From Product Design to UX Maia Ottenstein / Fri, Oct 21, 2016 My journey is not a common one, but maybe it should be. Despite being trained as a product designer I am now working in the field of User Experience (UX) Design. While I am not the first designer to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
Infragistics UX Expert Interview on ARCast.TV Tobias Komischke / Fri, Jun 25, 2010 Microsoft’s Max Zilberman interviewed me on the topic of fluid UIs and designing for multiple devices. In the interview we chat about how different devices with various resolutions and physical sizes...