Design
Design vs User Experience
One of the topics that keeps popping up around the office is that of design vs user experience. At first glance you might consider them to be the same issue – both involve presenting data and actions to the user in a way that they find appealing and easy to use. While they address the same issue, I think that these practices do so with a similar, yet different, goal in mind. The best differentiation might be to say that design is focusing on making the application visually appealing while user experience focuses on making the application easy to use.
Book Review: A Book Apart
A Book Apart is a series of 6 books aimed at ‘people who make websites’. These books are all relatively short (about 100 pages) and easy to read. At the time of writing they have a holiday special going – 30% off if you buy the whole series.