User Experience

UX People: Win a Copy of My Book (Feb 28, 2008)
My company nForm is creating another set of user experience trading cards for the IA Summit this year (we published last year's card set over at uxmethods.com). We've got 15 of the 16 cards, but we're looking for one more...

Tagging, the book (Jan 17, 2008)
So my book, Tagging: People-Powered Metadata for the Social Web is finally done and available for order from your favorite bookstore: Amazon.com Amazon.ca (Currently #485 in books) Chapters/Indigo Amazon UK (only 2 left in stock!) Amazon Germany (#1 in Non-fiction...

Goodhart's Law and social web design (Jan 15, 2008)
A few weeks ago I came across Goodhart's Law, a rule-of-thumb in economics that has some application to the design of social software. In fact, it's particularly relevant to the creation of metrics and algorithms that model things like influence,...

Earlier Posts

The problems of popularity (Apr 15, 2007)

Two kinds of systems (Feb 16, 2007)

The Experience Cycle (Dec 4, 2006)

Holy Globo, Batman (Nov 14, 2006)

Slidesharin' (Oct 4, 2006)

Coding interviews with Microsoft OneNote (Sep 25, 2006)

CanUX keynote (Sep 17, 2006)

Leverage points in Digg (Sep 12, 2006)

Start with a hypothesis, and other good design advice (Aug 21, 2006)

Web 2.0 tops the Gartner hype cycle (Aug 10, 2006)

A Nomic Digg (Jul 27, 2006)

Capability, usability and feature fatigue (Mar 17, 2006)

Introducing the scroll wheel to web applications (Feb 1, 2006)

The proliferation of simple tools (Dec 16, 2005)

This is broken: Cingular wi-fi service (Oct 15, 2005)

Web 2.0: my part is done (Oct 4, 2005)

CanUX (Sep 27, 2005)

The Human Factor (Sep 9, 2005)

What happened to the IDEO shopping cart? (Sep 6, 2005)

Marc Rettig's Designing for Experience (Aug 30, 2005)

CanUX speaker list (Aug 10, 2005)

More information about CanUX (Jul 27, 2005)

Super-secret UX event (Jul 19, 2005)

It's the stupid stupid, stupid (Apr 6, 2005)

Some thoughts on Ajax (Feb 23, 2005)

Thin-slicing user interviews (Feb 18, 2005)

Outsourcing IA/UX (Dec 6, 2004)

Kano Taxonomy of Customer Needs (Nov 15, 2004)