Magical Links for a Tuesday in December

It’s difficult to make a link post seem interesting. Anyway, I have some nuggets from the Applications User Experience desk plus bonus robot video because it’s Tuesday.

Back to Basics. Helping You Phrase that Alta UI versus UX Question

Always entertaining bloke and longtime Friend of the ‘Lab, Ultan (@ultan) answers a question we get a lot, what’s the difference between UI and UX?

From Coffee Table to Cloud at a Glance: Free Oracle Applications Cloud UX eBook Available

Next up, another byte from Ultan on a new and free eBook (registration required) produced by OAUX called “Oracle Applications Cloud User Experiences: Trends and Strategy.” If you’ve seen our fearless leader, Jeremy Ashley (@jrwashley), present recently, you might recognize some of the slides.

Oh and if you like eBooks and UX, make sure to download the Oracle Applications Cloud Simplified User Interface Rapid Development Kit.

Today, We Are All Partners: Oracle UX Design Lab for PaaS

And hey, another post from Ultan about an event he ran a couple weeks ago, the UX Design Lab for PaaS.

Friend of the ‘Lab, David Haimes (@dhaimes), and several of our team members, Anthony (@anthonyslai), Mark (@mvilrokx), and Tony, participated in this PaaS4SaaS extravaganza, and although I can’t discuss details, they built some cool stuff and had oodles of fun. Yes, that’s a specific unit of fun measurement.