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Megan Isaak
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Tue, Apr 30 2013
I constantly come across lists of applications for designers and I think "oooh, cool! Let me download that." Then… I never use them. Ever. This isn't a new topic, I first approached it a few months ago when I was going through different...
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The key to designing a mobile application is not how good it looks or how cool it’s state transitions are (think deleting an email and watching it crumple up into a ball and arc into the trash can icon). It’s important to look professional and feel current...
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Jeffrey Smith
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Thu, Mar 28 2013
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...
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Tobias Komischke
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Mon, Mar 18 2013
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...
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Tobias Komischke
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Thu, Mar 7 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. There are nine parallel...
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Kevin Richardson, Ph.D.
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Mon, Jan 28 2013
I race motorcycles. I’m also a 20+ year veteran of user experience research. Believe it or not there are similarities. When I race, I have my knee on the ground as I lean the bike through the turns and I’m doing 150mph down the straights. And there are...
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Marshal Datkowitz
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Wed, Jan 23 2013
What is Responsive Web Design? Ethan Marcotte first used the term Responsive Web Design in his article in A List Apart in May of 2010. Marcotte explains that designing for every screen size and device is not practical, there are simply too many devices...
Tags / UX Strategy, UX, UX Critique, User Experience, Design Thinking, Best Practices, Layout, Visual Design, UX Services, UX Visual Design, technology and history, Html5, UI, User Interface
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Kevin Richardson, Ph.D.
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Fri, Jan 18 2013
The phrase “design-driven” seems to be used a lot these days. From design blogs to books on building corporate culture to marketing campaigns, everyone either thinks they are “design-driven” or need to be “design-driven.” I think it’s fantastic that the...
Tags / UX Strategy, UX, UX Critique, User Experience, Design Thinking, Best Practices, UX Theory, Interaction Design, UX Services, UI, User Interface, Designer
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Miao Wang
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Thu, Jan 3 2013
Besides the big release of Microsoft Windows 8 OS , another potential hit at the beginning of 2013 must be BlackBerry 10 . With glimpses at some of their key features from developer previews, I've tried to compare it with Blackberry’s current...
Tags / UX Patterns, UX, UX Critique, Multi-Touch, User Experience, Design Thinking, Layout, Interaction Design, Visual Design, UX Visual Design, UI, User Interface
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Jeffrey Smith
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Tue, Dec 11 2012
Whether you’re a developer or designer, 3 rd party tools can improve productivity and just make life easier. Here you will find my top 5 tools I use on a day to day basis. Hopefully you will find them as useful as I do! Fireworks to XAML I’ve been using...
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Marshal Datkowitz
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Fri, Oct 26 2012
Top 5 ways of dealing with difficult clients We’ve all had to deal with difficult clients at one time or another. Sometimes we inherit difficult clients, sometimes we create them, and other times they just get that way all on their own. Here are...
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Kevin Richardson, Ph.D.
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Wed, Oct 24 2012
There is a lot of data out there today. Spreadsheets upon spreadsheets of data. Presenting this in a meaningful form has, until recently, been the domain of bar charts and line graphs (think MS Excel). This wasn’t necessarily a good thing but at least...
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Megan Isaak
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Wed, Oct 10 2012
Recently, USA Today overhauled the branding across all their platforms. Many parts of the site were becoming dated and the changes were long overdue. The difference is amazing. The sites are now night and day. Here are a few things that I noticed: 1....
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Tobias Komischke
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Wed, Sep 19 2012
AVG is an anti-virus software. In anticipation of the upcoming Windows 8, they’ve just modernized their UI to look like Windows 8 style UI – what was formerly known as Metro. It used to look like this: Now it looks like this: Typical Windows 8 style characteristics...
Tags / UX Strategy, UX, Multi-Touch, Gestures, User Experience, Best Practices, Layout, Interaction Design, Visual Design, UX Services, technology and history, Windows, UI, User Interface, Designer
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Tobias Komischke
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Thu, Sep 13 2012
When I was in college many moons ago, our prof would take us to everyday machines like copy machines, vending machines, elevators, etc. for an ad-hoc design evaluation. Every time I see one of those Dyson Air Blade hand dryers I have to think back and...
