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...
User Centered Dashboards: A Visual Design Approach Nicholas Pirolo / Fri, Mar 6, 2015 As a visual designer at Infragistics I am always keeping my eyes open for effective dashboard designs to lend inspiration to projects. By browsing design-rich websites like Pinterest, Behance, or Dribbble...
How to Create Effective Dashboards – More Q&A Tobias Komischke / Mon, Jan 26, 2015 We had a great turnout for the webinar on Dashboard design , thank you for joining! There were so many great questions and comments about User Experience and Design that we could not cover them all during...
Why Early Usability Testing? Tobias Komischke / Mon, Jan 13, 2014 Usability testing is observing how users interact with a technical system, a product or a service in order to learn how this system can be optimized for a better user experience. While usability tests...
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...
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...