI researchers, practitioners, scientists, and engineers in related disciplines." (Posted 7/09)
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| KM Asia 2009 |
November 24-26, 2009. Singapore.
"Using knowledge management to advance your organisation during times of change." The programme will be posted here. (Posted 7/09) 
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| Interaction Design Pilot Year |
"A collaborative initiative between Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design (CIID) and The Danish Design School (DKDS). Our aim is for students, faculty and staff to work together in a multi-cultural, multidisciplinary studio environment to co-create a new kind of education that is relevant for academia and industry.
Via xblog.
(Posted 7/09)
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| Web Dev.edu: Top 50 Free Open Courseware Classes to Develop Better Web Sites |
About half the courses are on web design and interaction design.
(Posted 7/09)
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| Usability.Edu: 25 Incredibly Useful Usability Cheat Sheets & Checklists |
"You can find cheat sheets and checklists for forms, blogs and more below, all listed in alphabetical order."
Via InfoDesign.
(Posted 7/09)
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| 30 Examples of Attractive Nav |
"To help you generate new ideas and inspiration for user navigation, here are 30 great examples of attractive and usable navigation."
Via elearningpost.
(Posted 7/09)
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| 70+ PowerPoint and Presentation Resources and Great Examples |
Presentations, resources, blogs, and fun & humor.
(Posted 7/09)
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| Journal of Information Architecture |
"An international peer-reviewed scholarly journal. Its aim is to facilitate the systematic development of the scientific body of knowledge in the field."
(Posted 7/09)
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| Designing a Unified Experience: Bringing Interaction, Visual, and Industrial Design Together |
"Users have just one experience of a product, though. All three aspects of the design must work in concert, or the product will fail to satisfy. Integration of the three disciplines is a central theme of Kim's new book, Designing for the Digital Age. "
Via InfoDesign.
(Posted 7/09)
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| Designing a Unified Experience: Bringing Interaction, Visual, and Industrial Design Together |
"Users have just one experience of a product, though. All three aspects of the design must work in concert, or the product will fail to satisfy. Integration of the three disciplines is a central theme of Kim's new book, Designing for the Digital Age. "
Via InfoDesign.
(Posted 7/09)
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| Many Eyes |
Explorations of information visualizations that help people collectively make sense of data. Part of IBM's Collaborative User Experience research group. Explorations of information visualizations that help people collectively make sense of data. See especially the site's presentation on visualization types.
(Posted 7/09)
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| MasterViews International |
Effective PowerPoint presentations for International Audiences.
A free monthly newspaper offering "solutions, how-to techniques and resources on effective presentation-making, information design, presentation technology, and delivery approaches. MasterView is an also an open discussion forum for many of you having specific questions about making presentations."
(Posted 7/09)
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| EllenFinklestein.com |
Guidance on creating more effective PowerPoint presentations:
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| Good Magazine Infographics |
A FLICKR archive of good Infographics
Via elearningpost.
(Posted 7/09)
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| Corporate Learning Trends and Innovations |
"Join us to explore new developments, track emerging opportunities, network with other learning pioneers, and deal with topics you don’t find at the conferences you have to travel to. Events here are live and online" and free.
(Posted 5/09)
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| From Business to Buttons |
June 11-12, 2009. Malmo, Sweden.
Conference focusing on experience design with an emphasis on how to bridge the gap between the business goals and the product in use. These are the sessions. (Posted 5/09)
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| IDEA2009 |
Sept. 15-16, 2009. Toronto.
IDEA2009 explores the convergence of Experience Design with Social and User Experiences. (Posted 5/09)
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| Mobile HCI 2009 |
September 15-18, 2009. Bonn, Germany.
"A forum for academics and practitioners to discuss the challenges and potential solutions for effective interaction with mobile systems and services. It covers the design, evaluation and application of techniques and approaches for all mobile and wearable computing devices and services." (Posted 5/09)
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| Museums and the Web 2009 |
April 15-18, 2009. Indianapolis.
Here's the preliminary program. These are the best of the web nominees (Posted 1/09, updated 5/09) 
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| SWSW Interactive |
March 13-19, 2009. Austin.
Panel topics cover everything from web design, usability, and blogging to wireless innovation and new technology business models. Podcasts from the conference are available. (Posted 9/08, updated 5/09)
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| Reviewing User Interfaces |
By Rhoda Bracey. "If you identify usability issues early, it's much more likely the team can remedy them before launch, preventing bad reviews…, negative word-of-mouth, and the lost sales that result from them."
