Infragistics' UX Director Kevin Richardson was honored to give the keynote address at ProfsoUX, the #1 conference for User Experience professionals in Russia, on 14 April. The conference, held yearly in St. Petersburg Russia, was attended by over…
We’ve all had to deal with difficult clients at one time or another. Sometimes we inherit difficult clients, sometimes we create them, and other times they just get that way all on their own. Here are my five…
Ethan Marcotte first used the term Responsive Web Design in his article in A List Apart in May of 2010. Marcotte explains that designing for every screen size and device is not practical, there are simply too many devices…
With the upcoming US presidential election, plagiarism has been in the news of late. Yet, when we discuss plagiarism, we typically focus on the individual(s) who committed the act. How horrible they are! How lazy! How unprofessional! All these things…
As you may have noticed, 'UX' is a hot topic these days so it's no surprise that most sessions in this year's Web 2.0 conference in New York City revolved around User Experience and applying its principles to designing for the new wave of mobile applications…
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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 meaning to a sign. It is comprised of three main parts…
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…
I am writing this blog as I fly back to Newark from the 15th annual Information Architecture Summit held in San Diego, California. As the steady hum of the engines lulls most passengers asleep, I am still thinking of the great speakers I listened to…
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…
AVG is an anti-virus software. In anticipation of the upcoming Windows 8, they’ve just modernized their UI to look like Windows 8 style UI – what was formerly known as Metro.
It used to look like this:
Now it looks like this:
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;…
The phrase “design-driven” seems to be used a lot these days. From design blogs to books on building corporate culture to marketing campaigns, everyone either thinks they are “design-driven” or need to be “design-driven.” I think it’s fantastic that the…
I’m not familiar with much scientific research or studies on the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of alternating row colors. However, it is my observation that if you take a lot of rows and columns and compare them with and without alternating backgrounds…
In the user experience profession, as in sports and school, there is often a time “between”… between projects, between seasons, between semesters. Call it down-time, the local minima between the peaks of craziness that is consulting or just a short breather…
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 think that one of the best things we will get with Windows 8 is that touch screen driven interaction will be more familiar to all users. It is time for this technology, contemporaneous with the first mouse prototype dated more than 45 years…
Recently, a colleague purchased a brand new iPad 3 and after some begging, I was able to make him show me his new toy right next to its predecessor so that I could see for myself just what Apple meant by "hi-res". Surely enough, the retina…
Fresh from a recent client engagment, here are a few quick pointers I'd like to share on Icon Creation:
Support User Recognition A very essential factor that needs to be considered when creating icons. The user/audience must be able to recognize the…
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…
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 the site was old and unattractive, she also noted that…
I recently read some articles on Customer Journey Mapping, the next step as far as User Experience is concerned.
This was one article worth sharing, I thought.Enjoy !
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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). This wasn’t necessarily a good thing but at least…
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…”…