Weekly Roundup (UX Edition)

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything related to user experience design so this week’s roundup is dedicated to getting back on topic:
ProtoShare - Interesting web app for creating wireframes and prototypes.  I haven’t used this but it does look promising.
Inside Google’s Design Process - “Design is integral to everything we do. We don’t [...]

User Assumes All Risk

I saw a sign in a parking lot this weekend that read, “Remove Valuables. User Assumes All Risk.”  The second statement made me think about how there are times I have to decide who assumes risk in the software I design.
For example, let’s say a user decides to delete a database record.  Should I warn [...]

Silverback and Usability Testing

Since its release last week, there have been numerous reviews of Silverback (the guerilla usability testing application). Most I’ve read are good overviews of the application but don’t discuss how to go about actually running a guerilla usability test.  What follows below is the process I used recently to test a new product feature. It’s [...]

Design IS the new black

Yesterday I viewed an excellent presentation by Will Tschumy. I had originally planned to embed the presentation here along with the notes I made. But I started thinking, did I really want this to be one of those kind of posts or should it be something different? A lot of thoughts bubbled up [...]

Ryan Singer on Web Application Usability

Can I get an amen? When you have 41 minutes, this video is really worth the time:

… when you make this effort to use color and size and weight and contrast and style in order to direct attention, and in order to support the content based on importance, very often naturally you get something that [...]