Home Sheep Home
A very entertaining and challenging casual game with a great physics engine behind this. Your goal is to take the three sheep, Sheila, Shaun, and little Timmy, back to their home by overcoming obstacles along the way.
http://www.shaunthesheep.com/games/homesheephome/
The Gameification of Everything
Jesse Schell, Carnegie Mellon University Professor, delivers a mind-boggling presentation about the present and [...]
That’s right, after a few months of hibernation bookmousey is back, this time bringing more tasty web-crumbs.
Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means, by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, is all about networks, which is what we were all about last week at the UX Book Club in New York. As people were networking with each other, they were asking interesting, difficult, and sometimes unanswerable questions, in order to make sense of what often is an intangible, tangled web of nodes and links.
What is a persona? Why are they useful? Where do they come from?
Developing personas takes you in a clear direction, and are an excellent tool to help define the content, features, organizational structure, and many other elements of the site.
Design is everywhere; everything is designed. And everything should be designed to provide the best experience for the user. In his book, Norman outlines several foundational principles any designer should follow when creating, building, or simply improving a product.
This book introduces the concepts, tools and vocabulary of the user experience, providing a solid foundation for understanding the field. Jesse James Garrett provides a concrete conceptual model of the Elements of User Experience, which can be used by a total beginner as the first step into UX, but can also be used by UX practitioners as a reference, as well as to standardize and consolidate common terms in the field.
How to simulate a development environment with a local install of Wordpress – a worthy first post for a first Wordpress blog.
