THE book on form design May 7 2008 at 11:18 PM

Congratulations to Luke Wroblewski on the release of his new book!
Luke has become the foremost expert on form design in the design industry and has now put together all his thoughts in an easy to use book. He provides the good, the bad, and the ugly of form design with many modern examples. Finally, Luke provides straight forward advice to designers and product managers on how to approach form design with your customers in mind.
This is a must read book for anyone making forms online…


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Back of the Napkin March 9 2008 at 3:53 PM

I’ve mentioned Dan Roam’s visual thinking approach here before and you haven’t heard of him you should check him out. Congratulations to Dan on releasing his first book: The Back of the Napkin (available March 13th). He shared a pre-release copy with me in the fall and I must say it is going to be a seminal book in the visual thinking space.
At a high level he’s created a number of frameworks for approaching visualizations (e.g. sketches, charts). Here’s one that I find... More

How I triage email using color March 6 2008 at 4:20 PM

Let’s face it, many of us now receive more email that we can read. So if we’re not reading all our email, are we at least reading the most important messages? If you haven’t customized your email client, I doubt it.
Most major email clients (e.g. Outlook) treat all messages the same and sort by time stamp. Unread messages are typically shown in bold. Here’s an example inbox:

Notice in this example, there are some messages which are more important than others. For example Jill... More

I’m hiring February 26 2008 at 10:19 PM

We’re expanding the User Experience Design team at eBay and are looking for a Lead Interaction Designer and a dozen other positions in IxD, Visual Design, and Content Strategy.
Update 4/4/08:
View jobs on LinkedIn: Interaction Designer, Senior IxD, Lead IxD
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Reflections on Interaction08 February 22 2008 at 4:54 PM

Wow! What a terrific conference! I’m fired up about Interaction Design following the inaugural IxDA conference in Savannah, GA. As I reflect on the conference, here are the highlights for me:
Bill Buxton [video, book] - We must embrace our unique qualities as interaction designers, respect the talents of others (e.g. developers), and together change our organization so that our talents are used. We must “stop whining!” Buxton pointed out that Jonathan Ive was at Apple for 5 years... More