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1. Death of a skeuomorph – or will the floppy disk outlast us all?

   10 May 2012

   Posted by Brendan 1 week, 1 day ago

   and filed under Design

   Skeuomorphs are all around us, but although they cause no harm one particular software skeuomorph has been marked for termination: the retro floppy-disk save icon. So far the attempts to kill it have been unsuccessful. Will it ever be destroyed?

   Tagged with

   • icons,
   • skeuomorphism,
   • ux

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2. How can survey questions better measure public opinion about Fred Goodwin?

   01 Feb 2012

   Posted by miriam on February 1st, 2012

   and filed under Uncategorized

   Design of research is critical to informed design. Let’s explore survey design using the example of measuring public opinion on Fred Goodwin’s knighthood…

   Tagged with

   • public opinion,
   • Surveys,
   • user research

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3. Pattern Recognition

   23 Jan 2012

   Posted by Brendan on January 23rd, 2012

   and filed under Design

   The human brain does a great job of pattern recognition: seeing something simple and extrapolating from it to imagine something far more complicated. As interaction designers this can work in our favour, but it’s also very easy to get wrong.

   Tagged with

   • patterns,
   • simpsons

   2 Comments »

4. UK UPA: UX Design and Online Communities review

   20 Jan 2012

   Posted by david.wharram on January 20th, 2012

   and filed under User Experience

   Last night Clarence Lee attended UK UPA: UX Design and Online Communities, here is his summary of the event

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