ben-rowe.com

Lately, curation has been more my thing, having posted a few links lately. I haven’t written a proper blog post in a while.

But this week I’m thinking all about UX strategy, and I feel a blog post brewing.

In the meantime, here are some great articles I’ve read, and will probably reference, on the topic.

• UX Magazine : Making User and Customer Experience a Business Competency
• Johnny Holland : Planning your UX Strategy
• Paul Boag : User experience is not just about your website
• Smashing Mag : Why User Experience Cannot Be Designed
• Zurb : Jargon of the Day: User Experience Designer

Happy Half-Way-Through-The-Month. Here’s some links and things for your perusal.

First up, a wonderful tribute to the UX Designer – by Lyle Alzaldo. Hat tip to James Mansfield.

• Speaking of Hat Tips and Retweets, The Curators Code attempts to put some standards into web content attribution. ᔥ
  
• And speaking of UX, What is user experience strategy, anyway?
• The unmissable Nextness blog gives us a helpful guide for Introverts in ad agencies.
• Then there’s Jason Fried’s excellent post on giving it 5 minutes.
• As far as building products go, are we all just making more sugar water?
• If you’re into beautiful websites, you must check out Frank Chimero’s new one.
• My obligatory Pinterest article for the week - Pinterest’s Founding Designer Shares His Dead-Simple Design Philosophy.
• Jonathan Franzen: ‘Twitter is the ultimate irresponsible medium’

And I’ll finish with a link to some wonderful OCD photography!

Guys – Just a quick one to let you know, my blog has been hacked for about the 5th time in the last 6 months.

So Just going through the process of setting it up from scratch.

There’s a few broken images and other bits and pieces to be tidied up, but I’ll get to that shortly.