UXmatters :: Insights and Inspiration for the User Experience Community

Spirit Softworks Principal User Experience Architect Pabini Gabriel-Petit is the Founder, Publisher, and Editor in Chief of UXmatters, a Web magazine created by and for user experience (UX) professionals. UXmatters provides a venue where people working in user experience can come together to discuss important issues, share information, and work collaboratively to create a resource that will provide value to the UX community. Current Issue 

Topics on UXmatters

Here is a list of the articles on UXmatters by topic:

Agile UCD

• Clash of the Titans: Agile and UCD—by Richard F. Cecil, December 2006
• Four Factors of Agile UX—by Luca Mascaro, June 2007

Ajax / RIAs / Web 2.0 Applications

• Conference Report: The Web and Beyond—by Peter Bogaards, October 2006
• Designing User Experiences for Applications Versus Information Resources on the Web—by Leo Frishberg, January 2006
• Improving User Workflows with Single-Page User Interfaces—by Joost Willemsen, November 2006
• RIAs: The Technology Is Exciting, but They Really Do Help Users—by David Heller Malouf, December 2005
• Conference Review: UIE Web App Summit 2007—by Pabini Gabriel-Petit, March 2007
• The Web and Beyond: SIGCHI Conference in Amsterdam—by Pabini Gabriel-Petit, October 2006

Book Reviews

• Book Review: Designing for Interaction—by Leo Frishberg, September 2006
• Book Review: Designing Interfaces—by Leo Frishberg, November 2006
• Book Review: Effective Prototyping for Software Makers—by Leo Frishberg, May 2007
• Book Review: Information Dashboard Design—by Pabini Gabriel-Petit, April 2007
• Book Review: Paper Prototyping—by Pabini Gabriel-Petit, May 2006
• Book Review: Sketching User Experiences—by Leo Frishberg, October 2007

Brand Strategy

• Brand Experience in User Experience Design—by Steve Baty, July 2006
• Marketing Isn’t a Dirty Word—by Colleen Jones, October 2007

Business of UX

• Comparing UXD Business Models—by Jim Nieters and Garett Dworman, July 2007
• Open Sesame! Selling UX Services—by Maura Schreier-Fleming and Janet M. Six, March 2006
• Why UX Should Matter to Software Companies—by Pabini Gabriel-Petit, March 2006
• Your Design Is Infringing On My Patent: The Case Against User Interface and Interaction Model Patents and Intellectual Property—by Paul J. Sherman, July 2007

Communicating Design

• Book Review: Effective Prototyping for Software Makers—by Leo Frishberg, May 2007
• Book Review: Paper Prototyping—by Pabini Gabriel-Petit, May 2006
• Book Review: Sketching User Experiences—by Leo Frishberg, October 2007
• Creating Conceptual Comics: Storytelling and Techniques—by Andrew Hinton, April 2006
• Live by the Mockup, Die by the Mockup—by Luke Wroblewski, February 2006
• User Assistance Walkthroughs: Helping Best Practices Emerge—by Mike Hughes, July 2007
• Walking Through Your Product Design With Stakeholders—by Daniel Szuc, June 2007
• Wireframing With InDesign and Illustrator—by Todd Warfel, January 2007
• Wireframing With Patterns—by Lindsay Ellerby, March 2007

Conference Reviews

CHI 2006

• Experiencing CHI 2006: From a Practitioner's Viewpoint—by Pabini Gabriel-Petit, July/August 2006
• Faceted Metadata for Information Architecture and Search—by Jessyca Frederick, June 2006
• International Usability Evaluation: Issues and Strategies—by Michele Marut, July 2006
• Journeying Through CHI 2006—by Elizabeth Bacon, June 2006
• Returning to CHI: Different Experience, Same Rush—by Jessyca Frederick, June 2006

CHI 2007

• Comparing UXD Business Models—by Jim Nieters and Garett Dworman, July 2007
• Conference Review: CHI 2007—by Pabini Gabriel-Petit, July 2007
• From Reluctance to Enjoyment: My Journey Through CHI 2007—by Isabelle Peyrichoux, July 2007

