Best UX Writing Practices for Digital Health Chatbot Dialogue
Chatbots elevate the patient experience by delivering heightened personalization, real-time information, improved accessibility, and valuable support.
6 Figma Code-Generator Plugins to Try
We tested 20 code-generator plugins that turn Figma designs into code for production or advanced prototyping. These are our 6 favorites.
Does Your Device Need Dark Mode?
To choose between a light or dark mode UI, device designers need to understand how human eyes process light.
Prioritizing Discovery Research is Essential to Project Success
Up-front research provides critical insight that can serve as the solid foundation on which to build your design strategy.
From Manufacturing to Medical, Mixed Reality is Improving Complex Interactions
One of the most exciting user experience modalities to design for is that of Virtual Reality.
Embrace EV and Get a Jump on the Future of UX Design
UX designers who adopt early can make a lasting impact on both our profession and our world.
User Happiness Can Make or Break Your Digital Transformation Project
UX pros have a responsibility to contribute in meaningful ways to the success of digital transformation projects
Can Qt Design Studio Help You Overcome Development Challenges?
Adding Qt Design Studio to the software development lifecycle makes UI development much easier.
Qt Design Studio Accelerates Development Workflow of Qt Applications
Using Qt Design Studio requires work, but the effort is well worth it.
IoT, Ethics and Natural Interactions Transforming UX Design
A world saturated with computer-enabled things badly needs good and ethical UX design. 
Exploring Ethics in UX Design
What can designers learn about ethics from the field of architecture?
Do You Need a UX Strategy?
Companies that invest in UX increase ROI, enhance productivity and limit risk.
UX Design for IoT is a New Frontier
UX Design for IoT is a New Frontier
Co-Creating? A Little Emotional Intelligence Goes a Long Way
Here's how to gain value and avoid conflicts when co-creating with your stakeholders.
6 Reasons Why You Should Co-Create
Including stakeholders in the creative process will pay dividends for your project.
The Trick for Moving Clients Beyond Their Fixed Design Ideas
Clients want the best possible outcomes for their projects, but sometimes they get in their own way. Here's how to guide them toward success.
Reduce UX Friction: Start with User Journeys, End with Successful Products
Friction in a digital experience causes customers to turn away from your products. Here's how to avoid that.
Keep Your Developers Happy by Pipelining UX with Product Development
A pipelining approach allows you to prioritize UX while still providing your dev team with adequate time to work on system features.
Usability Testing Leads to Stronger Designs and Better Products
Designing a new product? Usability testing helps you address problems early, with the least impact on your budget and schedule.
4 UX Design Best Practices to Keep Your Team on Track
Following these best practices will ensure your user experience design and development process is focused and effective.
In UX Design, Quality Hinges on Effective Micro-Decision Making
Do you have stellar designs that don’t translate into stellar implementations? Here’s the remedy.
Want Your UX Design Project to Succeed? Include Stakeholders in the Process
Despite tight budgets and short deadlines, taking time to sketch helps stakeholders make informed decisions.
Investing in UX Design Can Drive the Success of Your Next Project
A commitment to UX design from the outset can be the difference between a project’s success or failure.
How Attractive User Experiences Deliver Unexpected Payoffs
Humans are driven by what they find attractive. That’s why product development teams should prioritize appealing UX.
How the IoT and a Focus on UX are Leading a Medical Device Revolution
To be transformational, IoT medical and health-centric devices must deliver an intuitive and compelling user experience.
UX Designers Can Save Your App by Identifying Usability Problems Before You Hit the Market
Ensure your app is blooper-free by applying the principles of heuristics.
Use Design Thinking to Close More Deals
Design thinking is hot. Apply it anytime, anywhere to show your clients you understand their goals.
Lessons in UX Design for Non-Designers
Integrated Computer Solutions.ICS' Jeff LeBlanc offers UX design insight for software developers.
How to Create a Culture that Values Customer Empathy
Integrated Computer Solutions.To become a more design-driven company like Apple or Intuit, you need the right policies in place.
