CATALOGING THE ART AND SCIENCE OF USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN
Title: 10 Things I Learned About UX By Being Drunk Context: If you think your product might be hard to use when sober, imagine trying to do it while drunk. Synopsis: User experience design can be a sobering activity. Trying … Continued
Title: The User Experience Designer’s Charlatan Test Context: Good UX is never graded on a curve. Synopsis: How does one gauge an individual’s UX acumen? Well, you can work side by side with them for long periods of time, see … Continued
Title: One Magic Formula to Calculate User Experience? Context: The holy grail of UX: quantifying a user’s experience. The bane of UX: math. Synopsis: It is impossible to quantify every aspect, input, factor, and interaction vector that go into designing … Continued
Title: Collaboration through the Design Studio Context: There is an art to both the giving, and receiving, of criticism. Synopsis: Nobody likes to hear people tell them how much they suck. Rudeness is not intended to improve conditions, it is … Continued
Title: The secret origin of “log in” Context: The language of the computer interface borrows heavily from other disciplines, most of which makes no sense. Synopsis: Why do we “log in”? It’s a phrase that we are all very familiar … Continued
Title: Buy Experiences, Not Things Context: If money isn’t buying you happiness maybe you are spending it on the wrong types of things. Synopsis: Everyone knows that delicious feeling the day before you are about to take a week or … Continued
Title: UX IRL: Syncing the Online and Offline Experience Context: Just because you use something online doesn’t mean you still don’t live in the offline world. Synopsis: Ah, the digital world. Cyberspace. Online communities. We love to locopomorphicize our online … Continued
Title: The Rise of the UX Torturer Context: Why ask users to pay for a better user experience when it’s easier to design one so bad they’ll be willing to pay you to not have to deal with it? Synopsis: … Continued
Title: Why UX is critical: every $1 invested in UX yields a $2 to $100 return Context: If UX was the stock market companies would be throwing money at it. But its not. So they don’t. Synopsis: If only there … Continued
Title: Choosing the Right Metrics for User Experience Context: Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts. Einstein said that. I just repeated it. Synopsis: Analytics are easy, right? Just treat all of … Continued
Title: Study: Good Design Is Good For Business Context: Design isn’t just a business differentiator, it’s a business driver. Synopsis: Apple, Coca-Cola, Ford, Herman Miller, IBM, Intuit, Newell Rubbermaid, Nike, Procter & Gamble, Starbucks, Starwood, Steelcase, Target, Walt Disney, Whirlpool. … Continued
Title: Everything you know about Steve Jobs and design is wrong, according to one man who should know Context: The current importance of design in technology was not always thus. Synopsis: Think different. That’s what they do, right? Well Apple … Continued
Title: Infographic: Watch A Company’s Management Team Mutate Over 4 Years Context: We’ve all most likely been re-orged at least once in our life. Did I say once? Sorry, I meant eleventy billion times… Synopsis: Large, hulking, ossified corporate structures … Continued
Title: The Six Greatest Breakthroughs in UX History Context: We user experience professionals stand on the shoulders of UX giants. Synopsis: Gauguin once asked “Whence Come We? What Are We? Whither Go We?” Not sure what that has to do … Continued
Title: 5 Lessons From The Best Interaction Designs Of 2011 Context: What did we learn about interaction design trends in 2011? Read on to find out. Synopsis: Ah, the end of year list. What a great user experience. Reducing the … Continued