Via InfoDesign.
(Posted 5/09)
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| Handbook of Emerging Technologies for Learning |
A "resource for educators planning to incorporate technologies in their teaching and learning activities. " A PDF version of the handbook is also available.
Via elearningpost.
(Posted 5/09)
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| User Experience |
Magazine published quarterly by the
Usability Professionals Association.
(Posted 5/09)
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| IA Summit Presentations |
From the summit held in Memphis, TN from March 20-22, 2009.
These are presentations from
day 1 and
day 2.
(Posted 5/09)
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| The History-and Evolution of User Experience Design |
An interview with Peter Merholz, president and co-founder of Adaptive Path.
Via InfoDesign.
(Posted 5/09)
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| ETech 2009 Slides and Plenary Videos |
From O'Reilly's ETech Conference, March 9-12, 2009. San Jose.
(Posted 5/09)
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| Design Lively Elearning with Action Mapping |
by Cathy Moore.
"I’ve been using a quick, visual process to design projects. I call it action mapping because it helps you change what people do, not just what they know. It helps you design action-packed materials that are 100% dedicated to improving business performance, and it can keep stakeholders from adding extraneous information."
Via Communication Nation.
(Posted 5/09)
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| Making Change |
Ideas for lively elearning by Cathy Moore.
(Posted 5/09)
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| IUI 2009 |
February 8-11, 2009. Sanibel Island, Florida
"The annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community and serves as the principal international forum for reporting outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces." These are links to past IUI conferences. (Posted 3/09)
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Gel 2009 |
April 30-May 1, 2009. NYC.
"Gel ("Good Experience Live") is a conference and community exploring good experience in all its forms -- in business, art, society, technology, and life." Videos of many presentations from the 2005 and 2006 conferences are available. (Posted 3/09)
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| Technical Communications Summit |
May 3-6, 2009. Atlanta.
Annual conference of the Society for Technical Communication. This is the preliminary program. (Posted 3/09)
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| ACM Multimedia 2009 |
October 19 - 24, 2009. Beijing, China
"The premier annual multimedia conference, covering all aspects of multimedia computing: from underlying technologies to applications, theory to practice, and servers to networks to devices." (Posted 3/09)
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| J. Boye Conferences: Aarhus 2009 |
Knowledge Sharing Summits for Online Professionals
November 3-5, 2009. Aarhus, Denmark. Forum for knowledge sharing among web practitioners, web managers, web project managers, intranet managers and other online professionals. (Posted 3/09)
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| Learning 2009 |
November 8-11, 2009 Orlando.
Elliot Masie's learning conference. This is the program guide. (Posted 3/09) 
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| Userfly |
"Run instant usability studies for your website using your real users. You can get it up & running in seconds with one line of javascript, and immediately watch movies of your users' browsing sessions to analyze their behavior. . . .It's free to start, and if you find it useful, you pay only $0.05 per recorded user."
Via elearning post.
(Posted 3/09)
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| User Experience Deliverables |
By Peter Morville.
"Twenty user experience deliverables with links to relevant resources and examples." Very useful.
(Posted 3/09)
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| Design Patterns: Introduction |
By Luke W. A conversation about defining and sharing user interface design languages.
(Posted 3/09)
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| eGovernment Resource Centre |
"This site provides access to Victorian Government eGovernment strategies, policies, website standards, information and communications technology (ICT) and government website best practices." From Australia.
(Posted 3/09)
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| IA One-Sheeters |
"One-Sheeters are quick and easy marketing tools for information architects. They're like mini brochures to advertise IA deliverables and promote the IA practice in your company. "
(Posted 3/09)
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| What the Heck is User Experience Design??!! |
(And Why Should I Care?) An interview with Jesse James Garrett, President and co-founder of Adaptive Path. 21 minutes.
Via InfoDesign.
(Posted 3/09)
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| Scott, B. and Neil, T. 2009
Designing Web Interfaces. O'Reilly.
All of the illustrations from the book can be viewed here.
All the illustrations in the book are available here: http://flickr.com/photos/designingwebinterfaces
(Posted 3/09)
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| Young, I. 2008
Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior. Rosenfeld Media.
All of the illustrations from the book can be viewed here.
(Posted 7/08, Updated 3/09)
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