CATALOGING THE ART AND SCIENCE OF USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN
Title: The Man Who’s Going to Save Your Neighborhood Grocery Store Context: OK, so it’s a story about grocery stores…or is it? Synopsis: What do grocery stores have to do with user experience? Well, just about everything as it turns … Continued
Title: What Would a World Designed by Women Look Like? Context: Diversity of thought and experience is the most effective way to address the problems impacting a world forged within a historically narrow set of perspectives. Synopsis: As I read … Continued
Title: Unpleasant Design & Hostile Urban Architecture Context: When bad experience equals good design. Synopsis: Most design should be devoted to making people’s lives intentionally better. No, that’s not a misprint. I purposefully did not use the opening phrase “All … Continued
Title: Design as Participation Context: Who should we be designing for? Nothing like a dense academic treatise to answer an otherwise straightforward question. Synopsis: Designers design for users. This is dogma. Fact. Law even. That’s basically our job description. Users … Continued
Title: How Gallaudet University’s Architects Are Redefining Deaf Space Context: The language of design has to speak to people of all abilities in order to be considered complete. Synopsis: There is a universally accepted belief that accessible design is diminished … Continued
Title: Software is sometimes done Context: Finishing software used to happen all the time. Now it doesn’t. Software has become a process, not an object. Synopsis: Software gets “done” in much the same way a birthday cake doesn’t. The proverbial … Continued
Title: Let’s talk about margins Context: The guy talks about margins, but what he’s really referring to is life itself. Synopsis: There are an infinite number of details in everything you make. Design is the practice of figuring out which … Continued
Title: Science for Designers: The Meaning of Complexity Context: Design is surely an art. But it’s also a science. Did I just blow your mind? Synopsis: [WARNING: THE LINKED ARTICLE CONTAINS HIGHBROW CRITICAL ARCHITECTURAL PROSE. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK.] … Continued
Title: What I Bring to UX From…Architecture Context: User experience design…it takes all kinds. Synopsis: User experience is a relatively new discipline which means that most of its practitioners do not come from a specific UX professional or educational background. … Continued
Title: Let’s Be Frank Context: User experience as a discipline is not confined to pixels and web pages as much as we may believe that it does. Synopsis: Say what you will about Frank Gehry, he’s a guy consumed with … Continued