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Nick Finck and Raina Van Cleave's presentation slides from the SXSWi talk are up. Here's a summary:

User experiences are your everyday experiences—anything from operating a car, to making a pot of coffee, to ordering a pair of shoes online. User experience is the result of your interactions with a product or service, specifically how it’s delivered and its related artifacts according to the design.

In this presentation Nick Finck and Raina Van Cleave will explore the ten characteristics of a great user experience. They will cover all aspects of user experience design such as user research, information architecture, information design, technical writing, interaction design, visual design, brand identity design, accessibly, usability and web analytics. Nick and Raina will also explain how following the ten commandments can boost your web sites, web app, or mobile app’s ease of use, appeal, conversion rates, and more.

Read more on Nick's site.

http://www.nickfinck.com/blog/entry/the_ten_commandments_of_user_experience/

Jussi Pasanen of Volkside pulls out an HCI gem in Kent L. Norman's The Psychology of Menu Selection: Designing Cognitive Control at the Human/Computer Interface, and repurposes the list of guidelines from the Checklist for Menu Design to provide a set of suitable guidelines for information architects to use with today’s websites. Norman's book is available for free on the web.

Via @BogieZero

http://www.volkside.com/2010/03/15-guidelines-for-better-information-architecture-from-1991/

I wanted to capture all of the slides and videos into one entry to compare each of the guys' approaches. The right way? There isn't one right way. That's the point. The one thread that does carry through, however, is a general process of discovery/research, sketching/ideation, selection/refinement, visual design.

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