User Experience Design
- 37signals
- A design house, demonstrating a nice way to show case studies
- Adaptive Path User Experience Consulting
- Consulting firm of the heavy-weights ... or at least most copious ... publishers in the field. Some of the best stuff, though, is on their personal sites. Still, the next time a spotty programmer tries to quote Jakob Neilsen at you (as the only guy they've ever heard of), you can point him to these generous people as representing the current vanguard of ideas.
- A List Apart Experience Design
- Nice explanation of what is Experience Design without resorting to rainbow colours.
- Good Experience
- The information architecture is poor if you want to read anything but the current stuff (hint: it's at the bottom). But the stuff is good.
- UXblog HannaHodge
- Good blog, also checkout the excellent resources.
- Evolution of a Homepage - WebReference.com
- Excellent illustrated discussion tracing the evolution of the WebReference.com homepage all the way back to the mists of Internet time, or 1995.
- Brenda Laurel
- Interesting Ideas, note the Recent Talks section. (And nice to see someone with a life outside work impacting their site.)
- Emotional Branding Through Digital Storytelling
- Interview with the late Dana Atchley about the importance of storytelling. Still sadly under utilised.
- A List Apart: The Narrative Web
- Discusses the importance of narrative in developing good web experiences.
- Stopdesign
- Design Blog from the design house of the same name.
- Experience Required
- Interview with B. Joseph Pine II on the experience economy.
- IA v Customer Experience
- Discussion from Goodexperience contrasting Information Architecture from Customer Experience.
- In search of the experience economy
- Extract from the book (see next).
- The Experience Economy
- The book - "Work Is Theatre & Every Business a Stage", indeed ... just all to often a rather drab one.
- What is Experiential Marketing
- Yeap, another book about the E thing, this one not afraid to bandy phases such as "strategic experiential modules".
- The Experience Economy Reading List Version 3.0
- Extensive reading list, categorised, and with short reviews.
- Retail Therapy Not At The Touch Of A Button
- MORI poll from spring 2001 relating the joys of actually going to the shops.
- Europe set to Out-Shop America
- e-Commerce is still turning in big growth, even during the economic downturn, and the Internet globalises further.
- Understanding the Web as Media
- Oooops, rainbow colour alert! Good categorisation of the web. (That yellow word on a white background is "Database" ... yes, it hurts.)
- AIGA Experience Design
- Fair Experience Design primer with some helpful resources, especially (in presentations) a discussion of all the trendy job titles by practitioners of their craft.
- Atlas Namedroppings Cool URLs
- As good a random sample of sites as it gets, trash and wonderful and occasionally wonderful trash. If you need examples, here they are. Just drift into it and enjoy chance encounters with happy accident.
- Gabion Retained Writing on Architecture & Design)
- Excellent and accessible writing on architectural design, well illustrated.
- Interaction and Narrative Masterclass
- Nicely done presentation taking examples from games as well as websites.
- Nathan Shedroff's World
- Here come the rainbows again, with added tiny writing. You need to know about it, but not as good as it should be.
- Sound and Brand on the Web
- Discuses the tricky use of sound in branding on the web.
- The Dialectizer
- Yes, it converts phrases into accents. Dis is a bit siwwy, but I wike it, says Elmer Fudd.
- Zoomerang
- A nice survey creation tool.
