Looks Good, Works Well

Ok, latest offender in animation that goes beyond annoying and creates a sense of wooziness in the user -- Vignette Media [http://media.vignette.com/products/] . Here is a screencast of this carousel gone wild. What is happening is if you move the cursor to the dead center (horizontally) the

[http://therichwebexperience.com/conference/orlando/2009/12/home]Excited to be speaking [http://therichwebexperience.com/conference/orlando/2009/12/session?id=15954] at the Rich Web Experience [http://therichwebexperience.com/conference/orlando/2009/12/home] Dec 1-4 in Orlando, Florida [http://therichwebexperience.com/conference/orlando/2009/12/travel]. If you

[http://getmentalnotes.com/] I mentioned a great talk [http://www.slideshare.net/stephenpa/the-art-science-of-seductive-interactions] a while back [upcoming-talk-designing-for-interesting-moments-ixda-722] by Stephen P. Anderson [http://www.poetpainter.com/]. In that talk Stephen teased us with a project he had started for capturing design principles/patterns in a deck of cards. The good

New opportunity as of today (10/7/2009). UPDATE: All Positions are currently filled! I will add the official job posting later this week. But if you are interested please contact me at the email shown on the t-shirt. NOTE: This is not a UX Design role. This is a

I am an Advisor for the startup Togetherville.com. Togetherville [http://togetherville.com/] is an early-stage, funded startup that is centered around ways for kids and parents to engage online. If you are excited about getting a ground-floor startup experience and are a sharp UI engineer then please contact Rajveer

Ok, one more in this vein [jumping-tabs-needless-fanfare]. Please indulge me as I find it humorous what abuses can be foisted on the user.

Another example of the Needless Fanfare [netflix-looking-for-top-ux-design-talent-721] anti-pattern. Do we really need tabs leaping up to meet your mouse?

For those at the Silicon Valley Code Camp [http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/] (and anyone else :-) here is the talk from today. I added references that I mentioned to the end of the slides. Also I mentioned CSS Specificity via Star Wars [http://www.stuffandnonsense.co.uk/archives/css_specificity_

[http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596154925?ie=UTF8&tag=looksgoodwork-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0596154925] Designing Social Interfaces [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596154925?ie=UTF8&tag=looksgoodwork-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0596154925] by Erin [http://www.erinmalone.com/] Malone [http://tangible-ux.

I gave a talk on Designing for Interesting Moments for the IxDA at the Google campus also at Microsoft for the UX team as well as at the Ruby Meetup Group [http://www.meetup.com/silicon-valley-ruby/] at CMU and finally this week at The Ajax Experience [http://ajaxexperience.techtarget.com/

[http://www.insideria.com/2009/09/50-most-usable-rias.html] Theresa just posted our article 50 Most Usable RIAs [http://www.insideria.com/2009/09/50-most-usable-rias.html] on O'Reilly's InsideRIA [http://insideria.com] blog. The article provides fresh, new examples of the six principles outlined in our book Designing Web Interfaces [http:

UPDATE. Jan 2014: I actually find this experience interesting in a different way now. The car I drive everyday has this interface and I find it to be a wonderful experience. I think it is a good lesson that you have to break with the past to create good, new

Courtesy [http://ahmedriaz.com/mind/2009/08/bill-scott-talk-sketch-notes/] of Ahmed Riaz [http://ahmedriaz.com/mind/about/], designer at eBay. Amusing take on my talk [http://www.slideshare.net/billwscott/bringing-design-to-life] :-D [http://ahmedriaz.com/mind/2009/08/bill-scott-talk-sketch-notes/]

Over the last year I have fallen in love with cooking. I think what I enjoy most is taking some simple ingredients and from that creating a delightful experience. That is why I fell in love with user experience design & engineering so many years ago. Just a few instructions (well

We are looking for Test Engineers with solid software engineering skills. Interested? Kevin McEntee, VP of Engineering, described to me what kind of talent we are looking for: Netflix is hiring Software Developers for our Test Engineering team. The most difficult challenge in team building comes from staffing Test Engineering

Fluency [http://www.fluencyinc.com/]and Rosenfeld Media [http://www.rosenfeldmedia.com/] sponsored the first DelveUI [http://www.delvenyc.com/], A 2 Day Masterclass on Designing User (Web) Interfaces last week at the NYU Poly Campus in Brooklyn. Theresa Neil [http://theresaneil.wordpress.com/] (co-author and cohort) just posted [http:

UPDATE: You can find the latest version of the culture deck on slideshare, embedded below: Culture [https://www.slideshare.net/reed2001/culture-1798664] from Reed Hastings [http://www.slideshare.net/reed2001] Meant to post this yesterday when we added Reed Hasting's (CEO of Netflix) slide deck on Netflix Culture to our

We have several open positions that fall into two categories. Visual Design & Sr. UI Design. This is a great time to be at Netflix. For one we had an excellent Q1 in the midst of hard economic times. And second, we have some exciting challenges ahead of us to solidify

I am busy this weekend restructuring a talk I have given in the past that parallels my book [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0596516258?ie=UTF8&tag=looksgoodwork-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0596516258] . I will be restructuring the way I present the information as well as

I mostly love Turbo Tax (except when it tells me I owe a tax payment :-). But here is one that I found to be very annoying and a good example of an anti-pattern Theresa [http://www.designgenie.org/] & I write about in our book [http://designingwebinterfaces.com]... Needless Fanfare

Need I say more? [http://www.flickr.com/photos/designingwebinterfaces/3659783401/]

Thanks to all that attended my talk [http://billwscott.com/files/bigd/DWI.pdf] in Dallas. What struck me the most is the vibrant community of designers, innovators and startup incubation that is growing locally in Big D. From my visit to CoHabitat [http://cohabitat.us/] in uptown Dallas to

[http://bigdesignconference.com] Happy to be traveling to Dallas to speak [http://bigdesignconference.com/schedule/] at the Big D Design Conference [http://bigdesignconference.com]. Lots of interesting speakers. In particular looking forward to hearing Norm Cox's keynote as well as hear from several former colleagues: Micah Laaker [http://www.laaker.

What are the disconnects between web design & web development? How can the two work together more efficiently? What do developers wish designers knew? I gave this talk [http://www.webvisionsevent.com/sessions/bringing_design_97OV/] today (May 21, 2009) at WebVisions 2009 [http://www.webvisionsevent.com/]. Enjoy! Bringing Design to

Excited to be heading to Portland for the upcoming WebVisions 2009 [http://www.webvisionsevent.com/] conference. I was fortunate to attend & participate on a panel at WebVisions in 2006. I found it to be a no-hype, practical conference with good speakers and excellent attendees. And of course Portland is a