The User Experience Scrapbook

What about it?

The User Experience Scrapbook is a Tumblelog created, concieved, and maintained by Alberto González, an User Experience developer and designer working for Schematic, an interactive media agency, and living in San José, Costa Rica.

What's the deal?

I come across many useful and interesting links related to my job every day. There are so many bits and pieces of useful user experience-related information around and so little time to gather them all, let alone review them. Tumblr has made possible to publish posts featuring anything in record time, and so this becomes a good way to keep this useful information at hand and out of oblivion. It also works as a modest soapbox for my UX thoughts from time to time. I hope it is from your interest too.

Love it! Any other good sites to see?

Sure, try these (in no particular order other than alphabetical):

Know of an interesting or cool link, video or just about anything you feel should be here? Bring it on at ux at betobeto dot com.

January 3, 2008

UX is about play, really.

What is the most lasting impression of a favorite consumer product, web site or device you’ve used recently? It probably wasn’t its feature list or cool looks - but its conductivity to explore, to interact, to visualize lots of new possibilities through it - which, on return, make you want to use it again and again. Creating user empathy through playfulness -even on buttoned-up business applications- is the theory of Jonathan Follet on Engaging User Creativity: The Playful Experience: “There are many reasons not to introduce playfulness into a digital product or service. But if we keep users focused solely on getting things done—and not on having fun while doing it—we’ll miss an opportunity to realize the full potential digital products can afford. We need not be designing a game or a children’s product to leverage the creativity and imagination of our users.”