What is responsive Web design (RWD)? You don't need me to tell you--there are hundreds if not thousands of articles on the Web, not to mention a few books. I've personally read about twenty some odd articles on it, as well as books/booklets. So far, …
This year, instead of hosting the World IA day like we did over the last couple of years, we brought our own UX conference UXify that we've been running very successfully in Sofia (Bulgaria) to North America.
UXify was hosted on April 11 at the…
You've probably heard someone say "skeuomorphic design is bad" by now, or maybe they wrote "skewomorphic" or even "skuomorphic" (who knows, maybe even "skeumorphism")--it's a tough word to spell. However you spell it, you can read the article on …
Since Microsoft debuted the new Windows 8 "Metro" OS interface, there has been no end of people in the Microsoft dev space opining on both the interface and its applicability or lack of applicability. Not long after BUILD last year, one blogger…
Creating good software design is hard. You can read all the books. You can go to all the conferences. You can practice practice practice. But it all comes down to making judgment calls, millions of tiny, tiny judgments that all add up to create the whole…
John Kolko, a well-respected colleague in the interaction design world, just posted his thoughts on why designers must learn to code. As he points out, he's not the first to suggest this, and in fact, there have been several conversations in blogs and…
The word "intuitive" as applied to design is a bad word; it is just shorthand for "I like it" or "I find it easy or familiar." As such, it has no place in design critiques and discussions, unless it is heavily qualified.…
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Have you ever found yourself in the situation where you had an app idea, but you didn’t have the time, or maybe even the skills, to prototype it? Have you tried using some of the existing app prototyping tools on the market today only to find that…