If you don’t like change, you’re going to like voice control, chatbots, and augmented reality even less.
Title: How the future of the user interface will redefine your job Context: Job descriptions evolve. Professional skills change. The gainfully employed understand and embrace this. Synopsis: The world is changing. Easy statement to make, because it’s always true. The … Continued
On the internet there’s only 2 kinds of loading speed: acceptable and freakin’ forever.
Title: A Designer’s Guide to Perceived Performance Context: It’s not how fast you are, it’s how fast your users think you are. Synopsis: Einstein tells us that time is relative. Counterintuitively, the faster a body moves through space the slower … Continued
Your UI says “tomato” but I say “بندورة”.
Title: Design for internationalization Context: Not everyone speaks the same language, and everyone certainly doesn’t speak the same language as your UI. Synopsis: According to the most recent statistics the average global digital consumer owns almost 4 connected devices. Of … Continued
#ux iota: That’s why Satan’s phone number is 666-666-6666
Title: If Satan was a web designer… Context: Web forms aren’t evil. Web form designers on the other hand… Best Bit: None of these examples also show a captcha. Even Satan refuses to go there. via uxdesign.cc
Finally! A “What to Expect in 2017” list that does not include the words: “Donald Trump”.
Title: The State of UX in 2017 Context: 2017 is going to be an interesting year. Also, some cool and crappy UI’s will be designed. Synopsis: What does the future hold? Only a fool tries to predict an answer to … Continued
Thanksgiving: Family, food, football, and most importantly, fantastic UX #GiveUXThanks
Title: Give Thanks for Good UX Context: It is the time of year for all of us to be thankful. Mostly for being designers and not developers. Just kidding. (Not kidding.) Synopsis: Ah Thanksgiving. One of America’s greatest holidays. A … Continued
If it ain’t broke, redesign it.
Title: Makeover Mania: Inside the 21st-Century Craze for Redesigning Everything Context: There is nothing new under the sun. Which is why it all should be redesigned from the ground up. Including the sun. Synopsis: People get used to the familiar. … Continued
In reality the election may in fact be rigged…by incredibly crappy design.
Title: Disenfranchised by Bad Design Context: It’s not just a bad idea to have confusing, poorly designed ballots for elections, in many cases, it’s also the law. Seriously. Synopsis: Voting can be stressful. Not because the choice of candidates can … Continued
#ux iota: Designers that go BOO! in the night.
Title: 8 Delightfully Creepy Design Projects Just In Time For Halloween Context: There’s nothing scarier than a designer with an idea. Best Bit: “The skull with the bees is especially unsettling, making us want to tap into our inner Nic … Continued
#ux iota: For Halloween are you dressing up as “Jony Poison Ive” or “Mass-murder Vignelli”?
Title: Halloween Costumes for Designers Context: And no, there is not a “Sexy UI Designer” costume in the whole lot. Best Bit: It’s visually pun-tastic! via thedesignteam.io
Sell drugs, addict 1 person, go to jail. Build an app, addict a billion, become a tech titan!
Title: The scientists who make apps addictive Context: “You can’t make people do something they don’t want to do.” Wanna bet? Synopsis: For all of its wondrous complexity, the human brain remains an imperfect machine. It cuts corners at times, … Continued
On a scale of 1 to 10 how likely are you to rate our product a 10?
Title: Net Promoter Score: What a Customer-Relations Metric Can Tell You About Your User Experience Context: Not everything that can be measured matters and not everything that matters can be measured. Synopsis: Actionable metrics are the Holy Grail of UX. … Continued
Never mind the rest of the design, don’t you just hate those hairy arms?
Title: What’s With All Of The ‘Hairy Arms’ In Graphic Design? Context: Distraction is the better part of design valor. Synopsis: Many times, opinions are given simply for the sake of being heard. Or worse, just because someone’s position allows … Continued
#ux iota: Cataloging UI animations into a periodic table format. It’s just science.
Title: Motion Periodic Table Context: It’s not the size of the animation that matters, it’s the motion in the periodic table. Best Bit: Come for the stunning animations. Stay, well, for the stunning animations. via foxcodex.html.xdomain.jp
It’s not what you know, it’s what you can convince people to think you know that makes a great designer.
Title: How to pretend you’re a great designer Context: If you can’t BE a great designer, just PRETEND that you are. Really, who’ll know the difference? Synopsis: We are all design disruptors bringing holistic user-centric methodologies to the table in … Continued