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The Top UX Trends of 2014

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UX Magazine Staff
UX Magazine was created to be a central, one-stop resource for everything related to user experience. Our primary goal is to provide a steady stream of current, informative, and credible information about UX and related fields to enhance the professional and creative lives of UX practitioners and those exploring the field. Our content is driven and created by an impressive roster of experienced professionals who work in all areas of UX and cover the field from diverse angles and perspectives.

Can Experience Design Make Tobacco Cool Again?

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UX Magazine Staff
UX Magazine was created to be a central, one-stop resource for everything related to user experience. Our primary goal is to provide a steady stream of current, informative, and credible information about UX and related fields to enhance the professional and creative lives of UX practitioners and those exploring the field. Our content is driven and created by an impressive roster of experienced professionals who work in all areas of UX and cover the field from diverse angles and perspectives.

Designing a UI to Generate Real Business Value

[email protected] | Pavel Kostychev
post authorPavel Kostychev

Pavel Kostychev
Pavel is an award-winning artist, graphic and user experience designer. With over 20 years experience in the field, Pavel has developed a design proficiency that is characterized by functionality and creative excellence. His skill set includes art direction, graphic design, GUI and application design, brand and corporate identity, web design, interactive animation (Flash), 2d animation, publishing, and illustration. Pavel was born in Moscow, Russia, and moved to Israel in 1991.

Implementing Customer Experience as an Organizational Value

[email protected] | Pete Kinser
post authorPete Kinser

Pete Kinser
Pete is based in Denver, Colo. and is the Director of Experience Strategy at Universal Mind where he leads strategy, design, and research projects and teams. He works with leaders to help educate and encourage human-centered mindsets within organizations. Pete received a bachelor's degrees in Design and Psychology and a master's degree in Information Science from the University of Missouri. He is also a Adjunct Professor at the University of Denver where he teaches courses focused on design-thinking, user-centered design and customer experience. You can also reach Pete via Twitter @petekinser

How Do We Design Experiences that Make a Difference?

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UX Magazine Staff
UX Magazine was created to be a central, one-stop resource for everything related to user experience. Our primary goal is to provide a steady stream of current, informative, and credible information about UX and related fields to enhance the professional and creative lives of UX practitioners and those exploring the field. Our content is driven and created by an impressive roster of experienced professionals who work in all areas of UX and cover the field from diverse angles and perspectives.

Half-Math and That Gushing Hole in Your Bucket

[email protected] | John Boykin
post authorJohn Boykin

John Boykin
John Boykin answers to user experience designer, information architect, interaction designer, information designer, and UX researcher. He’s been doing all of the above for over 10 years. Clients include Walmart, Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s, Blue Shield, Bank of America, Visa, Symantec, NBC, HP, Janus, Prosper, and Mitsubishi Motors. His site, wayfind.com, will tell you more than you want to know.

4 UX Lessons I Learned Playing with Toys

[email protected] | Agus Esperon
post authorAgus Esperon

Agus Esperon
Agus is a graphic designer and illustrator who specializes in motion graphics. He is the co-founder and UX and Art Director of Wideo, an online tool for intuitively creating animated videos without previous graphic design or video knowledge. He has vast experience making demonstrative videos for startups and big brands, including MTV, Nickelodeon, TNT, and Warner Channel.

Introducing a New World of Possibilities with “Appticipation”

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Mike Schneider
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Skyhook Wireless
Skyhook Wireless is a worldwide leader in location. In 2003, Skyhook gathered the world’s Wi-Fi access points and combined them with GPS and cell tower locations to build a global, 1st-party network providing the fastest, most accurate and battery-friendly location results. Today, Skyhook handles billions of requests, powering location and context for devices, apps, publishers, ad-tech, wearables, media, mobile device management, digital rights management, device recovery and more. Skyhook Wireless is a wholly owned Subsidiary of Liberty Media and True Position. To learn more about Skyhook, please visit skyhookwireless.com.

It’s Time to Push the Limits of UI Design

[email protected] | Dominic Quigley
post authorDominic Quigley

Dominic Quigley
Focusing on visual design, UI design, and the experience, Dominic is a key member of the Fjord London team. Over his 15 years experience he's worked with a wide range of clients including financial services, retail, telcos, property, travel and transport and technology brands. Dominic has led transformative projects at Fjord by leveraging key insights and strong experience in a wide range of design principles to bring to life innovative multi-channel, multi-context services. Fjord is part of Accenture Interactive.

How Do We Interact with Our Organizations?

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post authorUX Magazine Staff

UX Magazine Staff
UX Magazine was created to be a central, one-stop resource for everything related to user experience. Our primary goal is to provide a steady stream of current, informative, and credible information about UX and related fields to enhance the professional and creative lives of UX practitioners and those exploring the field. Our content is driven and created by an impressive roster of experienced professionals who work in all areas of UX and cover the field from diverse angles and perspectives.

