One Stop Blogging: What is User Experience (UX)?

Unfortunately, I don't know who to credit for this awesome image. If you know who please let me know.

Here begins a series of blogposts entitled “One Stop Blogging.” These posts will provide a crash course in top picks of videos and articles to absorb while tuning into the hip world of user experience, design thinking, and “cool stuff other people are doing that might make me rethink how I do stuff.”

Today’s topic: What is User Experience?

I’ve not only provided you with a variety of sources and perspectives on the topic, but the bottom of the list you will find some sources that might not traditionally fit into UX work. Trust me they are all important and rather pertinent to sustainable and holistic user experience practices.

Ready to crash this course? GO!

The ROI of User Experience with Dr. Susan Weinschenk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=O94kYyzqvTc&NR=1

5 UX meltdowns and how to avoid them with Dr. Eric Schaffer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGC9MXASdPk

UX Enterprise: the Future of UX Work with Dr. Eric Schaffer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vmr35QXP-KQ

UX and UI, Chicken and Egg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wZUTe70w1Y&feature=related

A World Without Usability (Used to play in Australia, no longer the case)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwoSQypJ5to&feature=related

10 Usability Heuristics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWc0Fd2AS3s&feature=related

WHERE GOOD IDEAS COME FROM by Steven Johnson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NugRZGDbPFU&feature=related

RSA Animate – The Secret Powers of Time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3oIiH7BLmg

Quickly understand the mechanics of choice overload from Sheena Iyengar.
http://www.ted.com/talks/sheena_iyengar_choosing_what_to_choose.html

Rehearsing Your Strategic Story
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/01/rehearsing_your_strategic_stor.html

Tactile Cookware by Neora Zigler

I’ve been wowed this morning by this brilliant set of tactile cookware designed by Neora Zigler. Just scroll down through this page, Tactile Cookware, and you can see in photos the design process at work.

You really have to watch the video to do it justice.