Boxes and Arrows
Flow. Recently the web design community has been eating up the secrets of game design. The Gamification trend merely borrowed simple game mechanics, from badges to progress bars. But now designers are looking more closely at core game design principles like design for flow and mastery, blending them with our old friend, ease of use.
By Christina Wodtke, 7 June 2012
UX Magazine
Emotional Design.
It's not enough to just be usable—products actually have to make people happy.
I'm a devotee of TED talks. I was once assigned to watch several TED talks to deconstruct what made each a good or a bad presentation. TED topics are wide-ranging, though they generally relate to the categories that make up the "TED" acronym: Technology, Entertainment, and Design.
By Dana Chisnell, 16 June 2010