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This is a fantastic interview of Jeff Bezos on Charlie Rose where Bezos talks about why Kindle shouldn't be the iPad and why Amazon's new mission is "Earth's most customer-centric company."
This is a pretty fun comparison of a Windows 7 Hanvon tablet and the iPad. Mute the music and Steve Jobs voice over unless your into that kind of cacophony.
Found via 52 Tiger.
If you're curious about Keynote prototyping, Travis Isaacs' describes how he works with the presentation software to produce click-through prototypes. As Travis notes, it's even useful to people who like to go between a low-fidelity wireframe created in another application to interactive demonstrations.
You can purchase Travis' Keynote Wireframe Toolkit here on Konigi.
Harry Brignull did a thorough review of WhatUsersDo.com, a UK-based remote, unmoderated, qualitative usability testing service. To use the service, you pay £25-£30 per participant and you get back screen recordings with audio of them thinking aloud during the tasks. The test participants are chosen from a pool of users paid to take usability tests, similar to usertesting.com.
As Brignull notes, this is possibly valuable to companies with little experience doing usability testing on their own before, but is less likely to be of value to companies with the experience and budget for doing moderated usability research on their own, or with a usability research consultancy.
Keynote lovers, take notice. There's a community of designers who love wireframing in Apple's presentation software, and Travis Isaacs has created a set of clean, Mac OS style user interface components to suit your needs in Keynote.
The toolkit provides all of the foundational design elements you need to quickly create wireframes in Keynote. Version 2 includes: Form elements and buttons; Navigation elements, such as menus, tabs, bread crumbs, accordions, carousels, and fly-outs; Stylish tables; iOS elements, including buttons, menus, toolbars, alerts, keyboards; 960 grid system templates; Text style guide; Image and video place holders; ad units; Alerts and messages; Annotations for capturing interactivity; and Progress bars.
We're proud to announce that you can now purchase Travis' Keynote Wireframe Toolkit in the Konigi store.
UX Storytellers is a blog that captures the stories that we share when we're talking UX with our peers at conferences and events. Jan Jursa's team are collecting these stories to publish as a free PDF, an online magazine and eventually a book.
Catriona Cornett created a great list of sketching resources for user experience designers. Includes links to articles, tools, templates, presentations, videos, and examples.
Check it out and add more to the comments. Missing for me are the links to sketch apps for the iPad.
I swear I've answered this question a dozen times, so I'm capturing to refer people in the future. The tree control in my OmnGraffle Wireframe Stencil is a godawful hack that uses tabs and arrow characters. Copying and pasting the arrows, however, screws up the formatting. OmniGraffle just doesn't make this kind of manipulation of text all that easy and I haven't found an ideal solution, but if you want to learn how I do it, read on.
To use the tree control presently, you utilize the tab stops and insert arrrows from a character viewer. Type CMD-R to show rulers and tab stops in paragraphs of text. Then Option-Tab to move between tab stops. 1 tab for first level arrow. Insert arrows from the character viewer.
The video below shows how to :
1) Enable the character viewer in OS X System Preferences > Language & Text > Input Sources.
2) Use tab stops to Option-tab your text to create hierarchy.
3) Use OS X's character viewer to insert arrows.
View it in full screen to see it.
I'm using Option-* to make the bullets. Like I said it's terribly awkward, but that's how I make do.
Since using paragraph formatting in a text element is unnecessarily difficult, what might be an easier way to manage is to use a table and copy/paste the arrow icons if you find the above technique a pain.