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- The UX Design Process for the Boxee Beta
More than a year ago I very proudly announced that Boxee , the much-loved social media center software company, had hired me as the user experience designer for their beta . In the five months that I worked with them, I conducted user interviews ...
Article - Whitney Hess - March 02, 2010 - 11 comments - 0 attachments
- Dashboard UIs: An Introduction
Most interfaces are designed for use on a desktop, or more precisely, from behind a desk. They assume you're in a comfortable position, seated on a chair with screen and keyboard directly in front of you. Most times this assumption is appropriate becaus ...
Article - Max Steenbergen - February 23, 2010 - 6 comments - 0 attachments
- Predictable Design
The $64,000 question in software industry today is: How do you transform a software design process into its ideal form—an objective, deliberate activity that furthers the cause of commerce—from its typically subjective, clumsy one, which always seem ...
Article - Nishant Kothary - February 22, 2010 - 13 comments - 0 attachments
- Onboarding: Designing Welcoming First Experiences
Last May I was given the great privilege to write a sidebar in Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone 's fabulous new book, Designing Social Interfaces . The topic I was asked to write about is " onboarding "—designing welcoming experiences ...
Article - Whitney Hess - February 16, 2010 - 18 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
- Toward a better tablet OS, part 1
Part two of this article can be found here . As an exploration into the creation of a true tablet computing device, I wrote the piece you are about to read, which, while originally a single 3500-word monster, has been split into ...
Article - Devin Coldewey - February 03, 2010 - 0 comments - 0 attachments
- Change Blindness
Depending on what we focus on, our brains can be completely blind to obvious changes going on around us. This is called "change blindness," and it is unnerving when you observe it. Below are a few examples of this in action. This first video ...
Article - Michael Grossman - January 18, 2010 - 7 comments - 0 attachments
- Lessons from Ikea
Chances are you've come in contact with a piece of flat-pack furniture from Ikea . You may even have put a shelf or desk together with the help of an allen wrench and a single-sheet instruction manual. Ikea has successfully innovated in pricing, logi ...
Article - Alex Schleifer, Jonathan Anderson | UX Magazine - January 12, 2010 - 10 comments - 0 attachments
- Product Sonification
We spoke with Karel Barnoski, an award-winning audio designer who has integrated sound into products and experiences ranging from stoves to cameras. Karel shares his keen insights about how the language of sound relates to interaction design and UX, ...
Article - Karel Barnoski - December 29, 2009 - 7 comments - 0 attachments
- Free stop motion animation tool
As a follow-up to this post about how Chris Neale uses stop motion techniques to animate paper prototypes , Chris has just announced the release of The Anitomizer , a free stop-motion animation tool. Check it out… Article Image: ...
Article - UX Magazine Staff - December 12, 2009 - 0 comments - 0 attachments