Design for the user not the device

Matias Duarte, VP of Design, Android with Josh Topolsky, Editor-in-Chief, The Verge

 


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How to Learn Anything... Fast - Josh Kaufman

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Design for Complexity

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Great UX / UI Blogs for UX Designers in NYC

Great UX / UI Blogs for UX Designers in NYC

http://37signals.com/svn/posts

http://whitneyhess.com/

http://www.lukew.com/

https://medium.com/design-ux

http://www.designstaff.org/

http://getdelve.com/

http://boxesandarrows.com/

http://alistapart.com/

http://www.456bereastreet.com/

http://uxmyths.com/

http://dswillis.com/uxcrank/

http://designingwebinterfaces.com/

http://www.design-future.com/blog/

http://52weeksofux.com/

http://zurb.com/blog/posts

http://wireframes.linowski.ca/

http://blog.wells.ee/

http://uxmovement.com/

http://uxmastery.com/

http://uxmag.com/

http://www.usefulusability.com/

http://usabilitygal.com/

http://www.uie.com/brainsparks/

http://www.uxbooth.com/

Enjoy!!!

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The Science Behind UX Design | New York Institute of Technology

 New York Technology Council - UX Design Success:The Science Behind What Your Customers Are Really Thinking - at New York Institute of Technology

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Mobile App Experience Design Strategy

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User Interaction Design Principles at Google

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Tim Brown urges designers to think big

Tim Brown is CEO and president of IDEO. He frequently speaks about the value of design thinking and innovation to business people and designers around the world. He participates in the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and his talks Serious Play and Change by Design appear on TED.com.

An industrial designer by training, Tim has earned numerous design awards and has exhibited work at the Axis Gallery in Tokyo, the Design Museum in London, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He takes special interest in the convergence of technology and the arts, as well as the ways in which design can be used to promote the well-being of people living in emerging economies.

Tim advises senior executives and boards of Fortune 100 companies and has led strategic client relationships with such organizations as the Mayo Clinic, Microsoft, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble, and Steelcase. He is a board member of the Mayo Innovation Advisory Council and the Advisory Council of Acumen Fund, a nonprofit global venture fund focused on improving the lives of the poor. Additionally, he writes for the Harvard Business Review, The Economist, and other prominent publications. His book on how design thinking transforms organizations, Change by Design, was released by HarperBusiness in September 2009.



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Great Motion Graphics Video

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Infographics & Data Visualizations Design by MBAOnline

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Great Usability Test Softwares

These are some of my favorites usability test softwares

Usability Hub

http://usabilityhub.com/

Concept Feedback

http://www.conceptfeedback.com/

ClickHeat

http://www.labsmedia.com/

Open Hallway

http://www.openhallway.com/

Silverback

http://silverbackapp.com/

Loop 11

http://www.loop11.com/

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Paula Scher gets serious

 Paula Scher looks back at a life in design (she's done album covers, books, the Citibank logo ...) and pinpoints the moment when she started really having fun. Look for gorgeous designs and images from her legendary career...

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Freelance Designer Jobs

Many college students, friends and other freelancers ask me where do you find job? What's a good resource?

These are some of the popular websites out there. Not only for freelancers but as well as full-time and part-time job. Share your favorite resource in the comment section.

http://www.mosthired.com/
http://www.mosthired.com/
http://www.artypapers.com/jobpile/
http://www.simplyhired.com/
http://www.indeed.com/
http://www.motionserved.com/joblist
http://motionographer.com/jobs/
http://jobs.freelanceswitch.com/
http://adcglobal.coroflot.com/public/jobs_browse.asp
http://brandnew.coroflot.com/public/jobs_browse.asp
http://thedieline.coroflot.com/public/jobs_browse.asp
http://ixda.coroflot.com/public/jobs_browse.asp
http://jobs.37signals.com/
http://www.krop.com/
http://www.coroflot.com/public/jobs_browse.asp
http://jobs.businessweek.com
http://www.indeed.com
http://newyork.ebayclassifieds.com/
http://www.authenticjobs.com/
http://thefwa.com/jobs
http://designjobs.aiga.org/public/jobs_browse.asp

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Motion Graphics Video - Kinetic Typography - Freelance Designer

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Freelance Graphic Designer in New York City

I was featured in the New York Post as one of the top graphic designers in New York. Article talks about how you can expand your business with a website and online present. More about the article soon.

