“We’ve only just scratched the surface of touchscreen interface design. Done right, touch allows us to create the illusion of working directly with content, instead of through the abstract metaphors of menus, buttons, tabs, and assorted “administrative debris” that we’ve adopted over the last 30 years of desktop interfaces.” Amen.

Duration: 48 minutes

Josh Clark on Twitter
Josh’s “Buttons Are a Hack” post
Webstock 2011

Nate Bolt (of bolt|peters and author of Remote Research) talks about the hows and whys of remote user research. (Webvisions 2011.)

Duration: 17 minutes

Nate Bolt on Twitter
bolt|peters
Remote Research book
Webvisions
Nate’s slides

“The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent in an unprecedented way, with unlimited opportunities. But does democratized culture mean better art or is true talent instead drowned out? This is the question addressed by PressPausePlay, a documentary film containing interviews with some of the world’s most influential creators of the digital era.”

Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes

presspauseplay.com
PressPausePlay on Twitter
PressPausePlay on Facebook
PressPausePlay on IMDb
House of Radon

Tomer Sharon (Google) interviews Jared Spool (User Interface Engineering) about getting stakeholder buy-in for user research for his book, It’s Our Research.

Duration: just over half an hour

User Interface Engineering
It’s Our Research book site
Jared Spool on Twitter
Tomer Sharon on Twitter

Scott Berkun talks at the 2011 HIVE event about how to give and receive criticism.

Duration: 20 minutes

Scott Berkun
HIVE 2011

“Little Printer lives in your home, bringing you news, puzzles and gossip from your friends.” Somewhat surprisingly, this is not design fiction, but an actual product that you can buy. How lovely.

Duration: just two minutes

Little Printer
BERG London

Bill DeRouchey shows some examples of how they do things at Simple, in order to illustrate their design philosophy.

Duration: 45 minutes

Bill DeRouchey
Simple
Portland Creative Mornings

Duration: 15 minutes

Tomer Sharon (user researcher at Google)
Paul Adams (Product Manager at Facebook)
It’s Our Research

In conjunction with Rosenfeld Media, we’re very pleased to announce the winners of the UX Story competition. Entrants were asked to tweet – in 140 characters or less! – why storytelling is such a powerful tool for UX practitioners. Throughout June the responses came in and, after a tough judging task, the winners were chosen.

5 winners will receive a copy of Whitney Quesenbery and Kevin Brooks’ new book: ‘Storytelling for User Experience‘ from Rosenfeld Media; and all 12 winners will receive an exclusive Webinar with Whitney and Kevin.

Thank you to everyone who entered the event, and to all those who helped promote it! And now, the winners:

Book + Webinar

Every interaction is a story, with the user as the “star.”  This appeals to our human need to be at the center of every experience.
@dgelman

Storytelling is a two-way mirror. You see yourself reflected in the experience of others.
@nathangibbs

Storytelling is the way we learn and explain the world.
@argonaut

Stories take our audiance on a jouney and enable leaps of faith.
@MarkEhrhardt

With storytelling we give our stereotyped users a soul
@mcmarcos

Webinar prizes

Storytelling is how we make sense of the world: re-imagining our everyday lives as an experience to be shared with others.
@otrops

Stories help us to translate real life.
@franxo

Stories make #UX personal. They remind us that everything we make is made for a real person.
@ianeverdell

Stories help us empathize and experience another person's condition. Stories appeal to our emotions and drive us to action.
@balchenn

A good story will evoke emotion and the listener is able to relate to it on a deeper level – as humans, we remember emotions best
@Mike_me_up

Stories have the ability to change the way we view and interact with our world!
@christiansaylor

Stories make things meaningful, moving and memorable
@iaexperience

Congratulations to the winners, and thank you for entering! [Winners: we need your email address so we can contact you about the prizes. Please email stevebaty at gmail dot com]