Want to Work with Infragistics’ Consulting Team? Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / Mon, Feb 6, 2017 What is Infragistics Consulting? Since its inception in 2008, the Infragistics Consulting Team has worked with customers across a wide variety of verticals and business challenges to design and build...
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...
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...
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...
Customer Experience Guru Mark Hurst at Infragistics Tobias Komischke / Thu, Jul 2, 2015 Recently, we had the great pleasure to welcome Mark Hurst to the Infragistics headquarters. Mark is the founder of the well-known annual GEL conference in New York City. He’s also the founder and CEO...
UX and the Spaces In-Between Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / Thu, Oct 2, 2014 I don’t spend a lot of time on Twitter. I have nothing against it, I just usually have other things to do. Recently though, a designer friend of mine, @mattbartholomew , tweeted something that got me...
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...
Ensuring Innovation with User Experience Design Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / Thu, Sep 5, 2013 The Innovation Problem Business tends to believe that innovation means “one big idea”. It also tends to believe that innovation erupts from the minds of a chosen few “creative” individuals. And finally...
UX, Design and Rich Application Frameworks Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / Tue, Sep 3, 2013 With the advent of rich application frameworks (and the increased exposure to interaction models they make possible) it isn’t difficult to imagine that usability and design professionals may be feeling...
User Experience Research & Motorcycle Racing Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / Mon, Jan 28, 2013 I race motorcycles. I’m also a 20+ year veteran of user experience research. Believe it or not there are similarities. When I race, I have my knee on the ground as I lean the bike through the turns and...