On the 7th - 9th of June, I was lucky enough to have been invited to speak at UX Scotland in Endinburgh. UX Scotland is the annual hands-on, practical UX and design conference for the UX, Service Design and Digital Communities in Scotland and the north…
From the people, for the people. Аnd for fun.
It’s what UX Camp Berlin is about - the UBER and Airbnb of conferences. In other words, it’s one of the best events I had the privilege to attend this year.
What is UXcamp Berlin?
UXcamp Berlin…
For the second time in Bulgaria, Infragistics is organizing UXify Bulgaria – a two-day community event, bringing to you the best of the UX design world. UXify will kick off on Friday, June 19th with a full day of inspiring conference seminars, followed…
As anyone who works in app development will tell you, it’s an exciting time to be in the industry. With thousands of devices to develop for, exponential growth and amazing new releases coming out all the time, every day brings something new. For…
For the first time in Bulgaria UXify Bulgaria was held on June 7, 2014. The conference was hosted at the Sofia Event Center. UXify is the biggest UX community event in Bulgaria and the whole region. The event includes various levels of sessions with different…
After his recent World Tour stop at Microsoft in Times Square, NYC, we had the opportunity to chat with Jared Potter of Sixth Ave. Studios about design, development, and the best – and worst – user experience he’s seen lately. Read on!…
Introduction
At times it is expected to showcase validation mechanism in prototyping. Since prototyping tools are solely meant to prototype, this sort of functionalities may not be available. However considering the totality it can be debated that validation…
Earlier this month I had the opportunity to travel to the West Coast to take part in Portland, Oregon's Design Week. Among other independently organized events, ISITE Design’s Delight Conference was hosted in the Portland Art Museum along with workshops…
I recently experienced a major failure in an interesting attempt at self-service automation – self-serve beer taps at a Milwaukee Brewers game. If self-serve beer would work anywhere, you’d think it would work in the beer capital of America - Milwaukee…
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 of property relative to their immense size;…
Amazon just gave me something high on my wish list of improvements to their website. They recently added the ability to drag and drop the items in your wish list to reorder the list. I’d like to think it was all due to my December 20th, 2013 blog…
Keming
Let me start with some namedropping, to prove the importance of the subject. Apple just changed the kerning of the word “click“ on the El Capitan website (and tens of articles were published instantly on the topic), because the…
The best way to evaluate the user experience of a product is by testing it with users. Observing people trying to perform tasks in the interface gives you the best understanding of how well it works and what problems need to be fixed. However, usability…
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 Labor Day and New Year’s Eve? The pumpkin spice…
Infragistics’ 4th annual user experience, UXify, took place this past Saturday, 9 April 2016 at our global headquarters in Cranbury, NJ. It was a fantastic event filled with presentations from thought leaders with unique perspectives on UX, design…
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 how the process of design has evolved (or devolved…
My colleague, Tobias Komischke, wrote a blog post a few years ago assessing the design of the Dyson Airblade hand dryer. His assessment was that it performed very well at drying hands, but the designers didn’t consider what would happen to the water that…
For the second year in a row, in Bulgaria, we hosted UXify – a conference about usability and design in the month of June. We followed the steps of our US colleagues, who kicked 2015 off with UXify US, an inspiring event held this past April. For…
The weather is turning decidedly more Fall-like here at Infragistics corporate headquarters, and that means it’s time to reflect on the 2016 Infragistics Racing season.
Starting back in March (!), the team visited 4 different tracks on the East…
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 case. They are discreet touch points that support…
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 lives of thousands of individuals across all…
On 16-17 November, the annual ISTA conference was held in Sofia, Bulgaria. In addition to being south of Romania and north of Greece, famous in Eastern Europe for its Rakia, Bulgaria is also home to one of the largest Infragistics offices (interesting…
I once was in a project-scoping meeting for a client who wanted to create next generation banking products and services. Since these were new ideas, they assumed that the customers didn’t exist yet. We were considering conducting contextual inquiries…
Sometimes I’m amazed when very simple usability problems are overlooked in an otherwise good design. Google Maps is a great mapping app, with one major exception – turning off the audio directions. As you read this, you might at first think, “Big deal…
The t-shirt for XLR8 Conference 2016