These are my saved links for July 30th:

• The iPad as a serious business tool for toddlers –
  ipad children ux usability

These are my saved links for July 28th:

• Time to Delight – 52 Weeks of UX – "How long does it take for a new visitor/customer to be delighted using your product or service? "
  ux analytics emotion metrics
• Wireframing is not a religion – 52 Weeks of UX – "There is no right way to wireframe. You must understand the context and the requirements for the project and move ahead accordingly."
  ux ia wireframes process

These are my links for July 26th through July 27th:

• Beyond Findability – Search-Enhanced Information Architecture for Content-Intensive Rich Internet Applications – In depth paper from the Journal of Information Architecture on enhancing traditional user experiences.
• London 2012 Game Makers – Disabled people need not apply – London 2012 lauches site aimed at getting volunteers for the game, creates a whizz bang questionnaire for people to do to see if they're up for the challenge and completely fails to make it accessible.
• Ruth's User Experience Nightmares – Gordon Ramsay as a Guerilla UX consultant

These are my saved links for July 23rd:

• Actually, You Might Be Your User -

UX London is happening right now and sadly I’ve been unable to attend this year. Thankfully though, I’ve been able to live vicariously through the numerous attendees that are live tweeting it, and putting up reports online. I love the way that twitter enables non attendees to get involved and get some of the benefits of attending. Following the live feed also enabled me to find lots of new UX twitterers to follow, which is always a good thing.

Of particular note, Johnny Holland has a great write up of day one and Matthew Solle has created a daily ‘paper’ here that pulls together of variety of sources including the live twitter feed.

Matthew also pointed out a great visualisation tool at IS Parade. Just put in your keyword (e.g. uxlondon) and watch the parade! It’s super cute and a great way of visualising everyone involved.

I’m looking forward to reading the reports from the remaining days.

It’s General Election time in the UK and there’s been a lot of interesting things happening online.

Here’s a list of a few of the more interesting things going on:

• The Campaign Digest site is tracking the online engagement of the three main parties as well as maintaining a Flickr gallery of the daily changes on the parties website homepages.
• Martin Belam at Currybet.net is maintaining a social media and digital General Election Timeline.
• Electwits.co.uk is tracking the sentiment on Twitter as well live tracking during the televised debates.
• Jakob Nielsen did a review of the newsletters sent out by the parties: UK Election Email Newsletters Rated

I’m sure there’s much more that I’ve missed, so point them out in the comments and I’ll add them to the list.

Back to Library content for a post.

Jessamyn West posted a link to The Usable Library – basically a small site hightlighting things that make a library usable with some very good advice.

One day I will get the chance to go to SXSW. Until that day, I have to live vicariously through other peoples posts, presentations and tweets.

One of the presentations that I’ve particularly enjoyed is a collaboration between Nick Finck and Raina Van Cleave called The 10 Commandments of User Experience. Currently they only have the slides up, but hopefully soon the podcast will be available as well.

Simon Whatley has posted a list of UX books that are free to read online. It’s a list of 9 books, and they all look to be useful reads. (Found via InfoDesign)

In addition, Mark McGuinness has made his book Time Management for Creative People available for free also. (Found via LibrarianinBlack)

As a follow up to my post in January, the winners to the Explain IA contest have been announced and are worth checking out.

The winner of the grand prize
A Dinosaur Family Explains Information Architecture

The winner of the best video award
IAs are Like Robin Hood

The two winners (tie vote) of the best diagram award
Information Architecture Connects People to Content

My Son’s Take on Explain IA