Wall of Tweets is twitterwall product designed and developed by full service UX consultancy FatDUX Zagreb here in Croatia. It’s very popular and used throughout the world. In this article I’d like to share some design thinking, design research and decisions we’ve put behind this product and how it compares to other solutions on the market.

Best practices are valuable in the UX field. However, often we use them without really giving it a thought and considering broader context. In this post our new guest blogger, Darko Čengija of FatDUX, talks about best practices and their relation with best staring points in the user experience (and other disciplines).

As a user experience designers we are regularly in situations where our design decisions will make significant effect on the end users of the web site, application or generally any user interface or service we design. Apart from the need to understand business case and idea – probably the most important is to understand who are users of our interfaces?

Rarely passes a day when I don’t get invitation to some product demonstration, technology showcase claiming to be a presentation about UX. In most cases – developers show new UI controls, tech, code and claim to be „talking about UX“. I say stop trivializing – and learn the facts!

Microsoft’s .toolbox website plans to teach you Silverlight, Expression Studio and UX design principles and fundamentals. You can choose from two available tracks (Design Scenarios and Design Principles), learn a lot, collect badges and brag about that. And you get all that in a nicely designed and packed website.

After I’ve explained how to build and design custom control – Command Link for Silverlight, I’m now sharing some best UX practices and guidelines regarding the implementation of the Command Link control. Here is the list of best UX practices for design, implementation and usage of Command Link control for Silverlight.

This is a post about customer service, customer frustration and customer / user experience. I’ve made a move from my old webhost Inside.hr to JustHost.com. Reason? Well, I was frustrated with their „customer service“. After careful consideration, I’ve decided to use JustHost.com. I want to share my (user) experience with you.

Setting proper pricing for your UX design work is crucial. It goes hand in hand with setting your customer’s expectations. Set the price too low and you will gain reputation of the same kind. Set it high – you will also set high expectations. If you can deliver on them – then keep it that way. Reason: it’s never just about the price.