Anyone Can Design, Only a Few Can Be Good
Design has never been more accessible than at this moment, and design is getting more and more accessible. Not only are design tools more user friendly, design thinking is a skill-set that is used from...
View ArticleBehavioral heuristics
Our field is moving slowly but steadily into the world of behavioral psychology. We’ve started to realize that it’s not just about designing good-looking products with usable interfaces, but about a...
View ArticleDefining Great User Experiences
Helen Waters was one of the jurors for the Interaction Design Awards 2012. During the reviewing process she discovered what actually defines a great user experience. It’s something that leaves tech...
View ArticleThe Psychologist’s View of UX Design
The article on UX Magazine is from 2010 and was related to Weinschenk‘s book Neuro Web Design: What Makes them Click. She shares several insights: People Don’t Want to Work: they will do the least...
View ArticleThe Importance of Transitions
In the article Cossey makes some valid points and shows great examples. It proves once again that designing great interfaces can’t be achieved by just sketching and wireframing, but also by...
View ArticleSolving Wicked Problems
The e-book is called Wicked Problems: Problems Worth Solving. It can be read online for free or you can order a solid copy. Jon Kolko talks about the idea behind this book in the video below: Designers...
View ArticleReapplying Hick’s Law
Gross starts the article ‘Redefining Hick’s Law‘ by stating that our view of Hick’s Law is strongly oversimplified and incomplete. He states that we’ve been focusing to much on links and clicks, which...
View ArticleDesign the Marketing First
Each year, when the new version of Encarta was finished, Microsoft would hire an agency to design the box. Looking at the finished product, they’d try to figure out how to convince people to buy the...
View ArticleGoogle Designs Augmented Reality Goggles
The project was announced in Google style, by placing a short post and video on Google+: “A group of us from Google[x] started Project Glass to build this kind of technology, one that helps you explore...
View ArticleJohnny moves on…
There are multiple reasons for this, but in short: we’ve reached a lot of the goals that we’ve wanted to and feel now that it’s time for others to pick up on this track. Our goal has always been to...
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