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 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...
Remote usability testing: preparing for the worst-case scenario Miao Wang / Fri, Aug 31, 2012 One project I’ve been working on lately has involved a remote usability testing session that accommodates all the challenging resources: multiple channels (live screen tracking + audio recording + a test...
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...
Envisioning the Future of UX: WebVisions NYC 2012 Miao Wang / Wed, Feb 22, 2012 How will business, design and technology be perfectly coordinated in the future? Strategists, designers and developers gathered in New York for the WebVisions 2012 Convention to share their visions and...
New Book Announcement: Microsoft Silverlight: Building Rich Enterprise Dashboards [Infragistics] Joel Eden / Fri, Jun 24, 2011 I am currently finishing up working on a book with a few other Infragistics coworkers (and one other person outside of Infragistics) about designing and implementing Enterprise Dashboards using Silverlight...
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...