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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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jsalvador
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Mon, Apr 29 2013
The Benefits of A Style Guide A style guide is undoubtedly one of the most important elements of any given project. Aside from forcing you to define your style, it also establishes rules for your clients and those who take over the project as well as...
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Kevin Richardson, Ph.D.
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Tue, Apr 9 2013
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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csrinivasan
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Mon, Mar 25 2013
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...
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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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Mon, Mar 11 2013
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. I’m proud...
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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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Wed, Feb 27 2013
I was recently invited to speak at the Second Annual Symposium on Communicating Complex Information (SCCI). The goals of the conference, sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Special Interest Group on the Design of Communication...
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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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Tobias Komischke
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Mon, Nov 26 2012
I was doing research for a project recently where I needed to calculate quarterback ratings off from 35-year old scanned in records. The records were produced with type writers back then, just trying to read them was quite some experience. We found a...
