It’s not iteration if you only do it once.
— Jeff Patton
Neglecting to iterate equals misguided optimism
Interaction Design
Interaction design, often abbreviated IxD, is the practice of designing interactive digital products, environments, systems, and services.
The simple is not always best, but the best is always simple
Das Einfache ist das Beste. Aber das Beste ist immer einfache.
If you forget what you know, what is it?
If you forget what you know, what is it? Binoculars? Two circles occluding a horizontal line? Or Voicemail on a mobile phone?
A useful aide-mémoire when designing for inclusion, diversity or difference. You are not your user!
From an HCID Open Day talk by Ian Hosking.
Cost of adding content, features
Every piece of content you add makes it that bit harder to navigate your website. The benefits of adding features and content are often obvious, but the benefits of not adding and/or removing are much less so. Gerry McGovern
Mobile Adoption Means Mobile First
A sweet quote and stat on the ever increasing importance of developing and designing for mobile first:
All the kinds of things people are doing are all the kinds of things we used to make websites about — buying things, looking up information, taking to their friends, killing some downtime, anything and everything is now mobile.
Luke Wroblewski
Nearly 1/3 of UK page views are now from Mobile and Tablets
ComScore 2013 Mobile Future in Focus (PDF)
Definitely an exciting time to be creating flexible information solutions; especially because European mobile adoption is greatest here in the UK (ComScore).