usability

Screw Interface Patterns

Allow me to begin by saying that this is an opinion piece. I'm not doing research into the matter, but rather boiling down trends—the good and bad—as I see 'em.

And they're mostly bad. Otherwise it'd be boring.

A Pattern Language

Pattern obsession has come to user interface design by way of software architecture, by way of a book about real (brick and mortar, natch) architecture written by a man named Christopher Alexander.

Jelly! Talk Excerpt 1: My Crusade, Twistori, & Elemental Design

This is the first in a series of 2 or 3 posts for the transcript of my Jelly! talk from SXSW. Jelly! talks are put on by Yahoo! and Jelly!, the casual coworking movement. This one was held in the lovely Austin coworking space of Conjunctured. Here's a link to the video.

My name is Amy, I would say that I have a mission.

Why we need interaction designers, not Photoshop jockeys

This article came up on my linkdar recently: Future Practice Interview: Bill Scott
. (I don't know why its title is so un-explanatory.)

The interviewer (Lou Rosenfeld) talks to Bill Scott, who heads up "interface engineering" at Netflix.

The $64,491 question

Lou asks the driving question of the interview (from my viewpoint, anyway): "What do engineers wish designers understood?"

Your Questions: When do you do UI & Ajaxify?

Have I not answered your question yet? Don't worry, I plan to get to all of them. I suck at email, but I'm learning the discipline to manage all this stuff. Please bear with!

Today's question is one I get a lot, actually. It's not quite the same as the UI workflow question I answered earlier this week, so I wanted to tackle it separately.

I suspect that Chris Hartjes is humoring me, but he writes in:

Your Questions: Amy's UI Workflow

Aaand... we're back to our regularly scheduled programming! Sorry for the delay. I am still working out how to keep my grubby mitts on all the balls I'm trying to juggle at once. It doesn't help that some of those balls are actually swords, doused in gasoline, and lit on fire.

Javier Vázquez from Switzerland writes:

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