I’m not much of a User Interface geek (that is, I enjoy a pointless but entertaining way of getting around a site as much as anyone), but as a web designer I’m always interested on how to convey maximum amounts of information/direction to users as simply and cleanly as possible.
So I thought this was [...]

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Last Thursday, Organic hosted a panel discussion on how to fit the User Experience practice into an Agile project cycle. For more information on what Agile is, see the Agile Manifesto or check out the Wikipedia entry.
So, Why is This an Interesting Topic for User Experience Professionals? With a trend to quick iterations [...]

The President of the United States responded to questions from the public in a live YouTube interview at the White House on Monday, February 1st, at 1:45 p.m EST. When all was said and done, it brought in almost 800,000 votes on 14,464 questions from 64,968 questions. Not bad, but I would have expected much more [...]

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Your client has something great to share, and they want to prove that they’re listening to consumers. So you set up Twitter and Facebook accounts, and then hope for as many followers as possible. Right?
Well, according to Clive Thomson’s Wired article “In Praise of Obscurity,” maybe not. He writes:
“When you go from [...]