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As I'm struggling to find the time to post to this blog as frequently as I'd like, I've decided to give it a rest for a while. I...

Kim Goodwin talked to Jared Spool for the UIE.com podcast back in August 2014. It was a fantastic, inspiring chat with some great thoughts o...

I was introduced to an article a week or two ago - "UX is not UI" - which prompted a bit of thinking and a look back at other rela...

I attended yet another excellent free breakfast briefing put on by Edinburgh consultants, User Vision. This time the topic was the UX maturi...

The Global Service Jam took place on the last weekend in February, with Edinburgh consultants Nile kindly hosting a great weekend of collabo...

At the end of last year, Nielsen Norman Group published an article talking up the website FAQ. I usually only post on positives and what I ...

Jakob Nielsen's company have just released an interesting study on user attention and willingness to scroll. The bottom line: the top of...

User Vision are running another of their great, free sessions next month. This time the topic is UX maturity in the organisation.

Christian Rohrer's graphing of user research techniques has been around for a while; he's just written a great article about it for ...

A lovely article in which Lou Rosenfeld tells a few stories and makes a very important point - bring together what you learn from different ...

Sitting on the bus the other day, I picked up a copy of the free newspaper - the Metro. The outermost pages were an advert for the electrica...

I went along to another excellent breakfast briefing session put on by Edinburgh UX consultants User Vision. They've made the slides ava...

Nicole Fenton tells us a couple of stories that lead to some really great points and advice on labels, help and error messages for user inte...

If you design interfaces on any level, you need to know about Gestalt Principles. I'm sure any designer reading this will be in granny s...

I've been a long time subscriber to the remote usability testing tool UserTesting.com. They've recently introduced a free taster se...

Jeff Sauro pulls together a collection of articles, software and other useful stuff relating to planning website and application structure a...

Head of User Research Lisa Reichelt has written an interesting blog post about how the complexity of problems can be paralysing. She says th...

I gave a presentation today at the Edinburgh Open Source Breakfast session, a monthly developers meet up. I had 40 minutes on the topic of i...

Earlier this month, I presented at the UK Higher Education Web Managers Conference, IWMW. I talked about how user experience skills and tech...

To help me prepare for a presentation I'm giving at this year's IWMW web managers conference I sent out a survey to web teams asking...