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...
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Informed Opinions and Industry Insight on Tech, UX and Product Development
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.
Speech Recognition in the Car: Are You Siri-ous?
The auto manufacturers are being challenged on so many fronts these days: are they up to this challenge as well?
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
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
And the Winner Is…(The (Miss) Universe of Bad Design)
What does user experience, Steve Harvey and the Miss Universe pageant have in common? Check it out.
How IFE Informs IVI
Let's talk IVI and speech recognition. Siri-ously? Yep. Find out what we have to say!
Good Design is Fast
Can user experience (UX) design be fast and good. We think so. Check it out.
Designing in the Dark
When most of us hear night vision goggles, it is usually a safe bet we imagine a night scene with that glowing green-scale overlay or some
Qt Tips and Tricks - Part 1
Qt Tips and Tricks - Part I: Learn more about the lesser known tips within Qt that can make a big difference using Qt.
Giving Thanks for UX Design
Engineers designed and developed products, and usability tended to be an afterthought. Anyone who remembers programming a first-generation VCR should know what I’m talking about.
blog/mastering-qt-file-selectors
Qt provides a nice facility to handle this in a more elegant way: file selectors. In this blog post. I'll look at what Qt provides, for both C++ and QML, and show a simple but complete program example.
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 s
Your Software Supply Chain – and How to Manage It
There are many challenges when considering software development in general.
Lighting Up the Internet of Things
Here at ICS, we've been working with IoT technology for some time now, and it's been very exciting work.
Is the Design Process Like a Wave or a Particle?
Although design is a subject of much interest in this age of highly usable technology products, misconceptions about the user experience (UX) design process abound.
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
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – Arthur C. Clarke
If You Can Dream It, We Can Design AND Build It
One of the challenges to creating effecting and engaging User Experiences (UX) for interactive devices is balancing the creative aspect with the fu
Solving Problems is Often a Matter of Perspective
Before getting the opportunity to run a design team, I worked as a Qt developer and trainer for many years. This has given me some insig
Some Lesser Known Qt Tools and Commands - Part 5
In this blog post, the last in the series, I'll cover the remaining Qt command line tools as there are only a few programs we have not already discussed.
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? My answer to these questions is a resounding Yes!
Internet of Things: Designing a User Experience for No Learning Curve
How does a designer deal with the dilemma of creating devices with little or no learning for users to be effectively proficient with them?
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.
How Can Automakers Compete with the Rise of the Smartphone?
Automakers have long strived to make their in-car experiences unique and distinctive: not just in an effort to distinguish themselves from their co
Internet of Things: Will GUIs Still Exist?
The emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) is reshaping our relationship with computing technology.
Dynamic Language Selection in Qt
In this blog post, we will show an example of how to support dynamic language selection in an application using Qt.
Internet of Things: Connecting Intelligent Systems with MRAA
A recent project related to the Internet of Things gave us a chance to highlight some of ICS' capabilities.