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The best of Cone Trees for 2011

February 9, 2012 – 6:52 pm

2011 has ended and has been a rather good year for me. I know I have not been writing this year, but work has kept me very occupied, and happy.
I left Delhi and moved to Singapore early in the year to join PebbleRoad and have since then had a great time working on a [...]

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Videos from UX Week 2011

November 13, 2011 – 8:47 pm

You can watch most of the videos from UX 2011 which took place in San Francisco from August 23 to 26, 2011. UX Week 2011 was organised by Adaptive Path.
Chris van der Walt & P.J. Onori of HunchWorks on Applying Human-centric Design to Complex Global Problems

Mark Trammell & Jesse James Garrett on Creating Engagement on [...]

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Rajat Paharia on Influencing User Behaviour through Game Dynamics

October 5, 2011 – 8:32 pm

Rajat talks about how designers can address fundamental human needs and desires (like status, achievement, reward, competition, self-expression) to make experiences both compelling and satisfying.
He talks about how game designers have known for years on how to incentivise and motivate players by addressing these needs through the use of mechanics like points, levels, leaderboards, [...]

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A Social Media ROI Examples Video Infographic

September 4, 2011 – 2:06 pm

If you need to get your stakeholders thinking about taking their first step (or their next step- from unplanned to get thinking and developing a strategy) in social media, then you will find this video helpful in collecting examples and data points that show how organizations have benefited from social media.
Being a video infographic, [...]

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A Quick Look into IDEO’s Design Process- Designing a Shopping Cart in 5 days

July 23, 2011 – 5:33 pm

In 1998, ABC’s Nightline news show asked IDEO to create a new shopping cart concept, considering issues such as maneuverability, shopping behavior, child safety, and maintenance cost. The resulting episode demonstrates IDEO’s design process, showing the multidisciplinary team brainstorming, researching, prototyping, and gathering user feedback on a design in order to move all the way [...]

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Alexis Lloyd on new interactions with news

June 19, 2011 – 12:34 pm

Alexis talks about some of the notable paradigm shifts that are happening around technology and media and how these affect the user experience; like the web shifting from a paradigm of publishing to communicating, and from people finding content to content finding people.
She discusses the implications of these changes in technology and consumer [...]

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The UX Bookmark- the best UX links for the smartest User Experience practitioners

May 18, 2011 – 1:57 pm

I created the UX Bookmark a few years ago to separate the wheat from the chaff, here you will find only the best of articles, from journals, conferences and the web, that will help you evolve to being a more knowledgeable user experience practitioner.
From the feedback I have received, I could not be more [...]

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Excel tricks: How to convert a column to a row

April 22, 2011 – 6:33 pm

Suppose you have a column of data and want to arrange it in a row rather than having it in a column, you can do so using the ‘paste special’ feature in Microsoft Excel.

Copy the cells of the column you want to convert to a row.
Right-click the first cell of the row you want to [...]

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Insightico- a collaborative research web app

March 28, 2011 – 8:29 pm

Insightico in a nutshell
Insightico is a collaborative research web application that lets you look for insights in your research data in a simple and easy manner.
You really should sign up for the beta.
What is Insightico?
In Insightico, you first create a project and then add research artifacts (audio, video, images, spreadsheets, PDF’s and more) with the [...]

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UX Quotes- Quotes on User Experience

March 1, 2011 – 8:07 am

This website of mine features a wonderful collection of quotes I have gathered over the years related to usability, interaction design, typography, etc.- the whole gamut of user experience. It lets you build upon your user experience wisdom through serendipity one quote at a time.
UXQuotes

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