User Interface
Inconsistency is not a Problem
As always a great, thought-provoking, article from The Hipper Element on the subject of consistency across your designs.
Our best practices are killing mobile web performance
This examines some performance best practices and highlights the sometimes negative impacts on the experience. Also includes a case study.
Research
UX Reality check: 14 Hard truths about users
Some common psychology principles represented as easily digestible take-aways.
Strategy
Mental models and user experience
The importance of understanding mental models and how to benefit from them.
Customer experience in 2016 : The evolution of CX
"2016 is unfolding into a riveting year for those involved in CX, with eighty-six percent of companies wanting to excel at customer experience but only 27% qualifying as good in Forrester’s 2015 CX Index."
B2B vs. B2C websites: Key UX differences
As well as the obvious you'd expect from this title it does also list some key examples.
Devices
Google aims to kill passwords by the end of this year
The much awaited 'death of the password' gets ever closer.
Books
Validating Product Ideas – UX book review
"Tomer starts by telling us how he interviewed 200 startup founders, product managers and venture capitalists from around the world to find out what questions they wanted to know about their users."