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...
Mute On, Mute Off? Jim Ross / Sun, May 1, 2016 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...
Design, Usability and Testing the User Experience Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / Wed, Apr 20, 2016 Members of the Infragistics design community have been invited to speak at the 3rd annual Testing UY conference on April 26-27 in Montevideo, Uruguay. Martín Loskin , UX Architect, Claudia Badell...
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...
Which is Better for Analysis, Spreadsheets or Affinity Diagrams? Part 2 Jim Ross / Mon, Mar 30, 2015 Which is a better method of analyzing user research and usability testing data, typing up your notes in a spreadsheet or creating an affinity diagram? In part 1 of this series, I discussed the advantages...
Recruiting User Research Participants with Social Media Jim Ross / Mon, May 19, 2014 Recruiting user research participants can be difficult and time consuming. Unless you already have lists of potential participants (such as customers, employees, or members) it can be hard to find and...
You Don’t Need a Usability Lab Jim Ross / Wed, Nov 27, 2013 Sadly, a lot of usability testing doesn’t happen because people think it requires an expensive usability lab. The term “lab” itself implies some kind of high-tech science experiment. It sounds formal...
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...