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Designing site structures for intranets and websites

A good site structure makes users happy. They can easily find, understand and use the information on your site. For the business, this makes all the difference. In this article, Maish takes you through principles behind good site structures and describe a methodology for creating site structures.
Table of Contents

What is a site structure?
What can go [...]

The Nokia User Experience & Design Resource

The Nokia User Experience resource focuses on the mobile user experience and consists of the following three sections:

Design process
Tips and tools that will help you apply user centered design to your mobile service.
User Experience
Learn what makes good mobile user experience with real-life examples.
Design Library
If you know exactly what platform you’re developing for and want [...]

Understanding the Experience of Social Network Sites

Social media in 2009, and social network sites in particular, reached new heights of popularity and adoption. It was no longer unusual for clients to request that designers ‘add Facebook’ to their respective sites, mainly for the purpose of increased engagement and community building for their brand as a part of a greater social marketing [...]

Insightico- a collaborative user research tool

Insightico is a collaborative user research tool that lets you add images, documents, audio and video files. You can then add insights to specific parts of the image, document, audio or video file and tag them.
Fellow researchers can star, like and comment on each others’ insights. Analyze the tags to see relationships and patterns [...]

The Space of Design

Models of the process of design are relatively common. Each describes a sequence of steps required to design something—or at least the steps that designers report or recommend taking. Models of the process of design are common because designers often need to explain what they do (or want to do) so that clients, colleagues, and [...]

Indian Companies on Twitter– A Usage Study

A study to understand how businesses in India are using Twitter profiled 66 companies from 9 verticals and analyzed them on different quantitative & qualitative parameters like no. of tweets, tweet type, conversation type. The report states that usage of Twitter will penetrate more organizations, and more firms and customers will start using the social [...]

The Use of Virtual Worlds Among People with Disabilities

It may appear that with their emphasis on 3D graphics and complex interface controls, gaming interfaces and virtual worlds have little to offer people with disabilities. However, virtual worlds serve as a form of augmented reality where users transcend physiological or cognitive challenges to great social and therapeutic benefit. A number of intriguing developments exist [...]

IDEO Labs

IDEO Labs is a place where we IDEO show bits of what they are working on, talk about prototyping, and share their excitement over the tools that help them create.
IDEO Labs

Be Kind to the Color Blind

The author has a color vision deficiency. Like roughly 7-10% of all males, his deuteranomaly makes it difficult to differentiate between some colors, like red and green. Color deficiency, or color blindness as it’s commonly referred to, doesn’t mean that he or people with similar conditions cannot see certain colors. They’re not invisible and he [...]

Twitter as a Cultural Artifact

McLuhan’s most useful device is the tetrad, a pedagogical tool designed to understand the transformative effects of a particular cultural artifact by looking at how it increased or decreased specific cultural patterns or brought back things that were lost in our society as a result of new technology.
To stave off further verbose explanation, here’s [...]