Below is the paragraph about me,

Graphic designer Daniel Afrahim’s Web site, designbydaniel.com (which runs neck and neck with Cass’s in search results), was built to resemble a portfolio, with pages you can tab through to find work examples, accolades and more.

You can read more on NYPost.com

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Try something new for 30 days

Matt Cutts: Try something new for 30 days | Video on TED.com

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Online Marketing and Ecommerce

Will online marketing eliminate all other business?

Even though online shopping is still small part of overall retail sales but it’s a very large part of electronic commerce, or e-commerce today. Online shopping is greatly increasing in popularity because of the speed and the efficiency in which it can be done. Every year we’ll see better and faster technologies that help make the online shopping process easier. It is convenient, and allows for consumers to shop for just about anything from furniture, electronics, and clothing, without going store to store and leaving the comfort of their homes.

One of the major problems with online shopping is that buyers wouldn’t trust any websites and they don’t want to share their financial information with some online sellers. The development of one secure central account for all online payment (like Paypal and Google Checkout) has became one of best way to deal with privacy of user’s private information and online identity thefts. Basically central account is the secure process of online shopping and making payments without sharing buyer’s information with vendor. So buyer will only have to share their private information like, address, phone number and credit card number with this central account. Also, Government and credit card companies play a major rule in the e-marketing business with executing new laws and policies. Paying with credit card has a great advantage with these new policies. For example, when one purchases a product using a credit card, his/her purchase is protected by the Fair Credit Billing Act Under this law, one has the right to dispute certain charges, and can temporarily withhold payment while his/her case is being examined.

Even with all of these comforts, the online shopping stores have been working with research labs to make the shopping at home even more enjoyable by developing new technologies. One of these systems is Smell-O-Vision that is a device that can release different odors based on the data it receives. This device, which was developed at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, can analyze scents and reproduce them by combining the 96 chemicals packed inside the device. Once the device is pointed at an object, it records the odors surrounding the object using 15 chemical-sensing microchips, or electronic noses. It can then transmit that data to another device in a different location, or save it for later playback. The device could be used to improve online shopping by allowing the shoppers to sniff foods or fragrances before buying it, to add an extra dimension to virtual reality environments and even to assist doctors treating patients remotely by recreating bile, blood or urine odors that might help a diagnosis. However this product is still under produced and not commercially usable but its first step to experience the new way of interactivity between the shoppers and computer.

One other factor that has major contribution to the advance or the decline of online businesses is the argument of taxation and the fact that most Internet buyers pay no sales tax has ignited a considerable debate over this topic. The results suggest that, controlling for observable characteristics, people living in high sales taxes locations are significantly more likely to buy online. The study suggests that applying existing sales taxes to Internet commerce might reduce the number of online buyers by up to 24 percent. The extraordinary growth of the Internet in the last few years has led some to speak of the birth of a world without borders, in which that communication and knowledge over the shopping market is not only free, but also necessity. Although online transactions currently make up only a very small fraction of total retail sales, predictions of astounding future growth have caused state policy makers to become highly concerned about the fact that most online transactions pay no sales or use tax.


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Great Video by Google I/O

Google I/O 2009 - Site Review by the Experts

Matt Cutts

A rare opportunity, to get your site reviewed by the experts. We'll take site submissions via e-mail and before the session starts, and go through real-life issues that effect developers when it comes to optimizing their app for search.

For presentation slides and all I/O sessions, please go to: code.google.com/events/io/sessions.html

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Kinetic Typography Video by Freelance Designer

Creative Kinetic Typography Video

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Get Stoked on Web Typography SXSW 2010

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Get Stoked on Web Typography SXSW 2010

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