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...
The Off-Season Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / Mon, Apr 28, 2014 In the user experience profession, as in sports and school, there is often a time “between”… between projects, between seasons, between semesters. Call it down-time, the local minima between the peaks...
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...
UX of Responsive Web Design Marshal Datkowitz / 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...
First Impression of BlackBerry 10’s New Design Miao Wang / 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...
The Road to Hell is Paved with Data Visualization Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / 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...
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...