CATALOGING THE ART AND SCIENCE OF USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN
Title: Designing the Spaces Between Context: An impassioned rant on the necessity for animations and transitions. As a member of the choir, I enjoy being preached to sometimes. Synopsis: Stuff in real life moves. Unless it doesn’t. Then it’s either … Continued
Title: How to Win the UX War Within Your Organization Context: In some organizations, getting buy-in for UX as a core business competency is fraught with difficulty and pitfalls. Imagine that. Synopsis: Isn’t it amazing how some people inside a … Continued
Title: MIT Creates Amazing UI From Levitating Orbs Context: When we talk about the future of the UI, let’s stop being so modest in our assumptions. Synopsis: Some brainbox dude from MIT has built a brain-melting prototype of a tactile … Continued
Title: Story-centered design: hacking your brain to think like a user Context: Fix your design process. Or, stop designing screens and start designing stories. Synopsis: As a user experience designer you probably think about everything in discrete chunks of interactivity … 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: Triumph of the Mundane Context: Smart devices require smart designers to build smarter user experiences. Synopsis: The internet of things is coming. All of your devices, appliances, vehicles, tools, even the places where you live and work will all … Continued
Title: You Cannot Think Like Thy Users Context: Think you know what your users need? Think again. Synopsis: Of course your opinions matter when you are designing a product. I mean that’s why we get paid the big bucks, right?* … Continued
The old breakfast-cereal-as-metaphor-for-your-UX-process infographic. via usabilitycounts.com
Title: 6 Disasters Caused by Poorly Designed User Interfaces Context: Don’t think good user experience matters? Care to stake your life on it? Because you just might lose it. Synopsis: Usually, when someone makes a poor user experience design decision … Continued
Do you suck at getting up in the morning? There’s an app for that. via bonkersworld.net
Title: Caine’s Arcade. A cardboard arcade made by a 9-year old boy. Context: We have all just lost any excuse we once had to not innovate our asses off. Synopsis: Remember when you were 9 and you went to your … Continued
How The Daily Show uses accessibility features to help write comedy. via uie.com
The following principles are fundamental to the design and implementation of effective interfaces, whether for traditional GUI environments or the web. Of late, many web applications have reflected a lack of understanding of many of these principles of interaction design, … Continued
Title: Decision Fatigue is Why Designers Need to Respect Consumers Context: Making your users make too many decisions makes them make other purchasing decisions. Synopsis: Click here or click there? Drag this and drop where? Right click or file menu? … Continued
Title: Creativity Lessons from Charles Dickens and Steve Jobs Context: Creativity comes to one only once one stops trying so hard to be creative. Synopsis: There is an accidental nature to creativity that flies in the face of those people … Continued