Lesenswertes vom 24.09.2009

Makin’ Whoopee: Who hijacked “user experience”? | SensoryMetrics
"We’ve always believed the value of good experience design was under-appreciated in the product world. Over the past year, it seems the pendulum has swung. It’s become a business cliche [...] User Experience is now used as a marketing tool."
A shorthand for designing UI flows | 37signals
"Flows are just as important to good interfaces as individual screens are. Customers don’t land on screens from out of nowhere. Specific sequences of actions lead customers through your app as they try to accomplish their tasks.
But as important as they are, flows are hard to communicate during the design process. Drawing out every state of a flow is too time-consuming. And drawings become instantly outdated as screens change. [...]
Working on 37signals Accounts has recently raised this issue of communicating flows for me. [...] So I’ve scratched the itch with a simple shorthand."

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