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We are a species of beings that depend on one another. Scientists theorize humans have specially adapted neurons that help us feel what others feel, providing evidence that we survive through our empathy for others. We’re meant to be part of a t ...

Article - Nir Eyal - February 11, 2013 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

Comics are one of the oldest forms of communication and have gone through many permutations, from drawings on cave walls to War and Peace -sized graphic novels. Co-creator of OK/Cancel , an online comic about interface design , Kevin Chen ...

Article - Josh Tyson | UX Magazine - February 07, 2013 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

The world is almost entirely inhabited by mobile users, individuals who move through a multi-dimensional network of digital threads linking people and machines. U.N. Global Pulse reports that mobile is transforming the unlikeliest corners of our ...

Article - Joanna Proulx - February 06, 2013 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The manual: possibly the most awkward part of a user’s experience with a product. People avoid manuals whenever possible and designers try to build interfaces that need not rely on them . And yet, users and designers would certainly agree that yo ...

Article - Anastasios Karafillis - February 05, 2013 - 8 comments - 0 attachments

The release of Windows 8 has disturbed the current ecosystem of designing for device-specific platforms. Fortunately, instead of asking users to learn three different digital experiences (phone, tablet , browser), the latest operating system ...

Article - Tiffany Chow - February 04, 2013 - 2 comments - 0 attachments

It’s part of our daily work. We can’t imagine creating a product or an application without doing it: understanding the user. Most of the clients we work with at EffectiveUI already have a good understanding of their customers from a market p ...

Article - Rebecca Flavin - February 01, 2013 - 4 comments - 0 attachments

It seems like everywhere you look there’s an article about content : content strategy , content marketing, content management, content curation, etc., etc., etc. … By now, we can probably all agree that content is an important part of every user ...

Article - Melissa Rach - January 28, 2013 - 6 comments - 0 attachments

March 25, 2013 HxD is excited to celebrate their third year bringing together designers, technologists, product managers, researchers, entrepreneurs, visionaries, and dreamers representing a broad spectrum of companies and organizations in the hea ...

Event - Courtney Parkinson - January 29, 2013 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

All too often, strategies of every kind get stuck in a drawer—sometimes without being implemented or even reviewed after their initial creation and approval. One reason is that people forget the full definition “strategy,” which is a plan for achiev ...

Article - Meghan Casey - January 11, 2013 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Buttons, scrollbars, drop-down menus, borders, windows, rollers, cursors, and all sorts of other widgets are the playthings of UI designers . Buttons are for pushing, rollers are for rolling, and knobs are for turning. User experience deals with ...

Article - Andrew Zusman - January 07, 2013 - 1 comment - 0 attachments