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Neuro Web Design - a book review

This review is about the book Neuro Web Design - what makes users click by Susan M. Weinschenk. As the titleĀ  suggests this book is supposed to be about what web designers and web marketeers can learn from ‘recent’ insightss from psychology to build websites that are better up for their tasks. I.E. how do [...]

Why does design exist

As I pointed out in my previous post, I think that there is still something missing on all the great diagrams that are already made about design. And that is “why bother about design in the first place”. I placed my writings in a nice little diagram that hopefully explains what I meant, but also [...]

Why this blog

Why this blog?
Firstly this blog is here to force myself to order my own thoughts, to enable myself to exist in time if you wish. Foucault wrote more on this). A secondary goal is to become more able in both the structuring of thoughts and the use of English.
Why this blog
One more the question now [...]

What is UXD

I came across quite some sideshows, some arguing quit strongly against calling the artist formally known as interaction designer Tafkid now a user experience designer.
Are You An User Experience Designer
Although i do agree with the key ingredients of this presentation, I also think one should avoid wasting ones time on defining meaning of words or [...]

Emotional Design

Emotional design, or should I say, emotional technology, sounds like a concept or thought up by hippies, or some Japanese scientist on a remote island (Aibo anyone?). Though in his book Emotinal Design Donald A. Norman explains that, although most technology is without any soul, we humans, trained for social interaction, are capable of putting [...]

uxdpxn - A new blog about User Experience Design

I’ve been reading quite a lot about uxd lately, and I’m hoping that I can use this blog to share my ideas with you.
Sjors Timmer