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- The Practical and Legal Reasons Behind Designing for Accessibility
Accessibility is a central and, in many ways, fundamental component of user experience, so designers of mobile applications and mobile websites should feel compelled to make their products accessible to users with disabilities. Inaccessibility can frust ...
Article - Gregory P. Care, Dan Ross - October 16, 2012 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Five Things to Know When Designing a Windows 8 App
With the introduction of Microsoft Surface—an upcoming series of tablets hoping to merge the touch and desktop experience into one device that will run Windows 8 —the interest in Microsoft’s latest OS is on the rise. Microsoft is currentl ...
Article - Christina Seong, Valentina Ferrari - September 27, 2012 - 7 comments - 0 attachments
- Brand as Context in Interaction Design
I’m sure I was swearing allegiance to one brand over another as soon as I began to develop the capacity for critical thought. Reebok vs. Nike, Coke vs. Pepsi, SEGA vs. Nintendo, Apple vs. Microsoft—these warring companies were more than just brands ...
Article - Ben Fullerton - August 17, 2012 - 5 comments - 0 attachments
- New Design Practices for Touch-free Interactions
Touch interaction has become practically ubiquitous in developed markets, and that has changed users' expectations and the way UX practitioners think about human–computer interaction (HCI). Now, touch-free gestures and Natural Language Interaction ( ...
Article - Brian Pagán - May 07, 2012 - 1 comment - 0 attachments
- Why an Apple Fanboy Would Want to Work for Microsoft
Title 2: Improving the perceived importance of usability within organizations For most, working for Microsoft is like working for IBM, Motorola, or even Boeing. Mic ...
Article - Zachary Lym - August 31, 2011 - 7 comments - 0 attachments
- Information Resolution on the Windows Phone Series 7
In his iPhone Resolution video , information design expert Edward Tufte praised the information density and content resolution of the device . Known for evaluating Web interface designs by counting the quantity of links present, Tufte is a ...
Article - Luke Wroblewski - February 17, 2010 - 5 comments - 0 attachments
- Microsoft reboots the experience with new Windows Phone OS
Via Engagdet : "The phone operating system does away with pretty much every scrap of previous mobile efforts from Microsoft , from the look and feel down to the underlying code—everything is brand new." Video : Microsoft ...
Article - Alex Schleifer - February 15, 2010 - 7 comments - 0 attachments
- Toward a better tablet OS, part 2
Part one of this article can be found here . A man could write for days and not say all there is to say about optimizing a UI for multitouch and tablet use. So I'll limit my observations for now to a few specific cases having to do ...
Article - Devin Coldewey - February 05, 2010 - 9 comments - 0 attachments
- Speech Recognition Is Only Part of the Future
This article was originally published on Brad's blog, Feld Thoughts . A few weeks ago, Fred Wilson dictated a post on his blog, A VC , using his Nexus One phone . He also discovered Swype , a ...
Article - Brad Feld - February 01, 2010 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Google kills IE6
Google is officially phasing out their support for IE6 . This means we can all start working on more important things rather than debugging for old and quirky browsers. I think champagne is in order! Article Image: ...
Article - Constantinos Demetriadis - February 01, 2010 - 10 comments - 0 attachments