Color Theory and the User Experience
Color theory is often referenced when creating or viewing traditional works of art.
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Color theory is often referenced when creating or viewing traditional works of art.
Skills as these are invaluable to a designer. The issue designers often face is clients don’t always know what problem a user may face while using a product, they then will need to solve.
There are several ways to display a workflow, one of which is the swim lane diagram. These diagrams visually describe how a process works, including the people involved and the handover of information. Another advantage of workflow analysis is that it e
Generations of operating systems have heavily utilized shades of blue and gray. On my current Mac desktop, I can set a preference for the “Appearance” to be “blue” or “gray.” However, even if I choose gray, the folder icons are light blue.
Visual design has the potential to make or break a user experience.
The area of IVI, or more generally the Connected Car (mirrorlink.com)(1), seems poised to be a hot market for 2014 and beyond.
To understand how to create visceral appeal in a user experience (UX) it helps to compare and contrast other forms of media that preceded the digital medium.
A few months ago, we put on a webinar about usability testing.
Welcome to the post Qt DevDays 2013 edition of the UX Blog. I suspect that many of you who follow this blog also attended DevDays and I hope
Congratulations! You've finished your usability test. What's the next step? How do you organize, analyze and present your finding
When we say that a user experience (UX) has “visceral appeal”, we mean that it elicits an immediate “I like it” response.
What can you do in 30 seconds?
Have you ever wondered why graphical user interfaces (GUIs) have been the primary interface to computing?
Summer is rolling right along, and so are the attempts to simulate some of Tony Stark’s lifestyle here at ICS. A while back, I wrote about tr
Imagine for a moment that you are working on a project that has a virtually unlimited budget, like the iPhone or Android OS projects.
Even though user experience (UX) design must accommodate the needs of the user, which seem on the surface to be idiosyncratic, UX designs are built
June is usually one of my favorite months. Summer is starting, the bugs are clearing out and vacations are upon us; it’s a generally nice tim
The tricky thing about free-form gestures… adding a few obvious gestures to an otherwise touch interface is easy. However, i
There are numerous blogs arguing for consistency in a UX design mostly for soft reasons, such as "it's good for company branding,"
Here is a piece of advice for both developers and designers that come from the words of Wilfred Hansen: Know Thy User.
I’m an advocate of UX + Agile but it has led to some “can’t-see-the-work-for-the-methodology” blindness.
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At Integrated Computer Solutions [ICS], we are proud of the many projects we develop and although we would like to display all of them, often we ar