Above the Fold – User Experience Design

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

“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?

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, [...]

ATF and Accessible Places are looking for volunteers to participate in a mobile usability test. Do you fit the criteria? Email usersrock@abovethefolddesign.com to volunteer.