Ensuring Innovation with User Experience Design Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / Thu, Sep 5, 2013 The Innovation Problem Business tends to believe that innovation means “one big idea”. It also tends to believe that innovation erupts from the minds of a chosen few “creative” individuals. And finally...
The Failure of the UXPA Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / Thu, Jul 25, 2013 I recently had the opportunity to attend the 22nd Annual User Experience Professionals Association International conference . I have a long relationship with this organization and this conference as we...
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...
Galaxy S4 And The Quest For The Perfect Retina Display Tobias Komischke / Mon, Mar 18, 2013 The new Samsung Galaxy S4 has some nice features: Hover state. This is made possible through the phone recognizing the proximity of your finger towards the screen surface. This is not new, Sony’s...
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...
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...
Isn’t Usability Enough? Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / Thu, Aug 9, 2012 Traditional usability firms (or usability groups within large companies) tend to focus on evaluation, and their design process typically ends at the Discover phase with workflows and application screens...
More proof that UX matters Marshal Datkowitz / Thu, Jun 21, 2012 I found this article in the New York Times that highlights the detrimental effect of bad user interfaces on the user experience and as a consequence on the rating of Ford. Executive summary: • In...
Blog series: User-Centered Data Visualization. Part 3 – What is this??? Tobias Komischke / Mon, Jun 18, 2012 Recently, TIME magazine published this info graphic about top-earning movies. It’s kinda interesting. I spent much more time looking at this than I normally would have. So by that definition, the graphic...
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...