#ux iota: If at first you don’t succeed, you’ve failed.
Title: Inside the Museum of Failure Context: There’s nothing wrong with innovating and failing. There’s everything wrong with innovating and failing then refusing to learn anything from it. Best Bit: Inclusion of “Trump: The Game”. The Museum of Failure’s troll … Continued
Designers who don’t appreciate the genius of Frank Lloyd Wright are wrong.
Title: How Today’s Designers are Influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright’s Principles Context: Happy birthday Frank! Synopsis: In honor of Mr. Wright’s 150th birthday, this seems like an opportune time to gauge not only his influence on architecture, but on design … Continued
#ux iota: If it’s too loud, you’re too old. Or the volume slider is too poorly designed.
Title: Redditors are competing to design the most asinine volume sliders Context: No intentionally crappy UI element is so stupid that it is not plausibly legitimate. Best Bit: The original Reddit thread is worth its weight in decibels. via theverge.com
In principle design principles should simply be simple principles about design simplicity.
Title: In the future, design principles won’t be about design Context: Everybody has got design principles, but how many really live by them? Synopsis: Design principles are the new hotness. Can you even claim to be a design thinking company … Continued
I could empathize with you, but then my predatory instincts would kick in and I’d have to kill you.
Title: How to use empathy in design without killing millions of women Context: Empathy is neither good nor bad, it is in the eye of the beholder. Synopsis: Traditionally, empathy gets a pretty good rap. If you are empathetic, you … Continued
I for one welcome our new AI UX overlords.
Title: How Artificial Intelligence Could Help Fill Gaps In UX Design Context: You can’t please all your users all the time. Unless you have the help of an artificially intelligent UX design assistant. Synopsis: Of course, the inevitable, dystopian hellscape … Continued
I has’t designeth a new chandeli’r. Is’t not most wondrous?
Title: Transcript & Sketches from a Medieval Design Session Context: There are no new design problems under the sun. Synopsis: All of the experts will tell you that product design is a relatively new discipline within the scope of the … Continued
#ux iota: Hell hath no fury like a customer scorned by a very poor UI.
Title: Crappy Design – 2012 Honda Console Context: In the olden days, people would encounter a poorly designed experience and suffer through it in silence. It’s no longer the olden days. Best Bit: Pretty good design critique from a (very … Continued
The problem with your UI may not be how it’s designed, but how it’s written.
Title: 9 simple but powerful UX writing tips for designers Context: The person who would design should first know how to write. Synopsis: The root of simplicity is clarity. The conceit of design is that clarity is the product of … Continued
Everyone is a designer? Well that explains why everything’s so poorly designed then.
Title: Everyone is a designer. Get over it. Context: Controversial opinions being expressed on the internet?!?! What is this world coming to? Synopsis: Allow me to begin by nitpicking the very premise of this article, which is—dare I say—poorly designed. … Continued
#ux iota: United breaks UX.
Title: How United Onboards New Users Context: Want to book a flight on United via their mobile app? You are a damn fool. Best Bit: There is nothing—NOTHING!—”best” about this. via useronboard.com
Wondering what the future holds? Ask your design agency. They won’t know either.
Title: The Future Agency Context: Any prediction about the future is pure fiction. Until it isn’t. Synopsis: If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans. If you want to have him (or her!) ROTFL, tell him … Continued
#ux iota: Words certainly matter, but good typography matters more.
Title: The Consequences of Bad Typography Context: Making a dumb mistake happens to everyone. Making a dumb mistake that could have been avoided through the use of decently designed typography, well, that pretty much happens to everyone too. Just ask … Continued
Design is a business. And business is good.
Title: Design in Tech Report 2017 Context: If you’re a designer (and I’m assuming that you are) then good news: one day soon, business might actually start to perhaps appreciate what you bring to the table. Synopsis: The value of … Continued
I am not a crook! I am however a strong supporter of art and design to transform government.
Title: Nixon, NASA, And How The Federal Government Got Design Context: Remember the time when the federal government placed a premium on the power of design? Why are you laughing? Synopsis: President Ronald Reagan used to stump with an old … Continued