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Top 10 UX Myths

"Al Gore invented the Internet. Drinking alcohol keeps your body warm. You won’t get pregnant if you stand on your head after … well, you get the idea. Myths are those hard-and-fast rules that often start as a plausible idea or once-off observation that grow and distill into ‘common knowledge’ as they virtually spread. I know I’ve believed a few of these. I’ve also asked my UX expert Twitter friends for their UX Myths – and they have many!
So, let me entertain you with a list I compiled of my favorite ‘User Experience myths’. Then perhaps you, like many UX folks, will have some myths of your own to share …"

Short summary via guuui.com:

- If the Design is a Good One, You Don't Need to Test It
- People Don't Change
- Design to Avoid Clicks
- UX Design Stops at the Edges of the Product
- If you Have Great Search, You Don't Need Great Information Architecture
- Can't Decide? Make it a Preference
- Design Always with Implementation in Mind
- People Know What They Like
- People Read
- The Design Has to be Original

Crisis antidote?

Calm-vs-exited

Keep calm or get exited? :)

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Nowadays, of course, it would be farmed out to an expensive communications agency. Back in the spring of 1939, it was an anonymous civil servant who was entrusted with finding the slogan for a propaganda poster intended to comfort and inspire the populace should, heaven forbid, the massed armies of Nazi Germany ever cross the Channel.

This was the third in a series. The first, designed to stiffen public resolve ahead of likely gas attacks and bombing raids, was printed in a run of more than a million and read: Your Courage, Your Cheerfulness, Your Resolution Will Bring Us Victory. The second, identically styled, stated: Freedom Is In Peril.

From August 1939, both posters began appearing all over the country, on billboards, in shops, on railway platforms. The third, though, was held back. This one was for the real crisis: invasion. A few may have made their way on to select officials' walls, but the vast majority of the British public never got to see it. This poster enjoined: Keep Calm And Carry On."

Nokia Maemo 5 promotion video

Vond dit demo filmpje errug gaaf! Ff kijken met geluid vol aan. Dit is het nieuwe mobile os van nokia. Moet het s60 platform gaan vervangen geloof ik?

Animatie is erg lekker gedaan, voelt allemaal super futuristisch.

Wat je kan zien in dit filmpje van het os zelf vind ik er ook goed uit zien. Goed gebruik van de beschikbare ruimte en veel gestures om makkelijk te navigeren.

Wat ik enorm komisch vind is dat je de indruk krijgt dat de hand heel hard 'klikt' iedere keer. De grap is dat dit niet voor de duidelijkheid is, maar ook echt moet omdat het een resistive scherm is (werkt met druk ipv geleiding zoals de iphone) waardoor je dus echt je best moet doen om iets aan te klikken :' )