Design Cues for Navigating Large-Format Touchscreens
When designing for large-format touchscreens, ensure the user can understand immediately how to navigate.
ICS’ Head of UX Answers Your Questions
Director of User Experience Jeff LeBlanc tackles a few questions raised in ICS' recent webinar UX Design for Software Engineers.
Does Your Company Embrace Design Thinking? Here's Why It Should
Powerful design extends beyond the product to the entire enterprise. Learn how design leadership can deliver better products.
Internet of Things: It's a Kind of Magic
When paired with innovative, new technology, compelling UX can deliver magical experiences.
What Do Castles Have to Do with UX Design?
A family vacation touring the castles of Europe turns into a real-life lesson in UX design.
How to Give Constructive Feedback Your Designer Will Appreciate
Providing actionable feedback is key to the success of any design project. Here are resources to help non-designers develop fluency.
Want to Empower Touchscreen Users? Let Them Choose Their Own Layout
Whether designing for desktop or touchscreen, your goal as a UX designer is to allow users to interact with content in a way that works for them.
Turning the Page: Creating Natural-Feeling Touchscreen Interactions
Creating user experiences that feel natural should be the goal of any touch-interface designer. Here's how we developed the page turner.
The Rise of Social Media Brings New Responsibilities for UX Designers
Social media is challenging UX designers to tell compelling stories in new ways. Understanding users’ online behaviors is key.
ICS Will Offer Four Tactical Pre-Conference Training Courses
If you're attending the 2016 Qt World Summit in San Francisco, check out ICS' tactical training courses on October 18.
Compelling Touchscreen Animations Enhance the User Experience
Well-designed, tailored user interface animations delivered on touchscreens effectively engage increasingly demanding audiences.
Want to Create Touchscreen Layouts that Feel Great? Embrace Human Movement Patterns
Incorporating natural behavior in touch interaction enhances the user experience.
Virtual Tactile-ness: Creating Engaging User Experiences
Touch delivers heightened, more viscerally powerful user experiences.
Tap, Tinder and Touchscreens: How Swipe Can Improve the User Experience
If you are overusing the tap gesture, it's time to re-evaluate your design approach.
In Automotive Retailing UX Rubber Hits the CX Road
ICS' work in automotive touches both UX and CX.
Beautiful But Dangerous: Cinematic Interfaces in the Real World
The dangers of intentionally sacrificing usability for the sake of visual coolness.
The Lite Mobile Site: Designing a User Experience for Slower Internet
Global expansion of mobile phone use has many subscribers operating on a slower Internet, are you designing UX for them too? Read more...
Left Out in the Kold: The User Experience of Keurig
Integrated Computer Solutions. Are you meeting the expectations of your customer? Here is a great real-world story about what happens when you don't.
Eight Golden Rules: Rule 8 - Reduce Short Term Memory Load
Eight Golden Rules - Eight is great.. Read the final entry on this intelligent series of user experience principles to help you make your UX great! Read more...
Eight Golden Rules: Rule 7 - Support Internal Locus of Control
Do you have an internal or external locus of control? What do you users have? Find out the importance of designing UX for this one thing....read more...
Eight Golden Rules: Rule 6 - Permit Easy Reversal of Actions
Eight Golden Rules: Rule 6 can help any UX designers help users reverse mistakes easily.. read more...
Eight Golden Rules: Rule 4 - Design Dialogs to Yield Closure
See what is in store for the Eight Golden Rules: UX blog number 4...check it out!
Eight Golden Rules: Rule 5 - Make Errors as Impossible as Possible
Integrated Computer Solutions. Eight Golden Rules: Read Rule 5 to learn about how to make the best possible experience by making errors as impossible as possible...
Eight Golden Rules: Rule 3 - Provide Informative Feedback
For every action there should be a meaningful, clear reaction. See more UX Golden Rules here.
Eight Golden Rules: Rule 2 - Cater to Universal Usability
Eight Golden Rules: Rule 2 - Cater to Universal Usability: People come in a wide variety. Are you designing for the widest range of users, possible? Read more...
