CATALOGING THE ART AND SCIENCE OF USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN
Title: How To Achieve Simplicity In Design Context: The desire for simplicity is not the same as a commitment to simplicity. Synopsis: Everyone claims to love simplicity. “Things shouldn’t be difficult to use! Make it simple.” But dare to ask … 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: 100 Things You Should Know About People: #57 – There Are 4 Types Of Creativity Context: Sure you might be creative…but what type of creative are you? Synopsis: People are born creative. People must work to learn to be … Continued
Title: 9 Rules to Make Your Icons Clear and Intuitive Context: Put down the pirated copy of Photoshop and step away from the iconography. Synopsis: Icons are easy. All you need to do is to make a little picture of … Continued
Title: The Invisible Side of Design Context: Design should never be about the designer. It is always about the user. Synopsis: The best designs do not even exist for users. Which is exactly why it is so damn hard to … Continued
Title: Swiss Army Knives Context: When you try and do everything, you rarely have time to do everything right. Synopsis: Your project manager wants it all. Your marketing and sales teams want it all. And of course your customers certainly … 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
Title: The Difference between Artists and Designers Context: Where does art end and design begin? Synopsis: Art and design often get lumped together under the same “aesthetic” umbrella. But this is an unfairly simplistic view of both disciplines. Artists and … Continued
Title: The Good, Bad, The Creative (Thesis Documentary) Context: A design student interviews a bunch of people in a quest to figure out what makes good – or bad – design. Synopsis: Sometimes I forget how interesting college was. Instead … Continued
Title: Understanding Our Interaction Design History Context: Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. And yes that includes you too UX designers. Synopsis: In the grand scheme of things (digital) user experience design is a mere … Continued
Title: Usability in Icons Context: The successful icon is in the details. Synopsis: How should we choose which icon to use for representing a user action? Who cares, right? Icon-shmicon. Put a little picture up there and eventually after the … Continued
Title: What Makes a Good Designer Context: Design is a discipline, not a specialty. Synopsis: Are you an iPhone app designer? A WordPress designer? An email designer? If you answered yes to any of those questions, good luck staying employed. … Continued
Title: The Elements of Player Experience Context: Life is a game. So let’s start designing products that allow us to play games all day long. No, no, not Farmville… Synopsis: There is a growing trend across many HCI disciplines to … Continued
Title: 10 Ways to Be Creative Like a Kid Context: You’re as old as you feel. Same goes for your designs. Synopsis: My wife always tells people that she has 4 kids: our 3 children and me. I take tremendous … Continued
Title: The Virtual Designer Context: All glory is fleeting. Digital designs are lucky to be a fraction of that. Synopsis: We rarely work on anything concrete. Our designs are virtual, ethereal and, arguably, don’t even really exist at all. Yet … Continued