DUX 2005

• Another Perspective on DUX2005—by Pabini Gabriel-Petit, November 2005
• DUX2005: One Person's Journey—by Elizabeth Bacon, November 2005

IA Summit 2006

• Conference Review: IA Summit 2007—by Pabini Gabriel-Petit, April 2007
• Creating Conceptual Comics: Storytelling and Techniques—by Andrew Hinton, April 2006
• IA Summit 2006: Gathering of the Tribe—by Laurie Lamar, April 2006
• Information Architecture and Findability—by Russell Wilson, April 2006
• Interaction Design (IxD) Symposium—by Russell Wilson, April 2006
• More IA Summit 2006 Session Reviews—by Russell Wilson, April 2006
• My IA Summit 2006 Experience—by Pabini Gabriel-Petit, April 2006

IA Summit 2007

• Conference Review: IA Summit 2007—by Pabini Gabriel-Petit, April 2007

Interaction Frontiers 2006

• A Day at Interaction Frontiers 06—by Luca Mascaro, November 2006
• Interaction Frontiers 06: Conference Report—by Laura Caprio, November 2006
• The Atmosphere at Interaction Frontiers 2006—by Giovanni Bellocchio, November 2006

STC 2007

• Conference Review: STC Technical Communication Summit, Usability Track—by Stacia Marlett, June 2007
• The STC 54th Annual Conference—by Mike Hughes, June 2007

Strategy06

• Strategy06: A UX Professional’s Experience of the Conference—by Pabini Gabriel-Petit, September 2006

SXSW 2006

• Dogma Free Design at SXSW 2006—by Russell Wilson, May 2006

The Web and Beyond 2006

• Conference Report: The Web and Beyond—by Peter Bogaards, October 2006
• The Web and Beyond: SIGCHI Conference in Amsterdam—by Pabini Gabriel-Petit, October 2006

UIE Web App Summit 2007

• Conference Review: UIE Web App Summit 2007—by Pabini Gabriel-Petit, March 2007

UPA 2007

• Conference Review: UPA 2007: Part I—by Joi L. Roberts, August 2007
• Conference Review: UPA 2007: Part II—by Joi L. Roberts, August 2007

User Friendly 2005

• A Glimpse of China’s Future at User Friendly 2005—by Robert Barlow-Busch, February 2006

User Friendly 2006

• Usability in China: Encore—by Daniel Szuc and Paul J. Sherman, January 2007

Design Process

• An Audience of One: Creating Products for Very Small Workgroups—by Jonathan Follet, August 2007

Editorials

• By the People, for the People—by Pabini Gabriel-Petit, November 2006
• Welcome to UXmatters—by Pabini Gabriel-Petit, November 2005

Information Architecture

• Conference Review: IA Summit 2007—by Pabini Gabriel-Petit, April 2007
• Conference Review: UIE Web App Summit 2007—by Pabini Gabriel-Petit, March 2007
• Faceted Metadata for Information Architecture and Search—by Jessyca Frederick, June 2006
• IA Summit 2006: Gathering of the Tribe—by Laurie Lamar, April 2006
• Information Architecture and Findability—by Russell Wilson, April 2006
• Information Architecture 2.0—by Dan Brown, November 2005
• More IA Summit 2006 Session Reviews—by Russell Wilson, April 2006
• My IA Summit 2006 Experience—by Pabini Gabriel-Petit, April 2006

Information Design

• Book Review: Information Dashboard Design—by Pabini Gabriel-Petit, April 2007
• More Alike Than We Think—by Whitney Quesenbery, March 2006
• Rediscovering Communication—by Colleen Jones, August 2007
• Refining Data Tables—by Luke Wroblewski, August 2006
• Small Multiples Within a User Interface—by Luke Wroblewski, December 2005
• So the Necessary May Speak—by Luke Wroblewski, November 2006

