McMansion Problems - Don’t Design for the Extras Darian O'Reilly / Mon, Oct 24, 2016 There is a blog that I love called McMansion Hell – you know those crazy monster houses built in bulk starting in the 1980’s? They are usually found in great clusters and sometimes on very small pieces...
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 Power of Pumpkin Spice Darian O'Reilly / Thu, Sep 3, 2015 There are almost three weeks of summer left, all of the leaves are still on the trees and I’m already craving pumpkin. How has this traditionally Thanksgiving flavor taken over the third of the year between...
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...
User Centered Dashboards: A Visual Design Approach Nicholas Pirolo / Fri, Mar 6, 2015 As a visual designer at Infragistics I am always keeping my eyes open for effective dashboard designs to lend inspiration to projects. By browsing design-rich websites like Pinterest, Behance, or Dribbble...
How to Create Effective Dashboards – More Q&A Tobias Komischke / Mon, Jan 26, 2015 We had a great turnout for the webinar on Dashboard design , thank you for joining! There were so many great questions and comments about User Experience and Design that we could not cover them all during...
Are developers good judges of User Experience? Marshal Datkowitz / Mon, Aug 11, 2014 I recently redesigned a community site for developers. The site has the typical blog and discussion boards, meeting information and general background information about the community. The client said...
What to do with UX Findings and Recommendations Jim Ross / Thu, Mar 13, 2014 Usability testing and expert reviews are both great methods to discover design and usability problems, but it can be overwhelming to receive a deliverable with a long list of problems and recommendations...
Amazon's Wish List Problem Jim Ross / Fri, Dec 20, 2013 Someone gave me Quicken 2014 for Christmas. Don’t get me wrong, it was a good gift, a very practical gift, I needed it, and I’ll definitely use it, but compared to the other things on my Amazon wish...
Stop asking people what they think! (and start watching what they do) Marshal Datkowitz / Tue, Oct 8, 2013 I listen to developers of software and websites all day, they have great ideas and observations but I try to balance what I hear with what I see. Many product managers tell me what their customers...