It's easy to talk about what collaboration is or is not or the types of collaboration. What's difficult is to change your practices (read behaviours) to improve your chances of an effective collaboration. Here are seven personal skills that we all need to master to give collaboration a chance. How to apologise. How to tell and elicit stories. MORE >>

Illustrations by Leah Buley If you design user experiences for standards-based websites and applications (i.e. those built with XHTML , CSS, and JavaScript), there are several great reasons for adding XHTML prototyping to your UX tool kit. Perhaps your current practice is based on the traditional waterfall model (i.e. … XYZ Application My Account. MORE >>

According to Rules of Thumb.org (a site where you can waste a dangerous amount of time) a rule of thumb is “a homemade recipe for making guess.&# I tend to think of them more as little bits of random knowledge that I pull out when I don’t actually want to think about things in detail. Here are some of the ones that I depend on. MORE >>

I’ve pointed out the problems with learning styles in the past, but I want to rethink them with you, as we took quite a positive out of them in a unique way.  I decided then what I still do now, that essentially all of the learning style instruments are garbage.  So, is there anything to salvage? want to say yes.  And there are some insights.  MORE >>

As I mentioned in Real-Time Collaborative Editing , I had a fantastic experience participating in group editing of a Mind Map of collaborative tools during a session at Learn Trends. You can see the result below. But it was interesting to see the results exported which I've embedded below. MORE >>