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Like every other ux article I've read lately, this is all conjecture and no numbers.

"do it this way. This is the right way" "why?" "because it is. Just look at it. It makes sense"

I'd love to see some articles (or books) on ux design with actual stats, numbers on how long users took to figure out certain UI patters over other patterns, real usability studies, which patterns increased conversions or sales or even user satisfaction, backed up by real stats and not a bloggers conjecture. Anybody know of any resources like this?

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37 Siginal's design posts have real case studies:

http://37signals.com/svn/design

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2991-behind-the-scenes-ab-tes...

I plan to publish mine soon. THanks for feedback.

You seem to be complaining about a lack of objective measurement from the author in terms of what is a "good" or "bad" design.

This confuses me because the point of the article was to talk about differences of 5 different kinds of design discipline. It's more of a dictionary of terms. And it's a helpful one.

I get what you mean. I plan to write more detailed analysis, theory essays and case studies. But needed to write a reference article that just helps you understand subsets of design and their actual meaning. If you know what I mean.

Thanks a ton for feedback :)

Can you do one on using social media and the modern world of engagement? ;)

Sorry did not get you. You mean design analysis of social media sites?

It's not specifically a complaint about this article, more just a general complaint about the state of UI blogging. The headline led me to believe that this article would break the mold, but it didn't.

When I think of usability as an exact science, the name that comes to mind is Jakob Nielsen. He's been writing his Alertbox bi-weekly articles since 1995. http://useit.com/

Articles by Luke Wroblewski are pretty good in this regard: http://www.lukew.com/ff/

You can read a lot of A/B testing case studies on our website: http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/case-studies.php

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