The Lite Mobile Site: Designing a User Experience for Slower Internet
Global expansion of mobile phone use has many subscribers operating on a slower Internet, are you designing UX for them too? Read more...
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Informed Opinions and Industry Insight on Tech, UX and Product Development
Connecting tech leaders with insight to move the needle, and developers and designers with inspiration to build really cool touchscreen-driven stuff people will love.
Left Out in the Kold: The User Experience of Keurig
UX design lessons learned from a cup of Joe.
Eight Golden Rules: Rule 8 - Reduce Short Term Memory Load
Eight Golden Rules - Eight is great.. Read the final entry on this intelligent series of user experience principles to help you make your UX great! Read more...
Eight Golden Rules: Rule 7 - Support Internal Locus of Control
Do you have an internal or external locus of control? What do you users have? Find out the importance of designing UX for this one thing....read more...
Eight Golden Rules: Rule 6 - Permit Easy Reversal of Actions
A look at Ben Shneiderman's sixth rule of interface design: allow easy reversal of actions.
Eight Golden Rules: Rule 5 - Make Errors as Impossible as Possible
Check out the fifth of Schneiderman's Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design.
Eight Golden Rules: Rule 4 - Design Dialogs to Yield Closure
In this blog post, we will explore the fourth rule of Schneiderman's Eight Golden Rules of Interface Design.
Eight Golden Rules: Rule 3 - Provide Informative Feedback
In this blog post, we will explore the third rul of Schniederman's Eight Golden Rules to Interface Design.
Eight Golden Rules: Rule 2 - Cater to Universal Usability
Eight Golden Rules: Rule 2 - Cater to Universal Usability: People come in a wide variety. Are you designing for the widest range of users, possible? Read more...
Eight Golden Rules: Rule 1 - Strive for Consistency
Eight Golden Rules UX of Design: Check out the first one here!
Eight Golden Rules for Success in UX Design
Are there really golden rules that apply in UX Design that help designers to be more successful? We examine the Eight Rules here and why you should use them. Check it out.
Anti-Patterns of User Experience Design
Some time ago, I wrote a post about the use of patterns in user interface (UI) design. The idea is that, when one solves problems for a
And the Winner Is…(The (Miss) Universe of Bad Design)
What does user experience, Steve Harvey and the Miss Universe pageant have in common? Check it out.
Good Design is Fast
Can user experience (UX) design be fast and good. We think so. Check it out.
Designing in the Dark
When most of us hear night vision goggles, it is usually a safe bet we imagine a night scene with that glowing green-scale overlay or some
Giving Thanks for UX Design
Engineers designed and developed products, and usability tended to be an afterthought. Anyone who remembers programming a first-generation VCR should know what I’m talking about.
A Sure Way to Succeed in a Design Process
Designing is a process, and as a designer you can utilize numerous strategies to progress to a successful outcome, but a sure way not to s
Lighting Up the Internet of Things
Here at ICS, we've been working with IoT technology for some time now, and it's been very exciting work.
Is the Design Process Like a Wave or a Particle?
Although design is a subject of much interest in this age of highly usable technology products, misconceptions about the user experience (UX) design process abound.
The T in a Great UX Design Team: Generalists, Specialists and T-Shaped People
For a UX designer, there is a wide (and not fully agreed upon) list of possible skills one could have: user research, user testing, ethnography, interaction design, wireframing, sketching, information architecture and visual design are only some of them.
There Is No Magic Here
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke
If You Can Dream It, We Can Design AND Build It
One of the challenges to creating effecting and engaging User Experiences (UX) for interactive devices is balancing the creative aspect with the fu
Solving Problems is Often a Matter of Perspective
Before getting the opportunity to run a design team, I worked as a Qt developer and trainer for many years. This has given me some insig
Internet of Things vs. Internet of Everything
Does the distinction matter to User Experience (UX) designers? Since the IoE is really a wider view of the IoT, do the additional components, issues or aspects of the “everything” view actually add more complexity to the UX design of connected devices? My answer to these questions is a resounding Yes!
Internet of Things: Designing a User Experience for No Learning Curve
How does a designer deal with the dilemma of creating devices with little or no learning for users to be effectively proficient with them?
Internet of Things: Easy to Use is Complicated to Design
The demand for increasingly better-quality user experiences requires increasingly more work effort on the part of UX designers.
Internet of Things: Will GUIs Still Exist?
The emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) is reshaping our relationship with computing technology.
Internet of Things: Are Your User Experience Design Skills Up to Speed?
Internet of Things: Are Your User Experience Design Skills Up to Speed?