Design, Usability and Testing the User Experience Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / Wed, Apr 20, 2016 Members of the Infragistics design community have been invited to speak at the 3rd annual Testing UY conference on April 26-27 in Montevideo, Uruguay. Martín Loskin , UX Architect, Claudia Badell...
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...
Customer Experience Guru Mark Hurst at Infragistics Tobias Komischke / Thu, Jul 2, 2015 Recently, we had the great pleasure to welcome Mark Hurst to the Infragistics headquarters. Mark is the founder of the well-known annual GEL conference in New York City. He’s also the founder and CEO...
User-Centered Data Visualization. Part 4 – The Experiment Tobias Komischke / Wed, Jun 19, 2013 Visualizing data instead of presenting them as ASCII in lists or tables makes sense because we’re much better in processing graphical than numerical data (the so-called pictorial superiority effect)....
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...
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...
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...
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...