UXify 2017 | Making Technology Personal...Again Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / Wed, May 10, 2017 At the 5th annual UXify conference , sponsored by Infragistics , I had the privilege of giving the keynote address. In my presentation, entitled, Making Technology Personal...Again , I attempted to explain...
From Product Design to UX Maia Ottenstein / Fri, Oct 21, 2016 My journey is not a common one, but maybe it should be. Despite being trained as a product designer I am now working in the field of User Experience (UX) Design. While I am not the first designer to...
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...
One Rule of UX Consulting Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / Mon, Jun 23, 2014 One Rule of UX Consulting There is a rule in consulting that many professionals don’t seem to understand (or want to believe). This rule applies regardless of your specialty. It doesn’t matter whether...
The Off-Season Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / Mon, Apr 28, 2014 In the user experience profession, as in sports and school, there is often a time “between”… between projects, between seasons, between semesters. Call it down-time, the local minima between the peaks...
Yoga in San Diego at the IA Summit Marshal Datkowitz / Fri, Apr 11, 2014 I am writing this blog as I fly back to Newark from the 15th annual Information Architecture Summit held in San Diego, California. As the steady hum of the engines lulls most passengers asleep, I am...
Benefits of Semiotics in User Interface Design jsalvador / Fri, Sep 13, 2013 Overview Essentially, Semiotics is the study of signs or symbols and their meanings. It is a science that seeks to investigate how signs are formed and its core concept is to define the transfer of...
Communicating Complex Information Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / Wed, Feb 27, 2013 I was recently invited to speak at the Second Annual Symposium on Communicating Complex Information (SCCI). The goals of the conference, sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Special...
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...