Kantega nailed it with this video, what sort of UX designer are you?
Category: IA/UX
Dark Pattern: checkweathertoday.com
Shame on me for clicking on the first link of a Google search results page–I should know better.
What I got was not Weather Underground but some other site that wanted to install a browser extension then used some colorful trickery to entice me to install after I clicked on cancel.
Sketching in the Browser
html-sketchapp is a tool that creates Sketch stencils from HTML–very cool. Tools like this are closing the gap between design artifacts and the products they describe. I played around with html-sketchapp a bit, and it works quite well.
Mark Dalgleish’s article about Sketching in the Browser is the best one I’ve read about why this convergence of design and development tools is important. It also tells the tale of the journey that led to the creation of html-sketchapp.
UX Matters: Avoiding Common Prototyping Mistakes
I must admit that I’ve made all of these mistakes at one time or another….
Stephen Hay in Sketch and Destroy:
Sometimes we present ourselves with the illusion that we’re doing something important. But the biggest waste of time is doing that which need not be done at all.