CATALOGING THE ART AND SCIENCE OF USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN
Title: Calm Technology Context: Rather than doing more, better, faster perhaps technology should instead take a chill pill once in a while. Synopsis: We all know what technology is about: speed, ubiquity, efficiency, choice, distractions, confusion, panic! Hold on. Seem … Continued
Title: Looks Can Kill: The Deadly Results of Flawed Design Context: Sometimes the end-user impact of a poor design is a lot higher than “I don’t like how this works.” Synopsis: No designer sets out to intentionally kill his or … 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: The Internet of Things Needs Design, Not Just Technology Context: We’ve finally hit the point where we all agree that technology without design is bad, right? RIGHT?!?! Synopsis: A fully networked world is coming. Your toaster will talk to … 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: The UX of UP: Urinals and Usability Context: All UX designers must wash their hands before returning to work. Synopsis: UX can be found all around us. Yes even…in there. Our natural bodily functions — as gender-specifically universal as … Continued
Title: 4 Design Lessons From The Pixar Team Context: Pixar doesn’t just “make” movies, they design them. And like all design, they have a process. Synopsis: Creative genius is messy. You could not possibly recreate the superlative talents of a … Continued
Title: The Obvious, the Easy, and the Possible Context: It’s not a question of minimizing complexity, it’s rather about optimizing obviousity [sic]. Synopsis: They never said it would be easy. In this case, “they” are most likely “us” (if “us” … Continued
Title: Should Tech Designers Go With Their Guts — Or the Data? Context: Can design efficacy be quantified by data alone? God, I hope not. Synopsis: Data is a mere tool, yet it is often mistaken for truth. It can … Continued
Title: The Story of Doug Dietz: Creative Confidence in the MRI Suite Context: When design is at its best it doesn’t make products better, it makes people’s lives better. Synopsis: It is entirely possible to design something and convince yourself … Continued
Title: 25 Ideas Shaping The Future Of Design Context: The future of design as imagined by today’s leaders of design. Not you guys…those other leaders of design. Synopsis: What does the future hold in store for the professional practice of … Continued
Title: The Science of Happy Design Context: Rather than efficient, connected, and smarter what if we instead designed technology to make us happy? Synopsis: If you wrote down all of the values that we aspire to when working towards a … Continued
Title: A Common Design Taxonomy Context: Need a model to use when scoping the necessary design impact required for a given problem? “Common Design Taxonomy” to the rescue! Synopsis: What is design? Had to think about that for a minute … Continued
Title: The Expanding Role of User Experience Design Context: Apparently, the design business is thriving. Synopsis: Hey, guess what? We were right all along! Design is arguably the single most important part of just about any business and the meteoric … Continued
Title: The Top UX Predictions for 2015 Context: Enough with looking back on the old year in design. More importantly, what does the future hold in store? Synopsis: Hindsight is 20/20. Conversely, we are all equally blind when it comes … Continued