http://www.jirijerabek.net Jiri Jerabek on Interaction Design, User Experience and HCI Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:31:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.jirijerabek.net/a-few-notes-on-lean-ux-talk-by-jeff-gothelf-london-ia-february-2012/ http://www.jirijerabek.net/a-few-notes-on-lean-ux-talk-by-jeff-gothelf-london-ia-february-2012/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:31:57 +0000 Jiri Jerabek http://www.jirijerabek.net/?p=208 Continue reading →]]> http://www.jirijerabek.net/a-few-notes-on-lean-ux-talk-by-jeff-gothelf-london-ia-february-2012/feed/ 1 http://www.jirijerabek.net/11-weeks-at-uclic/ http://www.jirijerabek.net/11-weeks-at-uclic/#comments Sun, 04 Dec 2011 23:04:44 +0000 Jiri Jerabek http://www.jirijerabek.net/?p=200 Continue reading →]]> http://www.jirijerabek.net/11-weeks-at-uclic/feed/ 0 http://www.jirijerabek.net/design-jam-london-4/ http://www.jirijerabek.net/design-jam-london-4/#comments Sat, 03 Dec 2011 23:26:28 +0000 Jiri Jerabek http://www.jirijerabek.net/?p=184 Continue reading →]]> http://www.jirijerabek.net/design-jam-london-4/feed/ 0 http://www.jirijerabek.net/to-boldly-go/ http://www.jirijerabek.net/to-boldly-go/#comments Fri, 05 Aug 2011 07:58:23 +0000 Jiri Jerabek http://www.jirijerabek.net/?p=165 Continue reading →]]> http://www.jirijerabek.net/to-boldly-go/feed/ 2 http://www.jirijerabek.net/emotional-design-why-we-love-or-hate-everyday-things/ http://www.jirijerabek.net/emotional-design-why-we-love-or-hate-everyday-things/#comments Tue, 19 Apr 2011 07:00:18 +0000 Jiri Jerabek http://www.jirijerabek.net/?p=147 The Design of Everyday Things – and I have to confess that all those who recommended this book were right. For me it was a breaking point, a milestone in my career. After I finished reading The DOET, I started looking elsewhere – on books by Alan Cooper, Jeff Raskin and Dan Saffer, but soon I came across a nice review of another book by Donald Norman, Emotional Design – Why we love (or hate) everyday things. Psychology in design is a huge theme today and while you can find tens of interesting articles advocating the emotion and user experience in design on the web, Norman's Emotional Design was the most complete and enlightening summary I have read on the theme. It was also interesting to compare Norman's and Cooper's approach and I think the Emotional Design perfectly compliments what Cooper says about dancing bearware in his books. Although the book is not such an eye-opener as The Design of Everyday Things, it's still excellent and I believe every designer should have it on a shelf. Norman writes in plain language, uses lots of examples and refers to some quite enlightening researches. If you are a designer and you haven't read Emotional Design yet, please do yourself and your users a favour – get it and read it. Continue reading →]]> http://www.jirijerabek.net/emotional-design-why-we-love-or-hate-everyday-things/feed/ 0 http://www.jirijerabek.net/interesting-articles-on-design-iii/ http://www.jirijerabek.net/interesting-articles-on-design-iii/#comments Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:00:05 +0000 Jiri Jerabek http://www.jirijerabek.net/?p=131 Continue reading →]]> http://www.jirijerabek.net/interesting-articles-on-design-iii/feed/ 0 http://www.jirijerabek.net/march-northern-user-experience-meetup/ http://www.jirijerabek.net/march-northern-user-experience-meetup/#comments Tue, 05 Apr 2011 14:20:02 +0000 Jiri Jerabek http://www.jirijerabek.net/?p=125 Continue reading →]]> http://www.jirijerabek.net/march-northern-user-experience-meetup/feed/ 0 http://www.jirijerabek.net/emotions-in-design/ http://www.jirijerabek.net/emotions-in-design/#comments Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:00:55 +0000 Jiri Jerabek http://test.jirijerabek.net/blog/?p=46 Continue reading →]]> http://www.jirijerabek.net/emotions-in-design/feed/ 0 http://www.jirijerabek.net/design-by-committee-how-doggie-and-pussycat-made-a-cake/ http://www.jirijerabek.net/design-by-committee-how-doggie-and-pussycat-made-a-cake/#comments Sun, 13 Feb 2011 09:00:39 +0000 Jiri Jerabek http://test.jirijerabek.net/blog/?p=86 Continue reading →]]> http://www.jirijerabek.net/design-by-committee-how-doggie-and-pussycat-made-a-cake/feed/ 0 http://www.jirijerabek.net/interaction-design-org-encyclopedia/ http://www.jirijerabek.net/interaction-design-org-encyclopedia/#comments Sun, 06 Feb 2011 09:00:28 +0000 Jiri Jerabek http://test.jirijerabek.net/blog/?p=39 Recently, the new Interaction-Design.org Encyclopedia was launched. I used to read articles on Interaction-Design.org for some time and I'm delighted to see that the guys from The Interaction-Design.org Foundation decided to transform the list of articles as it used to be to a library of entries written by experts in the particular fields. The entries are coupled with insightful commentaries and videos. "Experience or User Experience is not about technology, industrial design, or interfaces. It is about creating a meaningful experience through a device." - Marc Hassenzahl One of the recent entries I went through was User Experience and Experience Design by Marc Hassenzahl – and I can say it was the best article explaining the philosophy of UX I have ever read. Continue reading →]]> http://www.jirijerabek.net/interaction-design-org-encyclopedia/feed/ 0