Eight Golden Rules: Rule 1 - Strive for Consistency
Eight Golden Rules UX of Design: Check out the first one here!
Eight Golden Rules for Success in UX Design
Are there really golden rules that apply in UX Design that help designers to be more successful? We examine the Eight Rules here and why you should use them. Check it out.
Anti-Patterns of User Experience Design
Integrated Computer Solutions. The definition of insanity is...Read more about the use of Anti-Patterns in User Experience Design and stay sane on your next project!
Good Design is Fast
Can user experience (UX) design be fast and good. We think so. Check it out.
Designing in the Dark
Designing UI displays in low light environments.
A Sure Way to Succeed in a Design Process
Designing is a process, and as a designer you can utilize numerous strategies to progress to a successful outcome, but a sure way not to succeed is to deny the process.
Lighting Up the Internet of Things
How many engineers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? #IOT
The T in a Great UX Design Team: Generalists, Specialists and T-Shaped People
For a UX designer, there is a wide (and not fully agreed upon) list of possible skills one could have: user research, user testing, ethnography, interaction design, wireframing, sketching, information architecture and visual design are only some of them.
There Is No Magic Here
As technologists, we are privileged to be working in a time of magic, or at least working with technology that would have seemed magical to our grandparents.
If You Can Dream It, We Can Design AND Build It
If You Can Dream It, We Can Design AND Build It
Solving Problems is Often a Matter of Perspective
Both disciplines use different tools, techniques and jargon, but the similarities between them are many.
Internet of Things vs. Internet of Everything
Does the distinction matter to User Experience (UX) designers? Since the IoE is really a wider view of the IoT, do the additional components, issues or aspects of the “everything” view actually add more complexity to the UX design of connected devices?  M
Internet of Things: Designing a User Experience for No Learning Curve
Internet of Things: Designing a User Experience for No Learning Curve
Internet of Things: Easy to Use is Complicated to Design
The demand for increasingly better-quality user experiences requires increasingly more work effort on the part of UX designers.
Internet of Things: Are Your User Experience Design Skills Up to Speed?
Internet of Things: Are Your User Experience Design Skills Up to Speed?
The Touchscreen Construction Process: Things to Consider Beyond the Interface
The demand for touchscreen-related services has grown by leaps and bounds as organizations realize the myriad engineering and design elements necessary to truly deliver on a world-class touchscreen interface.
Usability and Modern Visual Design: An Effective Harmony
Usability and Modern Visual Design: An Effective Harmony
Does Your User Experience Deal with Connectivity Failures Gracefully?
Internet of Things: Does Your User Experience Deal with Connectivity Failures Gracefully?
Planning an Effective Surge Strategy
At some point in any extended-length development project, you're going to need to surge.
It’s All About the (Customer) Experience
It’s All About the (Customer) Experience
Internet of Things: Living in the Periphery of User Attention
When designing a user experience, we usually assume we are engaging a user's center of attention, albiet short.
Internet of Things: Should Designers Focus on Devices First or Services First?
Internet of Things: Should Designers Focus on Devices First or Services First?
Internet of Things: Context of Use Just Became More Important
Internet of Things: Context of Use Just Became More Important
Notes from a UX Pro Over a Cup of Joe: Team Formation
Notes from a UX Pro Over a Cup of Joe: Team Formation
2014 and the Expanding Internet of Things
2014 and the Expanding Internet of Things
Notes From a UX Pro Over a Cup of Joe: UX and Coffee
Notes From a UX Pro Over a Cup of Joe: UX and Coffee
User Experience Design Principles of a Natural User Interface (NUI)
User Experience Design Principles of a Natural User Interface (NUI)
Leading Products Lead with UX
Leading Products Lead with UX
Notes from a UX Pro Over a Cup of Joe: Mental Models
Notes from a UX Pro Over a Cup of Joe: Mental Models
The Idea of a Natural User Interface is Not Naturally Easy to Grasp
The Idea of a Natural User Interface is Not Naturally Easy to Grasp
Kiosks and Learnable Interfaces
Kiosks and Learnable Interfaces
Notes From a UX Pro Over a Cup of Joe: Talking to a Project Manager About Usability
Notes From a UX Pro Over a Cup of Joe: Talking to a Project Manager About Usability
What Does a Glass of Water or a Cup of Coffee Have to Do with Usability Testing?
