The organizers of the IA conference are currently putting together the audio to fill in the blanks between slides. I'll update this post when it's available.

"The worst thing you can do to an adult is make them feel stupid" - at least that's what Roderick McMullen's uncle Fred says. Bad usability makes people feel stupid. Which keeps them from using your product or service. And while there are many quantitative and qualitative...

The 1 millionth video of the "shit xyz says" variety, and like most of the "me too" variants it's not as funny as the first one, but still offers some uncanny parallels to, err, my life. via Berliner Brandung

I'm trying to buy a frame. I've bought one from Rahmenwerk before for a lovely print by Gavin Harrison I got for Christmas a few years ago. Now I received another print by Harrison and would like a matching frame. Found it on the website, put it in the cart. Since I was...

I went to the Etsy conference last weekend which was extremely enjoyable - particularly Douglas Rushkoff's inspired rant about the digital world and peer-to-peer economies. etsy on livestream.com. Broadcast Live Free

via iakonferenz.org Stefanie Rieger from Yiibu  held this presentation a month ago at the German IA conference in Munich. Enjoy! By the way, if you like this presentation, there are some others around this topic on Yiibu's slideshare. via The Hot Strudel - thanks...

[ˈsætɪsˌfaɪs] I don't know how I can have worked in user expereince for over five years and not have come across this term! Basically, to "satisfice"describes the fact that users don't make optimal choices but click whatever seems reasonable first. The term itself is...

via news.designlanguage.com Taking all these greasy little fingerprints as a source of information is a great idea, and the photos George Kokkindis took have their own beauty (I wonder is the iDraft image a self-portrait ;-)?). Interestingly, the results mirror...

via vimeo.com Very cute video about what it actually is that a UX designer does.  (thanks for sharing, Robert!)