6:00 for a 6:30 start
This is a smaller event than usual but it will be a good one.
Jan Srutek: Information visualisation – more than just eye candy
Information Visualisation (InfoVis) is a domain that has gained a lot of attention recently. The mass media seem to have fallen in love with information design too – feeding us with [...]
Event: Information visualisation mini event
Event: UX Brighton 2010
After successfully running UX Brighton for two years, we have decided to turn one of our meet-ups into a full blown conference. So, I’m pleased to announce UX Brighton 2010 – a conference with an emphasis on designing for behaviour. This will be a one day event at the Sallis Benney Theatre on September 13th, [...]
Event: SuperGoogleAnalyticsExpialidocious
Time: 6:00pm for a 6:30 start.
Many companies use analytics as a starting point for user research but get stumped when it comes to gaining genuine understanding about why users do what they do.
For July’s event we aim to show how applications like Google Analytics can be used to both formulate and answer questions. We’ll also [...]
UXBri blogs
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Mark Kirby - Mobile Developer
Mobile app development trends – what languages should you be learning?
Mobile app development is a minefield, there’s so many different platforms, and different things to consider. I decided now was a good time to run through the market today, as of July 2010 and try to identify what you as a developer should be learning, or what business owners should be looking at. The quick [...]
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90 Percent of Everything - by Harry Brignull
Dark Patterns: dirty tricks designers use to make people do stuff
Image credit: Paul McDonald Normally we think of bad design as consisting of laziness, mistakes, or school-boy errors. We refer to these sorts of design patterns as Antipatterns. However, there’s another kind of bad design pattern, one that’s been crafted with great attention to detail, and a solid understanding of human psychology, to trick users [...]
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90 Percent of Everything - by Harry Brignull
The Times update their paywall UI, and guess what…?
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about the new Times.co.uk paywall, asking “If you were going to design a paywall, is this how you’d do it?” Well, I’ve just noticed they’ve iterated the design, and guess what? It’s in line with many of your suggestions. First let’s look at the old design: [...]
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90 Percent of Everything - by Harry Brignull
Wow, UX Brighton 2010 Conference, 13 September!
Danny and James have really pulled a rabbit out of a hat with the upcoming UX Brighton 2010 Conference. What a great line-up! Rory Sutherland: you may have seen his TED talk, Rory is Vice-Chairman of Ogilvy Group UK. Eric Reiss: heard of him maybe? He’s one of the most well known figures in European [...]
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90 Percent of Everything - by Harry Brignull
Is Freelancing the Future of the UX Research Consultancy Industry?
People are sometimes surprised that UX research consultants are charged out at so much more than developers – the day rate can be 50% to 100% higher. So are UX research agencies more profitable as a result? Surprisingly, the answer is often no. When you visit a top UX agency in the heart of London, [...]
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90 Percent of Everything - by Harry Brignull
What do you use for portable wall space?
Image credit: Daylight Design The trouble with being a User Experience specialist is the amount of wall space you need. In an ideal world, you’d set up a war room for each project, where all your materials can stay permanently stuck on the walls. Most of the time, that’s not possible – other people in [...]
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90 Percent of Everything - by Harry Brignull
The Frankfurt Kitchen
In Episode 2 of the BBC’s excellent “Genius of Design” series, (available on Vimeo), there is an interesting section on the Frankfurt Kitchen. Designed by Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, the Frankfurt Kitchen was a response to the need for cost-efficient housing in Germany after WW1. The Frankfurt Kitchen in use (from Genius of Design, Ep.2) What’s amazing [...]
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90 Percent of Everything - by Harry Brignull
If you were going to design a paywall, is this how you’d do it?
Imagine you’ve been hired in to design a paywall for well known newspaper, with a brief to deliver the best sign-up rates possible. Is this how you’d do it? Clicking any link in on the homepage of thetimes.co.uk triggers a lightbox. Most of the lightbox real estate is dedicated to a photo of a military [...]
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90 Percent of Everything - by Harry Brignull
Who actually reads 90percentofeverything.com?
I sometimes wonder who’s out there reading this blog. I’m getting to know a few of you in the comments and email exchanges but the vast majority of you are silent lurkers who I only know are out there via analytics, backtweets, and my Feedburner subscriber count. In the interests of getting to know my [...]
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90 Percent of Everything - by Harry Brignull
“Design thinking is a nonsensical phrase that deserves to die” – Don Norman
Don Norman at IIT Design Research Conference 2010: “You gotta be careful too, because there are a lot of these research methods, like the rapid prototyping, like the ideation, like the brainstorming methods, like the ethnography, and so on, there is actually no real evidence that it makes a difference. Apple computer is a good [...]
RT: @uxbri - We have just done the numbers and we think UX Brighton 2010 will be the biggest Ux Event in the UK < Sweet!!
@JimbobC Our monthly events are small and personal. For Ux Brighton 2010 we didn't want something just for for in crowd.
@uxbri Awesome! :D
