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Do UX teams require new skills for Content Strategy, Service Design, or Lean UX?

Content Strategy, Service Design, and Lean UX. These are what I call special collections of skills. Let me explain.

We’ve identified a bunch of skills that make up user experience design.

A list of skills necessary in UX teams

Countdown to the end of Internet Explorer 6

Internet Explorer 6 Countdown

If you’ve ever designed for the Web, you know what a pain it is to get your work to look right in Internet Explorer 6. It’s outdated, and it’s not standards compliant, so a design that…




Every fiber of my being yells to not eat this orange!!! (Taken with instagram)


What do you call those hover-revealing layered-on-top contextual menus?

Greg wrote:

I’m interested in finding information about “On Object UI”. To me, this term means displaying controls on or near an object after the user has interacted with the object by hovering…


TSA recommends using sexual predator tactics to calm kids at checkpoints

TSA regional security director James Marchand advises parents whose kids are upset by TSA groping to make a game of it, a suggestion that alarmed sex-abuse prevention experts, since “Telling a…


Jonathan Coulton's "Shop•Vac" in kinetic type

Video link. Boing Boing fave Jonathan Coulton had his peppy song “Shop•Vac” given the kinetic type treatment by designer Jarrett Heather. The sheer amount of brand references in the…



Before and after. All sans badges. (Taken with instagram at Barrier Audi)


Creating great user experiences takes a multidisciplinary team that shares ownership of UX


“Creating truly great products requires an entire product team to place the needs of users foremost when making product decisions—or even better, a user-centered corporate…


Statistics vs. Stories

Professor of Mathematics at Temple University, John Allen Paulos describes the differences between statistics and stories:

[T]here is a tension between stories and statistics, and one…


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