Tuesday, February 21, 2017 - 09:06
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By Jeff LeBlanc
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UX, UX Design
Director of User Experience Jeff LeBlanc tackles a few questions raised in ICS' recent webinar UX Design for Software Engineers.
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Monday, February 8, 2016 - 15:12
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By Jeff LeBlanc
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UX, user experience design, Usability
Continuing this series, the second of Shneiderman’s Golden Rules is that User Experience Designers should design systems and software for the widest range of reasonably possible users. This is a challenging, but not insurmountable, activity.
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Tuesday, January 12, 2016 - 10:23
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By Jeff LeBlanc
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UX Design, UX, User Experience, Success in UX Design, building a UI, Qt
While I missed the recent 2015 Qt World Summit, I have been to and presented at Qt Dev Days for the previous three years running. Each year, I presented two topics. The first was related to a recent project or piece of software that we had been working on, including such fun items as an In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI) system for Intel or the latest in voice recognition and gesture-based interfaces. My second talk was actually the same each year: “Introduction to User Experience for Engineers”.
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Monday, December 28, 2015 - 13:39
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By Jeff LeBlanc
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UX, user experience design, UI, ui design, anti-patterns, Design Patterns
Some time ago, I wrote a post about the use of patterns in user interface (UI) design. The idea is that, when one solves problems for a living, over the years the same problems will crop up, and similar solutions will be re-used. The context may change, but a solution that worked well at one point may also end up working well for a new problem. Having the experience to recognize these patterns and not have to re-invent the wheel each time is what makes one an “expert”.
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Tuesday, December 22, 2015 - 16:30
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By Jeff LeBlanc
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User Experience, UX Design, steve harvey, Miss Universe
If you’ve been anywhere near a media source in the last few days, you’ve probably heard about the epic gaff (http://money.cnn.com/2015/12/21/media/miss-universe-2015-donald-trump/ ) made by poor Steve Harvey at the 2015 Miss Universe pageant. It's hard to imagine a worse mistake at a beauty pageant than to announce the wrong winner!
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Monday, November 16, 2015 - 14:40
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By Jeff LeBlanc
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UX Design, Human Factors, HCI, visual designers
Here in the U.S., the month of November makes us look at ahead to the Thanksgiving holiday, which for many is a time for being with friends and family, giving thanks for the good things in our lives, and eating copious amounts of turkey. Professionally speaking, I’m thankful for the opportunity to have built an amazing team of User Experience (UX) and Visual Designers here at ICS. Reflecting further on that, I find I’m thankful that these professions exist these days, and you should be too.
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Monday, September 14, 2015 - 14:59
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By Jeff LeBlanc
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UX, UX design team, user research, User testing
Team building is always one of the biggest challenges facing any manager. Sometimes you get to build a team from scratch and get to forge your own dynamic, other times you inherit a partial or full team and have to figure out the dynamic. For a user experience (UX) design team, besides the interpersonal mix, there is also the added factor of determining what skill sets to bring into the team.
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Tuesday, August 4, 2015 - 19:08
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By Jeff LeBlanc
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User Experience, UX, interactive devices, Design, engineers
One of the challenges to creating effecting and engaging User Experiences (UX) for interactive devices is balancing the creative aspect with the functional. Talented visual designers can create amazing works in Photoshop, some of which make even experienced software engineers cringe when it comes to having to implement them. Knowing the capabilities of your development team can be critical when trying to make the right decisions in the early phases of a design effort.
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Thursday, April 9, 2015 - 11:52
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By Jeff LeBlanc
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Customer Experience, touch-enabled devices, digital signage, retail, UX
“The Times They Are a Changin’” – Bob Dylan, 1964
How many of you have noticed a change in the buying behavior of consumers today?
As Bob Dylan so aptly stated more than 50 years ago when major disruptive social change was occurring, change comes with a force that shakes the walls and windows. The times, they are indeed changing. And for everyone in retail today, times they are a changin’ yet again.
View the Its All About The Customer Experience On-Demand Webinar
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Tuesday, October 28, 2014 - 12:56
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By Jeff LeBlanc
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The Business of UX 2014, User Experience, UX, product development, customer-focused, Design, Steve Jobs
Join us for The Business of UX 2014 in San Francisco
If you are in San Francisco Nov 6, 2014, please join us for The Business of UX 2014 Summit . This event is a one-day opportunity for product and engineering management professionals to connect and learn about the business impact of UX on your product development. We will have expert speakers and panelists and real-world examples of how leading products really do lead with UX first. Register before Oct 31 and save.
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