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Connecting tech leaders with insight to move the needle, and developers and designers with inspiration to build really cool touchscreen-driven stuff people will love.
Color Theory and the User Experience
Color theory is often referenced when creating or viewing traditional works of art.
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
The Blue Landscape of Our Imagination
Generations of operating systems have heavily utilized shades of blue and gray. On my current Mac desktop, I can set a preference for the “Appearance” to be “blue” or “gray.” However, even if I choose gray, the folder icons are light blue.
The Role of Visual Design in UX
Visual design has the potential to make or break a user experience.
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.
Visceral Appeal in UX – Part 4: The Design
To understand how to create visceral appeal in a user experience (UX) it helps to compare and contrast other forms of media that preceded the digital medium.
On Justifying User Experience Design
A few months ago, we put on a webinar about usability testing.
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
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 finding
Visceral Appeal in UX – Part 2: Some Science
When we say that a user experience (UX) has “visceral appeal”, we mean that it elicits an immediate “I like it” response.
The 30 Second Impression
What can you do in 30 seconds?
Our Vision Sense Outshines and Overshadows
Have you ever wondered why graphical user interfaces (GUIs) have been the primary interface to computing?
Perception is Everything
Summer is rolling right along, and so are the attempts to simulate some of Tony Stark’s lifestyle here at ICS. A while back, I wrote about tr
Reducing Engineering Costs Through UX Design
Imagine for a moment that you are working on a project that has a virtually unlimited budget, like the iPhone or Android OS projects.
UX Designers are Pattern Thinkers
Even though user experience (UX) design must accommodate the needs of the user, which seem on the surface to be idiosyncratic, UX designs are built
Keeping Up to Date (Whether You Like It or Not)
June is usually one of my favorite months. Summer is starting, the bugs are clearing out and vacations are upon us; it’s a generally nice tim
The Tricky Thing about Free-form Gestures
The tricky thing about free-form gestures… adding a few obvious gestures to an otherwise touch interface is easy. However, i
The Most Important Reason For Consistency in the Design of a UX
There are numerous blogs arguing for consistency in a UX design mostly for soft reasons, such as "it's good for company branding,"
Going Mobile
Here is a piece of advice for both developers and designers that come from the words of Wilfred Hansen: Know Thy User.
Conflating Increment and Iterate? Use Common Sense!
I’m an advocate of UX + Agile but it has led to some “can’t-see-the-work-for-the-methodology” blindness.
Inspirational Design: The UX of Hollywood
Join me for a UX webinar—Introduction to UX Design for Engineers—on March 21 at 1:00 EDT. Space is limited, so register here today.