What Does a Glass of Water or a Cup of Coffee Have to Do with Usability Testing?
Experience is Everything
Businesses are moving beyond their standard practice of trying to compete on price alone. Recognizing while cost is still important, it’s the total customer experience that keeps bringing people back.
Rapid Development of an In-Vehicle Infotainment System (IVI): A UX Perspective
IVIs are becoming a much more integral part of everyday life with people spending more and more time in their cars. Having an easy to use system that integrates with technology you are already using (e.g., Smartphone, MP3 player, Tablet, etc.) lets you be
Connecting Consumers - Designing User Experience the eBay Way
Whether you are designing the user experience for mobile, embedded products or a website they all have elements that when applied consistently can make any product or website successful.
Is That a Kiosk? How to Best Position Your Public Touchscreen Display for Use
At Integrated Computer Solutions (ICS), we recently have begun marketing a touchscreen kiosk product that we call ViewPoint (www.viewpointkiosks.com).
Crossing Domains: Patterns of User Experience
The idea, for those who are unfamiliar, is that in software development we often find ourselves confronted with the same problems over and over, but in a different context.
Seeing Red - Why Red Is a Good Contrasting Color for an Effective User Experience
When designers create user experiences, red is the color most often chosen in interface design to draw attention and signify an alert or warning.
Color Theory and the User Experience
Color theory is often referenced when creating or viewing traditional works of art. Using color to successfully portray balance, movement and atmosphere is crucial. A painter does not use color haphazardly, they use it with purpose
Crime + Design
Skills as these are invaluable to a designer. The issue designers often face is clients don’t always know what problem a user may face while using a product, they then will need to solve.
Workflow Analysis, Swim Lanes and UX
There are several ways to display a workflow, one of which is the swim lane diagram. These diagrams visually describe how a process works, including the people involved and the handover of information. Another advantage of workflow analysis is that it e
Of Cars and Connectivity: The Next Generation of (IVI) In Vehicle Infotainment
The area of IVI, or more generally the Connected Car (mirrorlink.com)(1), seems poised to be a hot market for 2014 and beyond.
On Justifying User Experience Design
Designers are trained to identify, analyze, and prioritize user requirements and “nice-to-haves”, and to create designs, which address those most important requirements while delivering a first-class experience.
Visceral Appeal in UX – Part 3: The Aesthetics
If I describe a user experience (UX) as having visceral appeal, is it the same thing as the user having an aesthetic experience?
Design at DevDays
Welcome to the post Qt DevDays 2013 edition of the UX Blog. I suspect that many of you who follow this blog also attended DevDays and I hope you enjoyed the show as much as I did.
So You Did a Usability Test – Now What?
Congratulations! You've finished your usability test. What's the next step? How do you organize, analyze and present your findings and recommendations? Keep reading to find out!
Visceral Appeal in UX – Part 2: Some Science
A visceral response is an emotional reaction that involves little or no active thought. It is often called a “gut feeling,” and it can be either positive or negative.
How Doors Convinced Me of the Value of User Experience Designers
How many of you have walked up to a new building for the first time and reached for the door handle -– and the door won't open as you expected?
Visceral Appeal in UX – Part 1: The Mystery
“Visceral appeal” is an expression that is thrown around freely in the UX community but it seems to be well understood on some level, yet not truly understood at all.
The 30 Second Impression
What can you do in 30 seconds? Well, according to Instagram founder Kevin Systrom, one thing you can do is lose a potential user of your application.
Perception is Everything
See how ICS makes #Jarvis from #IronMan in our entry for the Perceptual Computing initiative from Intel.
Configuring a UX team – are "super designers" the way to go?
One can imagine numerous advantages with this team configuration, such as better collaboration between designers and developers and more flexibility in resourcing staff. Seems quite ideal on the face of it.
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