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• The Dos and Do Nots of Mobile Applications « Get Elastic Ecommerce Blog
  Der Artikel zeigt eine Reihe von guten Beispielen für mobile Applikationen.
• Das mobile Web aus Usabilitysicht | usabilityblog.de
  "Daher muss die Usability für mobile Websites noch mehr als die klassische Usability die Ziele der Nutzer und vor allem den mobilen Kontext mit all seinen Unwägbarkeiten und Einschränkungen berücksichtigen."
• Redesigning the Web for Touch Screens | Technology Review
  "In general, however, redesigning outdated websites "is going to be huge," says Jared Spool, founding principal of User Interface Engineering, a consulting firm based in North Andover, MA. But Spool believes the coming changes will be largely positive. "To me, the little interaction problems of how to react when a user touches something will work themselves out pretty fast," he says."
• Critique a Web Page in 30 Seconds or Less | ZURB
  "To develop an eye for what works on a website and what doesn't, there are few simple techniques that help you critique your website in 30 seconds or less."

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• iPad GUI PSD | Teehan+Lax
  "The PSD was constructed using vectors, so it’s fully editable and scalable. You’ll notice there are a few new UI elements as compared to the iPhone interface. The workable screen design is formatted to 768×1024 so anything you design in the Photoshop file can easily be brought over to the SDK."
• Apple iPad: Fully editable PSD by | deviantART
  "Fully editable Apple iPad in PSD format. Every element you see is editable via vector masks. Everything is scaleable."
• iPad Stencil for Omnigraffle | iA
  "This is the first version of an OmniGraffle template for folks designing iPad apps. It’s not complete; we plan to update it as we’re working on our own designs."
• iPhone / iPad icon PSD template | Cocoia Blog
  “I’ve decided to work with my good friend, Sean Patrick O‘Brien to create a PSD based off the exact overlays, outlines, and masks the iPhone and iPad OS use to mask icons.”

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• How UCD and Agile can live together | Johnny Holland
  "User Centered Design is the methodology by which you design a holistic product while considering the needs of stakeholders and users. Agile Development is a programming methodology and philosophy intended to overcome the challenges of the waterfall development process and to deliver clean and functional code. How can these two methodologies come together?"
• Bringing User Centered Design to the Agile Environment | Boxes and Arrows
  "In this article, I will describe Agile and attempt to illuminate a potential minefield for those who are swept up in the fervor of this development trend and want to jump in headlong. Then I will present how practices within User Centred Design (UCD) can mitigate the inherent risks of Agile and how these may be integrated within Agile development approaches."
• Agile Software Development Meets User-Centered Design | The Human Factor Advocate
  Summary of links on Agile and UCD
• Twelve emerging best practice for adding user experience work to agile software development | AgileProductDesign
  "I'm often asked "does user experience practice work with Agile development?" The short answer is: of course it does!"
• Agile Archives | Carbon Five Community
  "[W]e have a growing reading list of existing resources on the topic that I am posting here for you. If you have other resources for us, please share."

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