CATALOGING THE ART AND SCIENCE OF USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN
Title: The First 15 Seconds Context: You only get one chance at a first impression. Even with software. Especially with software. Synopsis: Users are lazy. Users are vain. Users are selfish. Which is why, just like with teenagers, you have … Continued
Title: “How can they be so good?”: The strange story of Skype Context: A brief history of the program, and people, that reinvented telephony. Synopsis: How are great ideas born? Do they strike like a bolt of lightening, from parts … Continued
Title: Why People Don’t Understand How to Use Your Software Context: Cross functional teams are the best way to design software. And the worst. Synopsis: The biggest difference between the team designing the software and the people using it is … Continued
Title: Adium Reborn Context: Unsolicited (and attractive) redesign of a communication software stalwart. Synopsis: It seems like everyone is jumping on the redesign bandwagon these days. A couple of designers take on the task of updating the dated, yet functional, … Continued
Title: Product Strategy Means Saying No Context: “No” means “no”. Except when planning a product. In which case no one ever says “no”. Synopsis: The reasons to put that new feature in your product are endless. “Customers are demanding it!” … Continued
Title: UX designer or developer: Who will be king in 2014? Context: Nothing like the festive season of brotherly love to discuss who is going to get their butt kicked in the new year. Synopsis: Designers or developers? C’mon, pick … Continued
Title: Software usability Context: If pictures are worth a thousand words then infographics have to be worth a couple gazillion at least. Synopsis: You can talk about the benefits of software usability until you are blue in the face, but … Continued
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: 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: Design Changes and Power Context: People only fear the change they don’t have any control over. Synopsis: Personally, I love nothing more than software updates. Getting that popup telling me to download the newest version of the software I’m … Continued
Title: Designing Windows 8 or: How to Redesign a Religion Context: Windows 8 claims to be platform agnostic. Here’s how they challenged the gods of Windows. Synopsis: So Microsoft is coming out with another version of Windows. You there, with … Continued
Title: Integrating UX into Agile Development Context: You’re not Agile as long as the user experience guys are on the outside looking in. Synopsis: Of the numerous benefits of adopting an Agile development approach to any project, none is more … Continued