McMansion Problems - Don’t Design for the Extras Darian O'Reilly / Mon, Oct 24, 2016 There is a blog that I love called McMansion Hell – you know those crazy monster houses built in bulk starting in the 1980’s? They are usually found in great clusters and sometimes on very small pieces...
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...
ISTA 2015 | UX Design and Software Development Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / Mon, Nov 9, 2015 On 19 November, 2015 I was invited to represent Infragistics at the Innovations in Software Technologies and Automation (ISTA) conference in Sofia, Bulgaria. I got to share the stage with some excellent...
UX and the Spaces In-Between Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / Thu, Oct 2, 2014 I don’t spend a lot of time on Twitter. I have nothing against it, I just usually have other things to do. Recently though, a designer friend of mine, @mattbartholomew , tweeted something that got me...
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...
Designing for Any Device Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / Mon, Nov 4, 2013 What follows is a primer for the professional who has been tasked with creating a web site or application that may be accessed via multiple devices (aka responsive design). Whether you are a product manager...
Sticky Navigation Pattern Solves Usability and Design Issues Marshal Datkowitz / Thu, Jun 13, 2013 Good website navigation is about good wayfinding. Wayfinding describes how we best orient ourselves by the use of signs and landmarks. So good navigation should clearly inform us as to where we are and...
UX @ DevWeek 2013 Tobias Komischke / Thu, Mar 7, 2013 It’s DevWeek! The London Barbican Centre hosts the UK’s largest developer conference. Close to 600 developers are here - and so are we. Infragistics is represented with a booth and we’ve had a lot of...
Communicating Complex Information Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / Wed, Feb 27, 2013 I was recently invited to speak at the Second Annual Symposium on Communicating Complex Information (SCCI). The goals of the conference, sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Special...
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...