Above the Fold – User Experience Design

Stop Censorship – In Any Form

It doesn’t take a UX professional to know censorship causes a bad user experience. The battle against SOPA and PIPA was won, but the war on Internet censorship isn’t over. Anti-piracy bills will return, in some other form, and we need to watch out for them.

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Ringing in a Usable New Year

To ring in 2012, we’re taking stock of how far we’ve come, and giving some thought to the direction we are heading.

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UI Pattern Library Basics

What are UI pattern libraries and how do they benefit designers and developers? Did you know there are common libraries you might already be using which can be the base for a personalized UI pattern library?

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Three Top Cloud and SaaS UX Mistakes

Joe Baz, UX expert and Above the Fold’s founder, is featured in this edition of A Cloud and SAAS Moment. Watch the video to learn about three big (and possibly surprising) mistakes you could be making.

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A Thanksgiving for the Mind

Above The Fold shares some of the many things on each of our recent reading lists, from books to articles and blogs to online videos, seminars, and training courses. Stuff your mind with a cornucopia of hearty goodness, with no tryptophan-induced side effects.

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Spooky Site Redesigns

Happy Halloween from Above the Fold! What’s the scariest redesign you can imagine? We took a stab at redesigning popular sites with some scary new themes.

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The Irreplaceable Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs was a creative genius in the field of UX. But was that a personality trait or a learned attribute? By looking at his story, we can decide whether there could ever be a “next” Steve Jobs.

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Half of UX is 90% Mental

Mental Models play a key role in user experience. But what is a mental model, and how does it relate to relate to intuition, experience, and great design?

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Is time your perception, or reality?

The Illusion of Speed – Joe Baz on Yottaa

This week, on Yottaa’s Web Performance Optimization blog, Joe Baz is featured with his article, “The Illusion of Speed.” In this article, Joe explores perception, reality, and how it affects the user experience.

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7 Ways to Improve Your Content Marketing

Content Marketing World is a 2-day conference in Cleveland where content is king and creativity is queen. Marli Mesibov returned with 7 quick tips on improving content, from some extremely talented content marketers.

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The Right Test at the Right Time

A/B testing is often spoken of as though in opposition to usability testing. In reality, the two types of tests answer different questions and serve different purposes. Both have a place in a project; in fact, they often complement one another.

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Google’s Predictable Failure

“Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” – George Santayana. Google’s UX team is top of the line, and constantly seems to learn from the past. But what happens when history fails us?

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The MAYA Principle – Jim O’Neill On UX Booth

Above the Fold’s Jim O’Neill is being featured this week on UX Booth, for his article about Raymond Loewy’s Most Advanced Yet Acceptable (MAYA) principle, “Designing the Future, Gradually“. We recommend reading the whole post, but here’s a teaser, to whet your appetite:   Good design…raises the bar for what people expect from their experiences, [...]

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