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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

Beauty is one of the oldest and most powerful concepts in human history—inspiring artists and lighting up cultural movements, philosophical debates, and, in modern times, curious scientific interest. Beauty is a desirable feature of the products we bu ...

Article - Catalina Butnaru - January 18, 2013 - 10 comments - 0 attachments

I often reach a point in large project where I wonder why nobody sat the decision makers down at the beginning of the process and really questioned their ability to make empathetic decisions. By this stage, selective user evidence has been disre ...

Article - Tracy Brown - January 15, 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

I have been trying to show on a web page escalating urgency by changing the colors on the surrounding box of a field slowly at first. The idea is to paint the box from blue and green toward red. Here is a sample of what I have created so far. It's ki ...

Resource - Stephen Shooster - January 04, 2013 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Recently I did something that most people would call a bit crazy. As I walked out of the office one Friday afternoon, a seemingly random thought came into my head: I should quit my job . Later that weekend, I did just that. Then I did the next logica ...

Article - Sarah Doody - December 18, 2012 - 9 comments - 0 attachments

According to Don Norman (author of Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things ) there are three levels of cognitive processing. The visceral level is the most immediate and is the one marketing departments look to when trying to ...

Article - David Moskovic - October 11, 2012 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

There is no single methodology for creating the perfect product, but you can increase your odds by understanding understand users' reasons for doing things. Mental Models gives you the tools to help you grasp, and design for, those reasons. Adaptive ...

Resource - Indi Young - October 11, 2012 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

  Emotional Design explores the deep influence the feelings that objects evoke have on consumers—from our willingness to spend thousands of dollars on Gucci bags and Rolex watches, to the impact of emotion on the everyday objects being desig ...

Resource - Donald Norman - October 11, 2012 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

  From 24 to 26 October 2012, content strategists from around the world will gather in Cape Town, South Africa, for the third annual Content Strategy Forum. There will be presentations and workshops by international authorities on content strate ...

Event - Kerry-Anne Gilowey - October 16, 2012 - 0 comments - 0 attachments