A Night At The 2017 IxDA Awards Ceremony Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / Mon, Feb 20, 2017 As I wrote in an earlier blog, the Infragistics’ UX team was named a 2017 Interaction Design Association’s (IxDA) international awards competition finalist. It was a great honor to have been selected...
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...
The Magic is in the Details: The Beauty of Well Designed Micro-interactions and the Horror of Badly Designed Ones Diane Spengel / Fri, Jul 31, 2015 What are microinteractions? Microinteractions are the tiny details of a process that create the flow from beginning to completion. Dan Saffler defines Microinteractions as single moments within a use...
A Frank Lloyd Wright Approach to Digital Design Kent Eisenhuth / Fri, Jan 9, 2015 Frank Lloyd Wright was a pioneer, an Avant-Garde architect who broke free of the design traditions of his era. His ideals are still used in architecture today, and his buildings have stood the test of...
Ensuring Business Innovation – SxSW Interactive 2015 Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / Tue, Aug 12, 2014 Friends – I’ve submitted a talk to the 2015 SxSW Interactive conference. If you like my concept and my video, please take a moment to follow the link ( http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/31967 ) and vote...
Benefits of Semiotics in User Interface Design jsalvador / Fri, Sep 13, 2013 Overview Essentially, Semiotics is the study of signs or symbols and their meanings. It is a science that seeks to investigate how signs are formed and its core concept is to define the transfer of...
UX, Design and Rich Application Frameworks Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / Tue, Sep 3, 2013 With the advent of rich application frameworks (and the increased exposure to interaction models they make possible) it isn’t difficult to imagine that usability and design professionals may be feeling...
Evaluating the New Pinterest Megan Isaak / Mon, Jul 15, 2013 Yes, Its true. I'm a Pinterest Addict. I spend my free time browsing everything from Photography to new recipes and UI patterns to cute outfits. The site already has millions of users and a great design...
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)....
4 Design Apps that are actually useful Megan Isaak / 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...