The Stroop Effect and its Implications in UX Design Darian O'Reilly / Mon, Feb 8, 2016 What happens when your brain is trying to process conflicting streams of information? Let’s find out. Read this list of colors to yourself: Red Green Blue Purple Black Brown Yellow Red...
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...
Sticky Navigation Pattern Solves Usability and Design Issues Marshal Datkowitz / Thu, Jun 13, 2013 Good website navigation is about good wayfinding. Wayfinding describes how we best orient ourselves by the use of signs and landmarks. So good navigation should clearly inform us as to where we are and...
Notes from Interaction12 Conference in Dublin, Ireland Tobias Komischke / Wed, Feb 29, 2012 Several folks from Infragistics attended this year’s Interaction Conference which this time took place in Dublin, Ireland between 2/1-2/4/2012. Here are my notes Opening remarks from the Mayor of...
The Impact of Screen Clutter on the User Experience Tobias Komischke / Mon, May 16, 2011 Most people would instinctively agree that cluttered screens – unorganized, overloaded and busy – are not desirable or a sign of great screen design. In the past couple of years, there have been a number...
Label Alignments in Long Forms - New Edition of “Ask UXmatters” Tobias Komischke / Mon, Jan 18, 2010 UXmatters is a peer-reviewed web magazine about the complete breadth of user experience. I like their professionalism and their spirit. I published a couple of articles last year there. They also have...