CATALOGING THE ART AND SCIENCE OF USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN
Title: UX Is a Canary in a Coal Mine Context: Happy designers = better products. So make sure your designers are happy dammit! Synopsis: Are you happy? Not always an easy question to answer I know. Happiness comes and goes, … Continued
Title: Brand voice and UX: A starter guide Context: Usable and boring loses out to usable with personality every single time. Synopsis: As designers of products we sometimes like to consider ourselves above the mundanity of branding. “Our calling is … Continued
Title: How Ideo Redesigned Monday to Be Less Awful Context: Hating Monday’s days are numbered thanks to design. Synopsis: Your alarm goes off in a shriek of canned, looping banality. Your calendar overflows with other miserable souls who too have … Continued
Title: Deliver the Future, Gradually Context: Everybody wants to design the next shiny new toy, just be sure that your customers are going to want to play with it first. Synopsis: The old(ish) saying tells us that the future is … Continued
Title: 11 Movements to Replace Common Things Context: Designers are problem solvers. We sometimes even solve problems that don’t really exist. Synopsis: Don’t you hate calendars? And fire hydrants? And door knobs? And child proof pill bottles? Especially child proof … Continued
Title: Dropbox’s Head of Design on the Dawn of Personalized Products Context: You can dictate the final destination, as long as you allow the user to help pick the route. Synopsis: Users—for some unfathomable reason—appear to have minds of their … Continued
Title: Everyone Deserves Great Design Context: A brief manifesto on the need for universally beneficial and demonstrably good design. Synopsis: Sometimes we look at design and treat it like a cute puppy; we “ohhh” and “ahhh” over it without every … Continued
Title: Designer Duds: Losing Our Seat at the Table Context: First no one in business listened to designers. Then they all did. Now only some do. But really, they all should. Synopsis: For a while there it looked like designers … Continued