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Time flies and weeks have passed since we have last shared with you our favorite articles on UX. In the meanwhile, there was a lot of interesting stuff out there again and we would like to share our top UX links from the month June with you. If you haven’t already read them, we hope you enjoy them as much as we did. And don’t forget to let us know what you think.
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As community manager and writer at Usabilla, I stumble over quite a number of interesting articles every day. Whenever I read something interesting, I tweet or retweet it in the hope that more people will see and enjoy it. Now, twitter can be a tricky thing. People easily miss your stuff, especially if you are not persistent enough to tweet the same link over and over.
Today it’s the last day of the month and we would like to share with you our favorite articles from this month. Let me give you just a brief summary on each of them and then let you decide for yourself if they are worth your time. I bet they are, though.
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An interesting piece on buttons on O’Reilly Radar: Buttons were an inspired UI hack, but now we’ve got better options
Extensive argument on How Print Design is the Future of Interaction
In Why Designers Still Can’t Think Joe Marianek looks at modern design education
Another addition to the mobile Web discussion on Smashing Magazine: Why We Shouldn’t Make Separate Mobile Websites
Chris Granger is working on Light Table, a realtime IDE much like the prototype Brett Victor used in his ‘Inventing on Principle talk’. You can find both the Light Table promo video and Brett Victor’s talk below.
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Usability Geek delivers as always with a nice piece on Colour: User Experience and Psychology
Gabe of @macdrifter fame writes about User Aware Apps
We reposted 2 articles from Joshua and Joshua of 52 weeks of UX: What does it mean to be simple? and Is UX the Key to a Long-Lasting Bussiness?. Both highly recommended.
Carolyn Knight and Jessica Glaser wrote about When Typography Speaks Louder Than Words on Smashing Magazine
Small Surfaces brings you 8 Rules for Effective Touchscreen Interactions
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Last week brought us some interesting articles!
Wells Riley made a beautifully designed, one-page site about design for startups called Startups, this is how design works.
Alex Sexton on The UX of Language.
A new chapter in the encyclopedia of http://interaction-design.org about Visual Aesthetics in human-computer interaction and interaction design.
A post on Simurai about Icon Sharpness.
@hanaschank writes about UX design as a two conversation in UX Magazine. She uses this video by Google Analytics as an example:
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Paul Boag (@boagworld) on selecting fonts in Photoshop with Font Picker
Justin Mifsud (@justinmifsud) from Usability Geek with an excellent and lenghty piece on beautiful navigation in portfolio websites (on Smashing Magazine)
Also on Smashing Magazine: Aarron Walter (@aarron) with a sample chapter called Redesigning with Personality from the upcoming printed Smashing Book #3. We really were a fan of Aarron latest book Designing for Emotion, so we’re curious about this one!
Jeff Atwood (@codinghorror) hopes pagination on websites will end and explains why
Sascha Greif (@sachagreif) wonders why startups can’t find designers on The Next Web
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And our favorites from last week are:
Braden Kowitz (@kowitz) is an interaction designer at Google Ventures. In Story-centered design: Hacking your brain to think like a user he explains how he stopped designing screens and only works with storyboards, prototypes and screencasts for interactive products now. A really nice article, and by far the most retweeted and favorited external link we tweeted last week.
@AndrewTurrel talks about how The Extinction of the Scrollbar changes the User Experience of many products in UX Magazine.
@PunchCut is a design agency that wrote up a technical but nonetheless informative guide — Shrink to Fit: Designing Scalable User Interfaces
@KirillCool explains why those icon fonts aren’t all that — About those vector icons
@SachaGreif made a very nice ebook on UI design for web apps — Step by Step UI Design
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And our favorites this week are:
Stephanie Rieger goes beyond the ‘mobile users are in a hurry’ dogma: Mobile users don’t do that
A 7 step guide to website usability on Usability Geek.
An original and cute design theory presentation: How to design for bears
Luke W gives a breakdown of the most popular multi-device layout patterns
The elements of a clean web design on Six Revisions
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An extensive guide to responsive navigations patterns by Brad Frost
16 interviewing tips to get better data from user studies by Michael Margolis on the excellent Design Staff
Martha Rotter tells us about Designing Engaging And Enjoyable Long-Form Reading Experiences on Smashing Magazine
UX Magazine featured an article on better use of paper in UX design by Marcin Treder
Font Awesome is a really nice free iconic font for use with Twitter Bootstrap
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Nir Eyal explains how a lot of the success of curent startups depend on being addictive: Habits Are The New Viral: Why Startups Must Be Behavior Experts
The W3C has a subset of the full HTML5 specification available that is geared towards Web authors. All the user-agent implementation details are ommited, making it an excellent reference document for writers and front-enders concerned with having semantically valid markup.
Lis Hubert talks about the de-evolution of UX design.
Intercom’s Eoghan McCabe shows how stupid emails that can’t be replied to are: no reply is better than no-reply.
A nice overview of biases and irrational behaviour on PsyBlog. How The Mind Really Works: 10 Counterintuitive Psychology Studies