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...
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...
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...
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...
Envisioning the Future of UX: WebVisions NYC 2012 Miao Wang / Wed, Feb 22, 2012 How will business, design and technology be perfectly coordinated in the future? Strategists, designers and developers gathered in New York for the WebVisions 2012 Convention to share their visions and...
UX at this year's Web 2.0 NYC Conference jsalvador / Sun, Nov 27, 2011 As you may have noticed, 'UX' is a hot topic these days so it's no surprise that most sessions in this year's Web 2.0 conference in New York City revolved around User Experience and applying its principles...
Infragistics speaking at New York City Windows Phone User Group Tobias Komischke / Thu, Nov 17, 2011 On Monday, 11/21/11, I'll give a talk about UX design considerations for Windows Phone 7. Designing for smart phones is not the same as designing for desktop or web applications. While many fundamental...
New Book Announcement: Microsoft Silverlight: Building Rich Enterprise Dashboards [Infragistics] Joel Eden / Fri, Jun 24, 2011 I am currently finishing up working on a book with a few other Infragistics coworkers (and one other person outside of Infragistics) about designing and implementing Enterprise Dashboards using Silverlight...