CATALOGING THE ART AND SCIENCE OF USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN
Title: Enterprise Software: Why the User Experience Matters Context: Enterprise software is where user experience goes to die…Until now! Synopsis: Anyone who has ever worked in an enterprise level business knows one thing: the systems and software used in those … Continued
Title: Can’t Make The Meeting? Send Your Robot Instead Context: WANT!!!!! God as my witness, I’ll never go into the office again… Synopsis: “It’s the next best thing to being there.” That old chestnut may actually be about to come … Continued
Why prototyping beats wireframing. You’re making, not documenting. You can feel the thing you’re making. You’ve got a thing you can start testing, in all kinds of ways, almost immediately. Prototyping is more like experimenting than describing your grand design. … Continued
Title: Does Brainstorming Work? Context: No. No it does not. Synopsis: Ah the fragile creative psyche. Gentle and soft. We must strive to protect our artistic originality at all costs lest the cruel slings and arrows of criticism damage our … Continued
Title: Why It’s Important to Sketch Before You Wireframe Context: Sketch. Sketch. A thousand times; sketch. Synopsis: The human mind has had millennia to evolve into the wonderfully complex ideation machine that it currently is. And for the vast, vast … Continued
Title: When Should We Use App, Responsive and Mobile Design? Context: So many platforms and so little time to design for all of them. What’s the best approach? Synopsis: The world is going mobile. That’s great but what does that … Continued
Title: Login Screen – behind the scenes Context: The devil – and the difference – are in the details. Synopsis: How much time and effort are you really able to spend on the tiniest details of your design work? I … Continued
Title: Fixing A Broken User Experience Context: If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. But if it is broken, get up off your lazy ass and get to fixin! Synopsis: Fractured user experience. Mis-aligned product portfolio. Multiple visual languages and … Continued
Title: The Dying Art Of Design Context: Is technology killing the craft of design or fueling a design renaissance? Depends if you are a shitty designer or not. Synopsis: Oh technology. Why do you always bear the brunt of designs … Continued
If God had wanted us to take the stairs he wouldn’t have given us fingers with which to press elevator buttons now would he?
I once made a model kit of a car where I didn’t fully glue the wheels to the body and if you pushed it hard enough it would sort of roll for a few inches… via youtube.com
Title: Lessons Learned Designing a Windows 8 App Context: Windows 8 is coming. Prepare accordingly. Synopsis: Another day, another operating system update with new IA and UI requirements that force you to redesign your existing applications so as not to … Continued
Title: Usable yet Useless: Why Every Business Needs Product Discovery Context: He who would choose to succeed must first understand what success looks like. Synopsis: There are many different types of complexity that designers face when working on a solution … 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: Recent Research in User Experience Context: What’s new and cool in the user experience world? Glad you asked that. Synopsis: The line between user experience and code becomes less important every day. The underlying technologies are the literal manifestations … Continued