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AVG’s new Windows 8 style UI (formerly known as Metro).
AVG is an anti-virus software. In anticipation of the upcoming Windows 8, they’ve just modernized their UI to look like Windows 8 style UI – what was formerly known as Metro. It used to look like...
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Object Lesson: Form Design
I was doing research for a project recently where I needed to calculate quarterback ratings off from 35-year old scanned in records. The records were produced with type writers back then, just trying...
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First Impression of BlackBerry 10’s New Design
Besides the big release of Microsoft Windows 8 OS, another potential hit at the beginning of 2013 must be BlackBerry 10. With glimpses at some of their key features from developer previews, I've tried...
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Are You Design-Driven? Probably Not.
The phrase “design-driven” seems to be used a lot these days. From design blogs to books on building corporate culture to marketing campaigns, everyone either thinks they are “design-driven” or need to...
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User Experience Research & Motorcycle Racing
I race motorcycles. I’m also a 20+ year veteran of user experience research. Believe it or not there are similarities. When I race, I have my knee on the ground as I lean the bike through the turns and...
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Communicating Complex Information
I was recently invited to speak at the Second Annual Symposium on Communicating Complex Information (SCCI). The goals of the conference, sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM)...
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Experiencing Mobile Application User Experience
The key to designing a mobile application is not how good it looks or how cool it’s state transitions are (think deleting an email and watching it crumple up into a ball and arc into the trash can...
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Sticky Navigation Pattern Solves Usability and Design Issues
Good website navigation is about good wayfinding. Wayfinding describes how we best orient ourselves by the use of signs and landmarks. So good navigation should clearly inform us as to where we are and...
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What’s new in iOS 7? Neither features nor functions, but user experience!
On June 10, 2013 Apple announced its new mobile operating system – iOS 7. It gained a lot of attention with its new visual style but was also controversial. Many people felt uncomfortable with the big...
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Amazon’s Wish List Problem
Someone gave me Quicken 2014 for Christmas. Don’t get me wrong, it was a good gift, a very practical gift, I needed it, and I’ll definitely use it, but compared to the other things on my Amazon wish...
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Secondary and Primary user Actions
One quick and easy way of making any application or website more usable is to identify primary actions and secondary actions. Primary actions are the most frequently used that guide the user along an...
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Dyson Air Blade & Thorough Design
When I was in college many moons ago, our prof would take us to everyday machines like copy machines, vending machines, elevators, etc. for an ad-hoc design evaluation. Every time I see one of those...
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OK-Cancel or Cancel-OK?
Here’s one of the epic questions in UX design: should the OK buttons be to the left of the Cancel button or should it be the other way round? Before I go into details, here’s the executive summary:...
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One Rule of UX Consulting
There is a rule in consulting that many professionals don’t seem to understand (or want to believe). This rule applies regardless of your specialty. It doesn’t matter whether you call yourself a UX...
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UX and the Spaces In-Between
I don’t spend a lot of time on Twitter. I have nothing against it, I just usually have other things to do. Recently though, a designer friend of mine, @mattbartholomew, tweeted something that got me...
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Ambushed by False Affordances
Affordances are what we directly perceive as a possibility for action. False affordances are very similar but differ in that these actions are actually undesired or impossible… we are tricked into...
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A Frank Lloyd Wright Approach to Digital Design
Frank Lloyd Wright was a pioneer, an Avant-Garde architect who broke free of the design traditions of his era. His ideals are still used in architecture today, and his buildings have stood the test of...
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UXify 2015: The Future of UX Design
I usually write blogs with an eye toward how I see our profession progressing so this one will be a bit different. For the past 2 years, the UX Design organization here at Infragistics has hosted a...
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The Power of Pumpkin Spice
There are almost three weeks of summer left, all of the leaves are still on the trees and I’m already craving pumpkin. How has this traditionally Thanksgiving flavor taken over the third of the year...
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Hearing Your Experience
One of the first things that comes to mind when you hear the term “user experience” is a whiteboard littered with wireframe sketches. The design of mobile applications and websites has become the face...
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Making Big Data Useful: Design, UX and Innovation
On October 23-24, 2015 I’ve been invited to speak at the User Centered Design (UCD) conference held annually in London. This is a more interesting conference than most (to me) because the talks center...
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ISTA 2015 | UX Design and Software Development
On 19 November, 2015 I have been invited to represent Infragistics at the Innovations in Software Technologies and Automation (ISTA) conference being held in Sofia, Bulgaria. I get to share the stage...
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The Stroop Effect and its Implications in UX Design
What happens when your brain is trying to process conflicting streams of information? Let’s find out. Read this list of colors to yourself: Red Green Blue Purple Black Brown Yellow Red Blue Pink Orange...
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Wireframing and Deadpool
You know wireframes. The white-gray-black series of doodles of your website, mobile app, rich app - that make the process proper, eliminate logical flaws and ultimately save project time. Cool. Except,...
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UXify 2016 Conference | Migrating from Desktop to Web and Mobile
UXify US is an annual half day conference about designing great digital experiences. This year’s fourth annual user experience conference, UXify, brings together the community of academics,...
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Public Speaking 101
Technorati Tags: Public Speaking,Conference,UX,User Experience,Stage Performance,Skills,Tips,Talks,Speaker,Session Gearing up to deliver a talk that lasts Who hasn’t been to a conference at least once...
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UXify 2016 Conference Follow-Up
Infragistics’ 4th annual user experience, UXify, took place this past Saturday, 9 April 2016 at our global headquarters in Cranbury, NJ. It was a fantastic event filled with presentations from thought...
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