The Mechanical Designer

User interface design for beginners, intermediates or experts?

via UX Passion - User experience, usability, IA, Silverlight and WPF tutorials and articles

As a user experience designers we are regularly in situations where our design decisions will make significant effect on the ... Read More >>

.toolbox: Learn Silverlight, Expression Studio and UX design

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Microsoft’s .toolbox website plans to teach you Silverlight, Expression Studio and UX design principles and fundamentals. You ... Read More >>

Free WPF ribbon control RTW now available for free download

via UX Passion - User experience, usability, IA, Silverlight and WPF tutorials and articles

It's been a while. But now, free WPF ribbon control is available as free download for all of you. And not – it's not a wrapper ... Read More >>

Why Human Systems Integration Fails (And Why the University Is the Problem)

via JND.org

The field of Human Factors and its many descendants -- Cognitive Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Ergonomics, ... Read More >>

Mockup Tips: Datagrids and Specifying Interaction

via UX Blog

We often get questions about how to do complex things in Mockups. I think the best bet is try to design with minimalism in ... Read More >>

When is design done?

via Cooperdotcom

“We don't finish the movies, we just release them.” -- John Lasseter of Pixar It’s easy to think of design ... Read More >>

Should Designers Work for Free?

via Design Sojourn

Jessica Hische has created a nice little flow chart to help designers decide if we should work for free. Jessica has ... Read More >>

Good Design

via User Experience.UX Design

User-friendly design is a term that has been around for ages. But what is it? What is good design? First we distinguish design ... Read More >>

Natural User Interfaces Are Not Natural

via JND.org

Gestural interaction is the new excitement in the halls of industry. Advances in the size, power, and cost of microprocessors, ... Read More >>

Agile 2008 Alan Cooper Interview

via User Experience.UX Design

interview excerpts, clipped out to highlight Cooper's ideas about Agile, Extreme Programming, Open Source, and being a ... Read More >>