UX Discovery Session… by Gerard Dolan

Design + Branding:

• Gap Review
• A Passionately Detailed Logo Design Brief
• Saville and Kelly’s memorial to Tony Wilson
• Design Research Unit 1942-72
• Logan designs onedotzero 2010 identity
• New record sleeves from Brian Eno, COS/MES, Nick Jaguar, and more
• Toot Toot
• Newsweek Totally Busted!
• Say it ain’t Sears
• Quiz: The Face of a Brand

User Experience:

• An Event Apart: Anatomy of a Design Decision
• What makes a good UX Designer?
• Form and Information
• Adobe Museum of Digital Design
• Sign Up Forms Must Die!
• Mobile First! at Adobe
• Adobe Max 2010 Keynote Day 1: Welcome to the Revolution
• Mint Data opens in beta, lets users check how their local economy is doing
• So You Want To Be A Designer: Top 5 List
• Mint Data: Revealing the Financial Spending Habits of 4 Million People

Other Tangents:

• How Facebook Decides What To Put In Your News Feed?
• 5 Vintage Apple Products That Time Forgot
• focus : a simplicity manifesto in the age of distraction
• PayPal Introduces its Micropayment Solution
• Life Through A Window
• Why We Hack: The Benefits of Disobedience
• NPR’s 50 Great Voices

Design + Branding:

• Unevolved Brands
• Design Matters: Tina Roth Eisenberg
• Just My Type
• Design Chat: Bob Zeni
• Making the Case for Loyola Law School
• How to Have an Idea
• Change is a double edged sword
• The Gap flip flop flap: a rational counterview
• Moleskine’s Viral Strategy
• The Invincible Book Keeps Reinventing Itself

User Experience:

• Design Mind Salon with Bill Buxton
• Why I Deleted My Foursquare Account
• why so few UX researchers join early stage startups
• iPad: Scroll or Card?
• O’Reilly Webcast: 9 Myths About Building iPhone/iPad Apps
• Infographic of the Day: So What If You Leave Your Computer On All Night?
• UXLX Lisbon Portugal
• Usability Resources to Win Arguments
• Thinking of Navigation as Navigation
• Don’t “Submit” to landing page button text
• David Bowie, Earth’s Perpetual Persona Machine
• David Pogue on Flash on Devices

Other Tangents:

• Credit Cards Soon to Get a Makeover
• Incentive specialist is Canada’s fastest growing company
• Handy apps for salespeople
• Facebook, Beset With Privacy Concerns, Moves to Encrypt User IDs
• Chilean Miner Runs Into Copyright Spat With Chilean President Over Rescue Message
• App Store Politics: Dictatorship Versus Democracy

Design + Branding:

• Design Matters: Milton Glaser Podcast Interview
• His Nemesis Was Polio
• Secret Firmy Magazine
• Swissair Logo
• An Introduction to Graphic Design
• Bob & Roberta Smith designs the new D&AD Annual
• The New 99%: Notes on Our Redesign
• The Ultimate Swissair Fansite
• 10 Major Rebranding Disasters And What You Should Learn From Them
• Gap: Controlled Brand Demolition? No.

User Experience:

• Sony, Sony what have you done?
• Prototyping for Elmo’s Monster Maker iPhone App—IDEO
• Storylines: Visualizing the Interactions during Software Development
• Evolution of Websites: A Darwinian Tale
• Ryan’s talk at Future of Web Apps 2010, London
• Johnny Holland Welcomes Content Strategy
• Warm Gun: Designing for Engagement
• Design with Intent toolkit
• Digital Life: How Do our Digital Habits Compare Globally?
• Cognition: Behind the Music

Other Tangents:

• How to Get Noticed – and Get Hired!
• 15 useful WordPress Functions you probably don’t know
• Today’s Obsession: 100,000,000
• Money First

Design + Branding:

• Follow-up: Gap, Undo
• GAP to pull new logo
• The Inspiration Stream
• A List Apart: Findings from the Web Design Survey, 2009
• Redesigned: The new 37signals.com
• Packaging Beyond the Unboxing
• Review of Popular Web Font Embedding Services
• Did P. Diddy Rip Off a Famed Graphic Design by Pentagram?
• Gap Bows to Outcry, Nixes New Logo and Crowdsourcing
• New Work: Fashion Fringe 2010

User Experience:

• Research: A Non-Visual Scatterplot Representation for the Visually Impaired
• Placeholder text and user testing
• What Salesforce.com Chatter teaches us
• The Internet Is Still Not For Everyone
• Data Informed, Not Data Driven: The Subtext
• Visualisations in Service Design
• Interview with Ryan Singer
• Video Where What You See is What You Get
• Mobile Usability Testing Tip: Recording from Two Webcams
• Following links from Google Analytics

Other Tangents:

• Sonic Attention
• HOW-TO: Taking videoconferencing a step above Skype
• Tips and Examples For Writing Interesting Author Bio For Blogs

Design + Branding:

• What GAP did
• Introducing Web FontFonts
• WhatFontIs.com
• Changes of the Bat Symbol
• Antiquarian Is a Fresh Typeface From Dead Times
• Irish Design: It’s Magically Delicious [Slideshow]
• Gap on Disastrous New Logo: “We’re Open to Other Ideas
• The Gap Logo Debacle: A Half-Brained Mistake
• Real Fonts and Rendering: The New Elephant in the Room
• After Internet hazing, Gap logo goes away
• Designer Flow Chart Picks Typefaces For Your Projects

User Experience:

• Clear Reporting & Critical Thinking: Why User Experience Needs to Remember its Roots in Psychology
• visualizing.org: a New Shared and Free Resource on Data Visualization
• How to really make something = gold
• Rethinking the Mobile Web
• UX for system architects
• Journalism in the Age of Data: Visualization as a Storytelling Medium
• News Dots: Revealing which News Stories Connect
• Design Systems Need To Be Challenged
• Match the Tool to the Problem
• “Can experience be designed?” Yes. No. Wait, yes. But.

Other Tangents:

• 20 Best Websites to Learn and Master CSS
• Internet Pornographers Now Suing Pirates
• WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org
• Facebook’s ‘Like’ button raises privacy concerns
• Stan Lee Gets With The Spec Work Trend