• SXSW 2013 The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

    It’s March, which means another SXSW! This being my first SXSW I really did not know what to expect and I felt that being a rookie gave me some solid unbiased opinions about this world famous conference.

    The Good

    Well what can I say Austin is a lovely city and the people that live there are extremely friendly.  As you could imagine locals have mixed feelings about a conference that purges 100,000 technology, music…

    • Thu, Mar 28 2013
  • Writing Effective Requirement Documents – An Overview

    In every UX Design project, the most important part is the requirements gathering process. This is an overview of some of the possible methods of requirements gathering.

    Good design will take into consideration all business, user and functional requirements and even sometimes inform new functionality & generate new requirements, based on user comments and feedback. Without watertight requirements specification to work…

    • Mon, Mar 25 2013
  • Galaxy S4 And The Quest For The Perfect Retina Display

    The new Samsung Galaxy S4 has some nice features:

    • Hover state. This is made possible through the phone recognizing the proximity of your finger towards the screen surface. This is not new, Sony’s Xperia Sola introduced this technology last summer already. It went pretty much unnoticed then. But I still think this is big. The lack of a hover state on gesture-based devices has always been problematic, especially for cross…
    • Mon, Mar 18 2013
  • WarGames, Table Tennis and “Sexy” Product Ideas – A Conversation about UX

    A former colleague of mine, Helmut Degen, runs a blog about UX from a bird's eye view. He covers UX industry news and a monthly interview with experienced UX professionals. For the newest edition he did an interview with me. Read here. 

     

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    I’m proud to stand in one line with folks like Daniel Rosenberg whom Helmut interviewed this past December. Dan’s book “Human Factors in Product Design” (Cushman & Rosenberg, 1991…

    • Mon, Mar 11 2013
  • UX @ DevWeek 2013

    It’s DevWeek! The London Barbican Centre hosts the UK’s largest developer conference. Close to 600 developers are here - and so are we. Infragistics is represented with a booth and we’ve had a lot of interesting conversations already.

     

    Infragistics booth at DevWeek

     

    There are nine parallel tracks, so tons of talks to choose from. Obviously, it’s a developer conference, so the vast majority of talks are development-related. Following…

    • Thu, Mar 7 2013