UXify US 2017 | Conference Recap Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / Thu, Apr 13, 2017 What is UXify? Infragistics held its 5 th annual, US-based UXify event on Friday, 7 April 2017 at our global headquarters in Cranbury, NJ. UXify is our half-day user experience conference filled with...
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...
The Power of Pumpkin Spice Darian O'Reilly / Thu, Sep 3, 2015 There are almost three weeks of summer left, all of the leaves are still on the trees and I’m already craving pumpkin. How has this traditionally Thanksgiving flavor taken over the third of the year between...
OK-Cancel or Cancel-OK? Tobias Komischke / Wed, Jun 4, 2014 Here’s one of the epic questions in UX design: should the OK buttons be to the left of the Cancel button or should it be the other way round? Before I go into details, here’s the executive summary...
Amazon's Wish List Problem Jim Ross / Fri, Dec 20, 2013 Someone gave me Quicken 2014 for Christmas. Don’t get me wrong, it was a good gift, a very practical gift, I needed it, and I’ll definitely use it, but compared to the other things on my Amazon wish...
What’s new in iOS 7? Neither features nor functions, but user experience! Miao Wang / Tue, Jul 30, 2013 On June 10, 2013 Apple announced its new mobile operating system – iOS 7 . It gained a lot of attention with its new visual style but was also controversial. Many people felt uncomfortable with the...
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...
Experiencing Mobile Application User Experience Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / Tue, Apr 9, 2013 The key to designing a mobile application is not how good it looks or how cool it’s state transitions are (think deleting an email and watching it crumple up into a ball and arc into the trash can icon...
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...