#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
“Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?” —Icons
Title: History Of Icons Context: Iconography: 40 years later and we’re right back where we started. Synopsis: Of all the GUI’s contributions to the canon of design, none is so significant, and fraught with passionate debate as the lowly icon. … Continued
Quick: what company is designing the best software right now? Everyone who said “Apple” go and Google “shame”.
Title: How Google Finally Got Design Context: If Google can achieve design superiority, anyone can. I hope. Synopsis: Remember how the minimal, search-box-only approach to “design” that Google built its empire upon was viewed as a success in spite of … Continued
Fake it till you make it. Or: Prototype it till you motorbike it. (Sorry, not many words rhyme with “prototype”)
Title: Behind the scenes: Design sprint with Gimlet Media Context: If you build it, they will come. But how do you know what to build in the first place? Design sprint prototypes. You’re welcome. Synopsis: The Greatest Idea In The … Continued
Android and iOS and Windows Phone user settings! Oh my!
Title: The UX of Mobile Settings Context: System settings are a garden of weeds that grows increasingly impenetrable the longer it goes untended. Synopsis: The need to change a user setting can end one of two ways. The first outcome … Continued
People who are “all thumbs” will inherit the earth.
Title: How to design for thumbs in the era of huge screens Context: Larger screens yield a better user experience. As long as you don’t consider your thumbs to be users. Synopsis: The apocryphal origin of the long necked giraffe … Continued
Designing for a specific screen size first guarantees one thing: users are last.
Title: Mobile First? Not So Fast. Context: “Mobile first!” is the lazy UX designer’s rallying cry. Understanding context is hard. Synopsis: Why should we design for mobile devices first? Because industry thought leaders tell us to? Because executive stakeholders have … Continued
Don’t just design, do. I mean do design, but also do other things. Oh, forget it…
Title: From Design To iOS7 Prototype Context: Hack your way to iOS7 mastery in a single day! Synopsis: How would you go about learning how to design for a new operating system? Read spec documentation? Style sheets? GUI guidelines? How … Continued
iOS 7 is the greatest thing since sliced bread! But what’s so great about sliced bread anyway?
Title: iOS 7 User-Experience Appraisal Context: Lots of hype around iOS 7 usability improvements. But how much of it is warranted? Synopsis: As we play our never ending game of “keeping up with the latest OS improvements”, our most recent … Continued
What will 2014 hold for the designer vs developer sibling rivalry? More bitching and moaning apparently.
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
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
I for one welcome our new robotic mobile personal telepresence alter-ego overlords.
Title: Can’t Make The Meeting? Send Your Robot Instead Context: WANT!!!!! God as my witness, I’ll never go into the office again… Synopsis: “It’s the next best thing to being there.” That old chestnut may actually be about to come … Continued
There’s more than one way to skin a cat. And even more ways to build a UI. Gross but true.
Title: When Should We Use App, Responsive and Mobile Design? Context: So many platforms and so little time to design for all of them. What’s the best approach? Synopsis: The world is going mobile. That’s great but what does that … Continued
#ux iota: Good UX: Wakes your ass up.
Do you suck at getting up in the morning? There’s an app for that. via bonkersworld.net
Any sufficiently advanced user experience would be indistinguishable from delight.
Title: Passive magic, design of delightful experience Context: Filling your end users with delight is rarely easy, but always rewarded. Synopsis: This is basically just a collection of really cool (read: delightful) user experiences. From hardware to software, and all … Continued