The Difference Between Information Architecture and UX Design

“What’s the difference between Information Architecture and User Experience?” The line always seems to blur between the two, even though there’s clearly a difference. By UX Booth

Infographic: the intricate anatomy of ux design

This mega graphic attempts to tackle the relationship between ux and all other aspects of design. By Fast Company

User experience in startups

Making a fresh start with a new organization is always an exciting time, isn’t it? Especially when that organization is a startup. By UX Matters

Should We Focus on User Experience?

Our current notion of UX design mistakenly focuses on experience. We should go one step further and focus on the memory of an experience instead. By Mashable

4 Reasons Your UX Investment Isn’t Paying Off

We all know the business case for doing user experience (UX) work: Investing upfront in making products easy to use really pays off. It reduces project risk, cost, and time while improving, efficiency, effectiveness, and end user satisfaction. By Mashable

Scaling Your UX Strategy

In business today, "user experience" (or UX) has come to represent all of the qualities of a product or service that make it relevant or meaningful to an end-user — everything from its look and feel to how it responds when users interact with it, to the way it fits into people's daily lives. By Harvard Business Review

Agile Problems, UX solutions, Part 2

UX professionals sometimes misuse the terms pattern and pattern language—using them in an interchangeable manner. Indeed, even Web sites specializing in patterns and pattern languages sometimes confuse these terms! By UX Matters

Agile Problems, UX Solutions, Part 1

This is the first installment of a two-part article about how intelligent UX strategies can solve certain problems that are characteristic of agile development, as well intrinsically benefit our UX design work. By UX Matters

UX is 90% Desirability

We are part of creating an experience. We are manufacturing something that wasn’t there before. Sure usability is important. But, are those really what sell the experience? There’s something more intangible that drives people to products: The desire to use it. By Francisco Inchauste

Sharing ownership of UX

A UX architect, or lead UX designer, is the member of a product team who is primarily responsible for ensuring all aspects of a digital product that users experience directly—including its form, behavior, and content—are learnable, usable, useful, and aesthetically pleasing. By UX Matters

US UX versus EU UX: What’s the difference?

In response to questions from Amy Knox regarding US.UX and EU.UX, Søren Muus (creative director at FatDUX and co-initiator of ECUX) recently posted on the mail list of the Information Architecture Institute some interesting ideas in this matter. By Soren Muus

Know Your Customer's Motivations

The concept of user experience (UX) is a good one, but many people try to position it as a role in an organization that helps make an app or website successful. By Bryan

Re-Thinking Interaction Design

Our misguided focus on brand and user experience. By Jon Kolko

25 User Experience Videos That Are Worth Your Time

Here are 25 videos and related resources on the topic of user experience (UX) by different presenters at different events. By Janko Jovanovic