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Guiding Principles for UX Designers

"Guiding principles" are the broad philosophy or fundamental beliefs that steer an organization, team or individual's decision making, irrespective of the project goals, constraints, or resources.

I have collected a set of guiding principles for user experience designers, to encourage behaviors that I believe are necessary to being a successful practitioner, as well as a set of guiding principles for experience design—which I think anyone who touches a product used by humans should strive to follow

Source: uxmag.com Posted by

bee 771 days, 4 hours, 19 minutes ago

Tags: design, Usability category: Usability & Design

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10 Best Intranets of 2010 (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

Intranet design is maturing and reaping the rewards of continuous quality improvement for traditional features, while embracing new trends like mobile access, emergency preparedness, and user/employee-contributed content.

The 10 best-designed intranets for 2010 are:

Source: www.useit.com Posted by

bee 774 days, 23 hours, 11 minutes ago

Tags: design, Features, Mobile, Quality, Social category: Management, Governance & Strategy

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Intranet design best practices start by tearing down department walls

Social networking, wikis and other Web 2.0 tools on intranets are snagging all the attention as enterprises try to breathe new life into their corporate portals. But the bricks and mortar still count. Ignoring intranet design best practices can spell death for even the most application-rich portals.

"The myth is that it's OK if you just reflect the way the company is put together," said Tim Walters, a senior analyst at Forrester Research, who recently authored the research note Five Myths That Hobble Your Intranet. "That [stance]… is almost bound to deliver a site structure that's a lost cause."

Source: searchunifiedcommunications.techtarget.com Posted by

bee 776 days, 15 hours, 48 minutes ago