Interaction Design

• Book Review: Designing for Interaction—by Leo Frishberg, September 2006
• Book Review: Designing Interfaces—by Leo Frishberg, November 2006
• Conference Report: The Web and Beyond—by Peter Bogaards, October 2006
• Conference Review: UIE Web App Summit 2007—by Pabini Gabriel-Petit, March 2007
• Evaluating the Usability of Search Forms Using Eyetracking: A Practical Approach—by Matteo Penzo, January 2006
• Improving User Workflows with Single-Page User Interfaces—by Joost Willemsen, November 2006
• Interaction Design (IxD) Symposium—by Russell Wilson, April 2006
• Interfaces That Flow: Transitions as Design Elements—by Jonathan Follet, April 2007
• Selection-Dependent Inputs—by Luke Wroblewski, February 2007
• The Complexity of Simplicity—by Luke Wroblewski, December 2006
• The Elements of Interaction Design—by Dan Saffer, May 2006
• The Web and Beyond: SIGCHI Conference in Amsterdam—by Pabini Gabriel-Petit, October 2006
• What Puts the Design in Interaction Design?—by Kevin Silver, July 2007

Usability

• Conference Review: UPA 2007: Part I—by Joi L. Roberts, August 2007
• Conference Review: UPA 2007: Part II—by Joi L. Roberts, August 2007
• Creating a Universal Usability Agenda—by Whitney Quesenbery, November 2006
• Evaluating the Usability of Search Forms Using Eyetracking: A Practical Approach—by Matteo Penzo, January 2006
• How Do Users Really Feel About Your Design?—by Paul J. Sherman, September 2007
• International Usability Evaluation: Issues and Strategies—by Michele Marut, July 2006
• Introduction to Eyetracking: Seeing Through Your Users’ Eyes—by Matteo Penzo, December 2005
• More Alike Than We Think—by Whitney Quesenbery, March 2006
• When Observing Users Is Not Enough: 10 Guidelines for Getting More Out of Users’ Verbal Comments—by Isabelle Peyrichoux, April 2007
• Why People Matter—by Whitney Quesenbery, November 2005

User Assistance

• Dynamic Help in Web Forms—by Luke Wroblewski, May 2007
• Effective User Assistance Design: Ten Best Practices—by Meghashri Dalvi, February 2007
• Instructional Text in the User Interface: Some Counterintuitive Implications of User Behaviors—by Mike Hughes, March 2007
• New Life for Product Documentation—by Whitney Quesenbery, August 2006
• The Anatomy of a Help File: An Iterative Approach—by Mike Hughes, May 2007
• The Help Landscape: A Mile Wide and 30 Seconds Deep—by Mike Hughes, September 2007
• User Assistance in the Role of Domain Expert—by Mike Hughes, January 2007
• User Assistance Walkthroughs: Helping Best Practices Emerge—by Mike Hughes, July 2007

User-Centered Design

• An Audience of One: Creating Products for Very Small Workgroups—by Jonathan Follet, August 2007
• Applied Empathy: A Design Framework for Meeting Human Needs and Desires: Part I—by Dirk Knemeyer, September 2006
• Applied Empathy: A Design Framework for Meeting Human Needs and Desires: Part Two: Dimensions, Needs, and Desires—by Dirk Knemeyer, December 2006
• Clash of the Titans: Agile and UCD—by Richard F. Cecil, December 2006
• How Do Users Really Feel About Your Design?—by Paul J. Sherman, September 2007
• Personas, Goals, and Emotional Design—by Robert Reimann, November 2005
• When ROI Isn’t Enough: Making Persuasive Cases for User-Centered Design—by Colleen Jones, May 2007

User Experience (UX)

• Audio and the User Experience—by Jonathan Follet, June 2007
• Data: The Essence of a Digital Lifestyle—by Dirk Knemeyer, November 2005
• Deconstructing the Mobile Web—by Dirk Knemeyer, May 2006
• Display 2.0: A Look Forward to the High-Definition Web and Its Effect on Our Digital Experience—by Jonathan Follet, August 2006
• Envisioning the Future of User Experience—by Paul J. Sherman, April 2007
• Envisioning the Whole Digital Person—by Jonathan Follet, February 2007
• From GUI to E(motional) UI—by Leandro Agro, September 2006
• Interfaces for People, Not Products—by Jonathan Follet, October 2006
• Living La Vida Virtual: Interfaces of the Near Future—by Dirk Knemeyer, December 2005
• Rediscovering Communication—by Colleen Jones, August 2007
• Trust and Blame—by Whitney Quesenbery, February 2006
• Where Are You Now? Design for the Location Revolution—by Jonathan Follet, October 2007

