Category: UX

Iain HeathBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Jul 4 In my first story I promised that … over the course of a few stories, I’ll try and cover a few of the sciences we draw upon in our art as a creative community to create engaging experiences. And last time out I talked around how User Experience is … Product Ownership and… Continue reading User Experience is… providing certainty

Generally, nobody likes experiencing errors in everything. But as we are all getting more attached to digital products such as apps and websites, errors are almost inevitable. Be it a system crash, losing internet connection or wrong inputs, each of those miscarriages can simply lead us to the ‘bitter’ part of the user journey; the… Continue reading The error message that frustrates us

We like to think of ourselves as productive and effective. We spend 8 hours a day working. Yes, this time might be interrupted with lunch and coffee breaks, but we are still largely working using our computers and we justify the salary we bring back home. Now, what if you did an experiment and observe… Continue reading “The UI commute”: the actual reason why screens are burning you out

Voice interfaces have finally made the jump from science fictions to the realm of current technological possibilities. And it’s currently seeing a huge mass-market adoption. From the perspective of User Experience (UX) design, this is an opportunity to apply the principles of the user-centered design to shape the young technical capability. And we designers are… Continue reading Maybe your voice assistant needn’t do it all

What makes good experience? Three concepts from Don’s principles of interaction help to define good experience: Affordance Feedback System images To understand why and how they are important we will start from the concept of experience in Peircean Semiotics. Experience is the total content of appearances of an object from user’s first-person point of views.… Continue reading Good UX designs require three things to achieve

UX features where the iPhone X falls short (to an S9) The last part of the sub title above is in brackets because it is not about whether an S9 is a good phone; many other phones, most notably the LG range, also offer impressive features that have advantages over their Apple counterparts. So again, this… Continue reading Samsung S9 vs. iPhone X — A Usability Review

Amber DudleyBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing May 18 There are many websites and applications that I use frequently with a few being favorites of mine — Instagram, Youtube, and Amazon. When attempting to create an account on websites, we face the inevitable task of completing a sign up form. The ability to understand and effectively complete a web form is often… Continue reading 5 ways to make web forms accessible

I. Choice Reflects Value In 2014, the philosopher Ruth Chang gave a TED talk on “How to Make Hard Choices.” In it, she defines that “hard choices” are the ones where two commensurate options are desirable in different ways, but neither is more desirable than the other, overall. She gives the examples of deciding whether to… Continue reading One year later, a UX Researcher

Melanie PhillipsBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing May 9 As a web developer who enjoys making personal projects, trying to make my creations look nice (without a designer) is often the most difficult task. I’m new to design. I have to try really hard to make things look like they don’t belong in the Internet Archives, or worse, as one… Continue reading Top 5 free design tools for non-designers in 2019