A Night At The 2017 IxDA Awards Ceremony Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / Mon, Feb 20, 2017 As I wrote in an earlier blog, the Infragistics’ UX team was named a 2017 Interaction Design Association’s (IxDA) international awards competition finalist. It was a great honor to have been selected...
Infragistics – IxDA 2017 Peoples Choice Award Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / Wed, Jan 11, 2017 As Infragistics’ user experience consulting group here in Cranbury, the UX work that we do for our clients doesn’t always get the recognition it deserves. While our efforts positively affect the working...
ISTA 2015 Recap | Time for Software to Grow Up Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / Fri, Jan 15, 2016 On 19 November, 2015 I spoke at the Innovations in Software Technologies and Automation (ISTA) conference in Sofia, Bulgaria. My presentation, “ Design, Usability and Complex Systems ”, centered on the...
Making Big Data Useful: Design, UX and Innovation Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / Mon, Oct 12, 2015 On October 23-24, 2015 I’ve been invited to speak at the User Centered Design (UCD) conference held annually in London. This is a more interesting conference than most (to me) because the talks center...
User-Centered Data Visualization. Part 4 – The Experiment Tobias Komischke / Wed, Jun 19, 2013 Visualizing data instead of presenting them as ASCII in lists or tables makes sense because we’re much better in processing graphical than numerical data (the so-called pictorial superiority effect)....
UX @ DevWeek 2013 Tobias Komischke / Thu, Mar 7, 2013 It’s DevWeek! The London Barbican Centre hosts the UK’s largest developer conference. Close to 600 developers are here - and so are we. Infragistics is represented with a booth and we’ve had a lot of...
The Road to Hell is Paved with Data Visualization Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / Wed, Oct 24, 2012 There is a lot of data out there today. Spreadsheets upon spreadsheets of data. Presenting this in a meaningful form has, until recently, been the domain of bar charts and line graphs (think MS Excel...
New Book Announcement: Microsoft Silverlight: Building Rich Enterprise Dashboards [Infragistics] Joel Eden / Fri, Jun 24, 2011 I am currently finishing up working on a book with a few other Infragistics coworkers (and one other person outside of Infragistics) about designing and implementing Enterprise Dashboards using Silverlight...
Blog series: User-Centered Data Visualization. Part 2 - The Pizza Effect Tobias Komischke / Tue, Jan 5, 2010 The underlying data set is pretty simple. It consists of just 8 numbers which are used for four target/actual comparisons: how many swine flu vaccinations 4 organizations have requested and how many...
New blog series: User-Centered Data Visualization. Part 1: The Chinese Bubbles Tobias Komischke / Sun, Nov 22, 2009 One of the trends in UI design is data visualization. With data volume and complexity continuously rising, data visualization becomes more and more important as a means to translate data into information...