While I was searching for brands that are committed to user experience as well as being immediately recognizable (Mozilla, Disney) I browsed my way to an article that I've previously read called Brand Experience in User Experience Design by Steve Baty (with whom I've had a few conversations about how corporations implement user experience design and experience design.)

The article goes into detail about how brands can benefit from implementing user experience related processes. The link to the article is: >>> Read More

Over the last 2 years since I was introduced to experience design, I have noticed a lot of online content but haven't really seen printable materials about user experience (UX) that are printable and suited for notice boards found at schools and similar hallways in professional spaces (offices, conferences, etc...)

I posted a question in the UX group on the brazen careerist asking about what an A4/letter sized flyer on UX could contain. >>> Read More

While researching on ways to improve the online shopping experience, I came across the following article: http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/92/shoppingcart.html The article returns to review findings they arrived at in 2002. One thing I noticed was the first recommendation: Calling a Shopping Cart anything but a Shopping Cart. The article writers do clarify in the second paragraph that it is ok to call a shopping cart by another name as long as customers are familiar with the term. eg. shopping trolley is a more suitable alternative name in the U.K. The seventh recommendation: Make it easy to remove items from the shopping cart. >>> Read More

http://drupal.org/node/219584 is the thread

The title probably sounds alien for users new to Drupal so before I explain what the improvement is about, I'll explain what a code patch is in the CMS called Drupal.

In Drupal, (a CMS or more accurately a web construction toolkit) is constantly updated and improved every day. As with most software, a collection of improvements is released as a new version such as Drupal 5.1, Drupal 5.2 etc..

In between each release, the software code in Drupal is improved by creating and then applying what is known as a code patch.

In Drupal 5.6 and Drupal 6.0 when a user goes to a page and clicks a link called configure on the following page: >>> Read More

While looking at spoilers for The new Sarah Connor Chronicles TV show (the one based on the Terminator series) I came across http://spoilertv.blogspot.com I have to say the theme in use is impressive. It has Vista Style Black Menu Items for what could be called local tasks in Drupal (Submit, Cancel etc) and blue buttons for regular menu links.

Edit: The theme has been changed and so no the spoilertv.blogspot.com does not look the same >>> Read More