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 a little vulnerable.
After all, until recently…
Last month at the Human-Computer Interaction International conference in Orlando, I came across some interesting research results. The be honest, the only reason why I paid attention to those was that the they were authored by a Fraunhofer Institute.…
On 19 November, 2015 I was invited to represent Infragistics at the Innovations in Software Technologies and Automation (ISTA) conference in Sofia, Bulgaria. I got to share the stage with some excellent local and international speakers, including Infragistics…
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 what we can find.
Most websites place site navigation…
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 around the disruptive and transformative power…
The “Unicorn” concept (a rare individual who can do every UX job) has been talked up lately. I last heard an impassioned talk about this at UI18 in Boston. The idea goes something like this: There are so many enterprises that need UX services but there…
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. The book is due out in September, but it is…
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 thinking.
In the field of Ecology, these sorts…
The new Samsung Galaxy S4 has some nice features:
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
Pink
Orange
Piece of cake right? You are only concentrating…
Friends – I’ve submitted a talk to the 2015 SxSW Interactive conference. If you like my concept and my video, please take a moment to follow the link (http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/31967) and vote for me. Thanks very much!
Kevin
Businesses tend to…
I found this article in the New York Times that highlights the detrimental effect of bad user interfaces on the user experience and as a consequence on the rating of Ford.
Executive summary:
• In the J.D. Power & Associates Initial Quality Study, automakers…
Friends and colleagues,
I’ve submitted a presentation proposal to the 2015 SXSW Interactive Conference. If you like my proposal, please take a moment to visit the SXSW PanelPicker (http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/32599) and vote for me. Thank…
"The design is an expression of the purpose." - Charles Eames
Decisions should be based on rationale, and you should be able to account for these decisions made during the design process.
Think back to the last application you (or your team…
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 want -- they say, “Customers tell me all the time…”…
How will business, design and technology be perfectly coordinated in the future? Strategists, designers and developers gathered in New York for the WebVisions 2012 Convention to share their visions and offer practical tips for getting things done. Three…
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 interesting conversations already.…