This page provides a list of email discussion groups and online forums about the UX disciplines and practice.

Issue 2 Volume 1, Fall 2009, of the Journal of Information Architecture is now available. Includes the following articles.

UserPlus.org wants to share usability knowledge with web designers, web developers, usability specialists and all others interested in creating user friendly websites. By creating design patterns and best practices we want to make the existing knowledge usable in daily practice.

"A style guide or style manual is a set of standards for design and writing of documents, either for general use or for a specific publication or organization. A set of standards for a specific organization is known as "house style". Style guides are prevalent for general and specialized use, for the general reading and writing audience, and for students and scholars of the various academic disciplines, medicine, journalism, the law, government, business, and industry. Some style guides focus on

The Axure RP Pro 5.6 for Mac Alpha is now available for download. You can follow progress and find information on licensing at www.axureformac.com. The alpha version expires February 28, 2010. A valid alpha/beta will be available until the final release of 5.6 for Mac so your work will not be interrupted.

Easy Framework is a CSS/HTML/JavaScript framework created by Alen Grakalic. It provides a simple foundation for creating front end templates and provides a cookbook of jQuery-powered interactive behaviors you can use in your prototypes.

I finally made some time to read through Luke Wroblewski's excellent review of the changes in the Apple store's redesigned checkout form. According to Wroblewski, "...retail sales data shows that Mac sales were up 21% year-over-year in the months of October and November. So it's interesting to note that Apple's primary online sales channel (Web-based checkout) was redesigned during this time.

I'm sure there is a specific application they have in mind here, e.g. displaying a view of tabular data as a masked form to a user that has permission to edit it. But I think that could just be accomplished using javascript to transform individual fields and submit via AJAX. One of the problems with transforming the text to input and back to system text again is that the user might believe that the transition implies a submission, when nothing is submitted in this form, I presume, until the Edit

Just discovered Mike Rohde's Sketchnote Army.

Freelancers should check out Munawar Ahmed's a summary of health insurance, life insurance, and long-term disability rates for 2010 through the Freelancer's Union.

I think those two should be reversed, otherwise there is an error that $.polypage is undefined

Silverado Vineyards celebrates a new Flash website with an interactive vineyard map and gorgeous photo galleries on most wine, tours, and tasting pages to bring visitors to the heart of Sonoma County, online.

So this year my company plaid decided to create a tool to help people save time around the holidays. It's called the Merry Newsinator and it generates a customized personal newsletter in about 3 minutes. Anyways hope you like it and would love to see you post it. I have included one we did for santa claus below! Happy Holidays!