CATALOGING THE ART AND SCIENCE OF USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN
Title: UX and UI, Chicken and Egg Context: Wait for the next installment, when we discover that the reason the chicken crossed the road was to refactor its UI. Synopsis: While this short video includes some questionable Latin translations it … Continued
Title: Spoiler alert: The mouse dies. Touch and gesture take center stage Context: It’s a post-PC world people. Get busy adapting or get out of the way. Synopsis: “Alas poor mouse! I knew him well.” It may in fact be … Continued
Title: The Difference Between UI and UX Context: People are often confused by the difference between UI and UX. I’m assuming it’s all those U’s that are the problem. Synopsis: Long story short: UI is not UX. Nor is the … Continued
Title: Ex-Apple Designer Creates Teaching UI That “Kills Math” Using Data Viz Context: System complexity doesn’t have to be “just the way it is”. We are designers and it is our job to make things easier to use. That said, … Continued
Title: How Print Design is the Future of Interaction Context: The need to move beyond outdated real-world UI metaphors requires us to look towards print design for salvation. Wait…What?!?! Synopsis: Why oh why can’t we leave behind stylized interface design … Continued
Title: The “IxD Bauhaus” – what happens next? Context: Ornamentation in architecture is criminal says the Bauhaus. Perhaps the same thing is true for interaction design. Synopsis: Interesting polemic that draws several parallels between the current evolution of interaction design … Continued
Title: When is Learnability More Important than Usability? Context: Maybe it’s time we stop coddling our users at every turn and give them some credit for being able to learn new systems. Synopsis: Let’s get this out of the way … Continued
Title: Motion and The Clay of Interaction Design Context: Let your fingers do the walking. And the flipping. And the scrolling. And the resizing. And the… Synopsis: One thing that these emerging NUI (natural user interfaces) ask of UX designers … Continued
Title: Why You Want (But Won’t Like) a Minority Report-style Interface Context: “Gestural interfaces are surely the future.” “No they’re not. And stop calling me ‘Shirley’.” Synopsis: Once you get past the crappy acting, paper thin characters and cheesy dialogue, … Continued
Title: Little Big Details Context: Not only is the devil in the details, so is the elegance. Synopsis: Wonderful Tumblr site that showcases UI and interaction designs to be found in web, software, mobile, iconography – what have you – … Continued
Title: Open Source Gesture Library Context: Multitouch: Learn it. Live it. Love it. Synopsis: We’ve looked at multitouch interactivity before so it should be no secret that gestural UIs are poised to become an increasingly important part of every UX … Continued
Title: Make It So: What Interaction Designers can Learn from Science Fiction Interfaces Context: We help make the future, so what can we learn from cool sci-fi movies that will help us? Synopsis: The influence that visions of the future … Continued
Title: Sqetch, an Illustrator Wireframe Toolkit Context: Super cool vector UI templates with a slick hand-drawn feel. Synopsis: If you are looking to give your next wireframe presentation a bit of extra “oomph” (not that any of you guys need … Continued