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Looking at dark patterns - deceiving interfaces - in an online newspaper subscription. http://ow.ly/pHiK3000Dlp

Dark Patterns by the Boston Globe After years of falling revenue, some newspapers have resorted to deception to boost their subscription numbers. These dishonest tactics are...

Four factors that affect the trustworthiness and credibility of a website: http://ow.ly/6CET3002OZC

Trustworthiness in Web Design: 4 Credibility Factors The methods that people use to determine trustworthiness on the web have remained stable throughout the years, even with changing design trends.

Union's Jeff Stevens was happy to present to the Ocala FPRA on the importance of A/B testing for maximizing the results of your web site's presence. We want to pass those ideas on to you - 20 ways to write more smartly for the web.

Bearing Down: 20 tips for Creating Persuasive Web Content [NOW with M… Whether we are telling a story, selling a good, or championing a cause, the way we frame our narrative is key to success. The web gives us enormous flexible in…

Sometimes even the smallest changes can have a huge impact. Nick Babich discusses the impact of microcopy on user interaction with websites over on UX Planet on Medium:

Microcopy: Tiny Words With A Huge UX Impact — UX Planet When we think about designing a great user experience, it’s easy to get caught up with all the things. The fonts, the co…

Five elements of a good digital story: http://ow.ly/YHLAS

Five Elements of a Good Digital Story - mStoner, Inc. ESTIMATED READING TIME: 2 minutesAlmost 30 years have passed since my friend Roger first saw “Star Wars.” By no means a die-hard fan of the movie...

How the psychology of priming influences how people use your site - and bias usability testing. Via http://ow.ly/XvjUK

Priming and User Interfaces Exposure to a stimulus influences behavior in subsequent, possibly unrelated tasks. This is called priming; priming effects abound in usability and...

Everything I Needed to Know About Good User Experience I Learned While Working in Restaurants http://ow.ly/WckUm

Good UX: What I Learned While Working in Restaurants Good UX has great customer service at its base. Restaurants provide many instructive examples for designers.

Apple ditches Helvetica Neue for San Francisco, a font family designed for varying screen sizes: http://ow.ly/SD0Zm

The Secret of the Apple’s New San Francisco Fonts iOS 9 is now publicly released. It’s a subtle change but the system fonts of iOS 9 are now changed to the Apple’s new Sa…

Is Apple’s obsession with flat design leading to a period of Digital Brutalism? http://ow.ly/SlrRH

“Flat Design”? Destroying Apple’s Legacy… or Saving It : Cheerful No argument here: Jony Ive has produced some of the best industrial design in the history of consumer products. He’s done it by cutting out all the...

Today's the day that the destroyed Georgia with the power of Jed Bartlett. What’s next? http://ow.ly/JTrz7

UF Alumni Association vs. UGA Alumni Association Gif-Off (with images,... Two alumni associations try and settle the most pressing and contentious issues of our time: Bartlet or Underwood? Florida or Georgia? We know the...

Facebook launches standalone app for groups. http://ow.ly/EufLF

Facebook Launches Standalone Groups App To Stoke Micro-Sharing 700 million people use Facebook Groups every month, but it’s a second-class experience on mobile, slow and buried in the social network’s main app....

Some excellent upgrades in WordPress 3.6: collaborative editing and native audio support: http://ow.ly/nA0z4

WordPress 3.6 “Oscar” The latest and greatest WordPress, version 3.6, is now live to the world and includes a beautiful new blog-centric theme, bullet-proof autosave and...