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
Ajax / RIAs / Web 2.0 Applications
Book Reviews
Brand Strategy
Business of UX
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
CHI 2007
DUX 2005
IA Summit 2006
IA Summit 2007
Interaction Frontiers 2006
STC 2007
Strategy06
SXSW 2006
The Web and Beyond 2006
UIE Web App Summit 2007
UPA 2007
User Friendly 2005
User Friendly 2006
Design Process
Editorials
Information Architecture
Information Design
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
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
UX Design
UX Development
UX Organizations
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
Web Site Design
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