The Stroop Effect and its Implications in UX Design Darian O'Reilly / Mon, Feb 8, 2016 What happens when your brain is trying to process conflicting streams of information? Let’s find out. Read this list of colors to yourself: Red Green Blue Purple Black Brown Yellow Red...
User-Centered Data Visualization. Part 4 – The Experiment Tobias Komischke / Wed, Jun 19, 2013 Visualizing data instead of presenting them as ASCII in lists or tables makes sense because we’re much better in processing graphical than numerical data (the so-called pictorial superiority effect)....
User Experience Research & Motorcycle Racing Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / 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...
Are You Design-Driven? Probably Not. Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / 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...
Dyson Air Blade & Thorough Design Tobias Komischke / 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...
Listening to users with Iterative Design Marshal Datkowitz / Thu, May 3, 2012 The heart of User Centered Design (UCD) is to listen to users. By "listen" I don't mean just hearing their words but using all the methods of observation to understand what users want from a product....
Notes from Interaction12 Conference in Dublin, Ireland Tobias Komischke / Wed, Feb 29, 2012 Several folks from Infragistics attended this year’s Interaction Conference which this time took place in Dublin, Ireland between 2/1-2/4/2012. Here are my notes Opening remarks from the Mayor of...
UX at this year's Web 2.0 NYC Conference jsalvador / Sun, Nov 27, 2011 As you may have noticed, 'UX' is a hot topic these days so it's no surprise that most sessions in this year's Web 2.0 conference in New York City revolved around User Experience and applying its principles...
Infragistics speaking at New York City Windows Phone User Group Tobias Komischke / Thu, Nov 17, 2011 On Monday, 11/21/11, I'll give a talk about UX design considerations for Windows Phone 7. Designing for smart phones is not the same as designing for desktop or web applications. While many fundamental...
Good design knows “why” – designing with rationale for traceability [Infragistics] Joel Eden / Tue, May 10, 2011 "The design is an expression of the purpose." - Charles Eames Decisions should be based on rationale, and you should be able to account for these decisions made during the design process. Think...