Luke. I am your father! Plus I opted you in to my mailing list by default!
Title: 6 Evil UX Things Companies Do (That Also Happen to Work) Context: Dark side UX is the father of invention. Really crappy invention, but invention nonetheless. Synopsis: User experience as a term is actually neutral. All it denotes is … Continued
To slot or not to slot. That is the question.
Title: The Mysteries of the Cereal Box: The complicated history of how a cereal box closes Context: Sometimes small design decisions can mean a lot. But not always. Synopsis: Did you have cereal this morning? Did your cereal come in … Continued
#ux iota: Our mobile app…resistance is futile.
via xkcd.com
Mine? Yours? Who cares? Users do.
Title: Yours vs. Mine Context: Words matter. How to use language correctly in your UI. Synopsis: How much ownership do you really feel over an interface? Maybe it’s “my” email, but is it “my” Gmail? Complexity exists even in the … Continued
One man’s design process can be another man’s design ‘con’cess. (See what I did there?)
Title: Design Process is a Myth Context: My way or the highway does not a design process make. Synopsis: Prescriptive design processes are like prescription shoes, sure they may fit a lot similarly sized people but they are going to … Continued
Space…The final frontier…Of design…And other stuff too…
Title: Akin’s Laws of Spacecraft Design Context: You may not be designing a spaceship, but it probably often feels like you are designing something just as complex. Synopsis: Imagine the hardest thing in the world to design. OK. Got it? … Continued
You can debate the usability of infographics, but you can’t debate an infographic about usability.
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
UX is so 2012. But in a good way…
Title: Five Big UX Topics in 2012 Context: Wait! It’s still January right? We can still talk about 2012 then?!?! Synopsis: So, now they come crawling back. Begging on hands and knees, employing us user experience practitioners to save their … Continued
Technology without design would be a mistake.
Title: Disruptions: Design Rivals Technology in Importance Context: Design is the new killer app. Synopsis: Quick, what kind of processor does the device you are reading this on have? I bet you don’t know any more than I know what … Continued
#ux iota: Yes? No? Ok? Cancel? Maybe? Who cares? You should.
“Should I use Yes/No or Ok/Cancel on my message box?” Good question. Difficult to answer. via ux.stackexchange.com
Tell me, I’ll forget. Show me, I’ll remember. Build me a walkthrough, I’ll have preferred a more intuitive UI.
Title: If you see a UI walkthrough, they blew it Context: In a world without labeled controls, the first guy who can manage to guess the correct gesture is king. Synopsis: The natural user interface (or NUI for an acronym … Continued