User Research

• Card Sorting: Mistakes Made and Lessons Learned—by Sam Ng, September 2007
• From Reluctance to Enjoyment: My Journey Through CHI 2007—by Isabelle Peyrichoux, July 2007
• User Research Doesn’t Prove Anything—by Steve Baty, March 2007
• User Research: Subjectivity and Objectivity in Practice—by Steve Baty, November 2006
• When Observing Users Is Not Enough: 10 Guidelines for Getting More Out of Users’ Verbal Comments—by Isabelle Peyrichoux, April 2007

UX Design

• Audio and the User Experience—by Jonathan Follet, June 2007
• Brand Experience in User Experience Design—by Steve Baty, July 2006
• Designing for Bridge Experiences—by Joel Grossman, June 2006
• Designing the Mobile User Experience—by Richard F. Cecil, October 2006
• Designing User Experiences for Applications Versus Information Resources on the Web—by Leo Frishberg, January 2006
• From GUI to E(motional) UI—by Leandro Agro, September 2006
• Marketing Isn’t a Dirty Word—by Colleen Jones, October 2007
• Scalable Design—by Luke Wroblewski, October 2007

UX Development

• The Composite Intelligence of Virtual Assistants—by Roberto Ostinelli, October 2007

UX Organizations

• UXnet Local Ambassadors: Building a Global Community One Locale at a Time—by John Ferrara, Pabini Gabriel-Petit, and Louis Rosenfeld, January 2006

UX Strategy

• Comparing UXD Business Models—by Jim Nieters and Garett Dworman, July 2007
• Conducting Successful Interviews With Project Stakeholders—by Steve Baty, September 2007
• Connecting Cultures, Changing Organizations: The User Experience Practitioner As Change Agent—by Paul J. Sherman, January 2007
• Designing Breakthrough Products: Going Where No User Has Gone Before—by George Olsen, October 2006
• Marketing Isn’t a Dirty Word—by Colleen Jones, October 2007
• Sharing Ownership of UX—by Pabini Gabriel-Petit, May 2007
• Strategy06: A UX Professional’s Experience of the Conference—by Pabini Gabriel-Petit, September 2006
• The Enterprise User Experience: Bridging the IT/Marketing Divide—by Bob Goodman, November 2005
• The Role and Evolution of Design in Software Products—by Dirk Knemeyer, February 2006
• When ROI Isn’t Enough: Making Persuasive Cases for User-Centered Design—by Colleen Jones, May 2007
• Why UX Should Matter to Software Companies—by Pabini Gabriel-Petit, March 2006

Visual Design

• Applying Color Theory to Digital Displays—by Pabini Gabriel-Petit, January 2007
• Color Theory for Digital Displays: A Quick Reference: Part I—by Pabini Gabriel-Petit, January 2006
• Color Theory for Digital Displays: A Quick Reference: Part II—by Pabini Gabriel-Petit, January 2006
• Developing the Invisible—by Luke Wroblewski, May 2006
• Ensuring Accessibility for People With Color-Deficient Vision—by Pabini Gabriel-Petit, February 2007
• Label Placement in Forms—by Matteo Penzo, July 2006
• Seeing the World in Symbols: Icons and the Evolving Language of Digital Wayfinding—by Jonathan Follet, December 2006
• Small Multiples Within a User Interface—by Luke Wroblewski, December 2005
• The Complexity of Simplicity—by Luke Wroblewski, December 2006

Web Site Design

• Designing User Experiences for Applications Versus Information Resources on the Web—by Leo Frishberg, January 2006
• Home Page Design—by Daniel Szuc, August 2007
• Marketing Isn’t a Dirty Word—by Colleen Jones, October 2007
• More Alike Than We Think—by Whitney Quesenbery, March 2006