Jon Lax shares the results of the UX Fund. Does great UX equal stock price growth. It's an old article, but still has some value.

Wireframes are the foundation of a design before it even starts to formulate with colors, shapes and forms.

Courtesy of Webpagesthatsuck.com - some blasts from the past in terms of bad website design:

Discusses ways to evaluate your website's effectiveness beyond Web Analytics stats.

Communication via a Ning network led to tickets for a information architects' (IA) mini-conference in London 'selling' out in just ten minutes.

As a web developer, I'm constantly struggling with the concept of feature creep. Feature creep is when the developer keeps adding features to the software to the point that the core product starts to lose it's focus.

Collecting the styles, patterns, and techniques used by other designers on different types of site offers an historically present understanding of what is being designed for the web. This is the science of the process—you're collecting your specimens.

How do you user test contextual 'intellegent' navigation and information display for web 2.0 sites? .We recently user tested some IA and social concepts for a well know women's online magazine website.

From the article: Everyone loves a game of cards.

Designers, developers, project managers. Writers and editors. Information architects and usability specialists. People who make websites have been at it for more than a dozen years, yet almost nothing is known, statistically, about our profession.

Review of Peter Morville's Ambient Findability

95% of the information on the web is written language. It is only logic to say that a web designer should get good training in the main discipline of shaping written information, in other words: Typography.

The homepage is still important, especially to large organizations. It's also still messed up more often than not. A little strategy, some empowerment and a well thought-out design can work wonders for your homepage.

Newsvine's Column Redesign: Almost Perfect?

Newsvine celebrated this holiday weekend with the launch of their redesigned user columns. Beautifully designed and extremely functional are only some of the accolades that can be bestowed on Newsvine's latest improvement.

"Home pages may get plenty of design attention, but that doesn't mean they don't need improvement."

Good Usability

How often do you find something that just works? More and more, good usability has become a key differentiator among products and services in the marketplace. Look at the usefullness of Google Maps and its drag functionality. Such a simple interaction revolutionized mapping.

I've been wondering what "Folksonomy" meant, and this gives a pretty good layman's definition of it.

It's great to see an academic like Prahalad talking about interactivity with customers as an emerging paradigm shift for all businesses, not just eCommerce businesses.

Peter Morville riffs on notions of authority in the age of Wikipedia