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Introducing the Leap (by leapmotion)

With Leap it’s about time till we see a virtual Theremin app and then how you say the differnce of a virtual and a real Theremin?

How UX works in Scrum

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UX As Product Strategy: Differentiation in a Crowded Market

Hipmunk, a startup in San Francisco, entered the crowded online travel search market in 2010. Their approach was novel: show all the most relevant results on a single page, and help users visualize the tradeoffs between the options. In doing so they bypassed the traditional product strategies in travel search, which relied on saturating the user with either features or ads. Adam Goldstein, Hipmunk’s co-founder and CEO, will explain the ideas and execution behind Hipmunk’s unique take on travel search, and how a singular focus on UX has given Hipmunk the most fanatical following of any travel search site in the last decade.

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3 lures of complexity:

1. a fear of missing something
2. a fear users will not understand
3. a desperate desire to convince

3 questions that encourage simplicity:

1. How many people are asking for it?
2. Who is asking for it?
3. How will it affect others?

3 steps to achieving simplicity:

1. Remove elements
2. Hide elements
3. Shrink elements

More on Boagworld

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User center design

THE CENTRAL PREMISE OF USER CENTRED DESIGN IS THAT THE BEST DESIGNED PRODUCTS AND SERVICES RESULT FROM UNDERSTANDING THE NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE WHO WILL USE THEM. —Design Council

(via Paz)

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Little Things Mean a Lot. So little as a YouTube indicator. Reminder Try to put the video non stop for the whole night .

YouTube - Nyan Cat Progress Indicator on YouTube

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See it in action here

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As you already know Angry Birds is successful. If you still asking why is successful here are the main points that Charles L. Mauro found in his cognitive teardown of the user experience of Angry Birds:

• Simple yet engaging interaction concept
• Cleverly managed response time
• Short-term memory management
• Mystery
• How things sound
• How things look

For an in depth analysis of the points above read the full post by clicking the link below (good read):

Why Angry Birds is so successful and popular: a cognitive teardown of the user experience

infographic by adaircameron

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