Comparing Popular Layer-Based and Code-Based Prototyping Tools

[email protected] | Bona Kim
post authorBona Kim

Bona Kim
Bona Kim is a Lead Product Designer on Sing! Karaoke at Smule, a maker of social music creation mobile apps such as Sing Karaoke, Autorap, Guitar and Piano. Bona’s main responsibility is to create delightful user experience and seek new opportunities on the edge of mobile music technology. With background in design and interactive technology, her passion is to create meaningful connection worldwide via non-verbal interaction. Before joining Smule, Bona was a UX consultant in E-commerce sphere and an active artist at Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU. Her work was featured on Make magazine, Engadget, Gizmodo, Inhabitat and many more. You can follow her on Twitter at @artdesignlife and on Medium at @creativespirited.

Kicking Off the 2014 Design for Experience Awards

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UX Magazine Staff
UX Magazine was created to be a central, one-stop resource for everything related to user experience. Our primary goal is to provide a steady stream of current, informative, and credible information about UX and related fields to enhance the professional and creative lives of UX practitioners and those exploring the field. Our content is driven and created by an impressive roster of experienced professionals who work in all areas of UX and cover the field from diverse angles and perspectives.

Make Your App Vital By Reaching Out to Users in Context

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post authorSkyhook Wireless

Skyhook Wireless
Skyhook Wireless is a worldwide leader in location. In 2003, Skyhook gathered the world’s Wi-Fi access points and combined them with GPS and cell tower locations to build a global, 1st-party network providing the fastest, most accurate and battery-friendly location results. Today, Skyhook handles billions of requests, powering location and context for devices, apps, publishers, ad-tech, wearables, media, mobile device management, digital rights management, device recovery and more. Skyhook Wireless is a wholly owned Subsidiary of Liberty Media and True Position. To learn more about Skyhook, please visit skyhookwireless.com.

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Mike Schneider
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What a Prototype Is (and Is Not)

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post authorArijit Banerjee

Arijit Banerjee
Arijit Banerjee is a UI & UX Enthusiast. Although a power systems engineer by education, he has always found himself inclined toward the world of UX. He has been associated with several firms and has helped define experiences across a wide range of products. Apart from that, he's an avid user of Label.m products, a dog lover, and an out and out foodie with decent culinary skills.

What Does Design that Differentiates Look Like?

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post authorUX Magazine Staff

UX Magazine Staff
UX Magazine was created to be a central, one-stop resource for everything related to user experience. Our primary goal is to provide a steady stream of current, informative, and credible information about UX and related fields to enhance the professional and creative lives of UX practitioners and those exploring the field. Our content is driven and created by an impressive roster of experienced professionals who work in all areas of UX and cover the field from diverse angles and perspectives.

The Power of Disciplined Simplification

[email protected] | Allegra Burnette
post authorAllegra Burnette

Allegra Burnette
Allegra Burnette is a Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, serving customer experience professionals. Prior to joining Forrester in May 2014, Allegra was the creative director of digital media at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, where she oversaw design and production across interpretive technology, including the museum's website, MoMA.org, as well as mobile apps and sites, kiosks, and other digital displays.

Quickpanel: Redesign Democracy

[email protected] | Dirk Knemeyer
post authorDirk Knemeyer

Dirk Knemeyer
Dirk Knemeyer is a social futurist and a founder of Involution Studios. He has provided consulting, design, and technology to some of the best companies in the world including Apple, Microsoft, Oracle, PayPal, and Shutterfly. Dirk’s writings have been published in places like Business Week and Core77. He has keynoted conferences in Europe and the U.S. and spoken at venues like TEDx, Humanity+, and South by Southwest. Dirk has participated on 15 boards in industries including healthcare, publishing, and education. He holds a Master of Arts in Popular Culture from Bowling Green State University and a Bachelor of Arts in English from The University of Toledo.

Comparing Four Popular, Page–Based, Interactive Prototyping Tools

[email protected] | Bona Kim
post authorBona Kim

Bona Kim
Bona Kim is a Lead Product Designer on Sing! Karaoke at Smule, a maker of social music creation mobile apps such as Sing Karaoke, Autorap, Guitar and Piano. Bona’s main responsibility is to create delightful user experience and seek new opportunities on the edge of mobile music technology. With background in design and interactive technology, her passion is to create meaningful connection worldwide via non-verbal interaction. Before joining Smule, Bona was a UX consultant in E-commerce sphere and an active artist at Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU. Her work was featured on Make magazine, Engadget, Gizmodo, Inhabitat and many more. You can follow her on Twitter at @artdesignlife and on Medium at @creativespirited.

What is Empathy?

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post authorSeung Chan Lim

Seung Chan Lim
Seung Chan (Slim) believes people who are in empathic relationships not only have lives that are more healthy & meaningful, but also more creative & effective. As an executive coach & meta-designer, he helps executives (re)design their leadership & organization: a process that challenges them to develop such relationships not only with their team & customers, but also themselves.

Slim has spent 18 years exploring the role of design & empathy in innovation. He has spoken at Harvard Business School, Cornell Johnson School of Management, McGill's Desautels Faculty of Management, Rotman School of Management, SAP TechEd, FUSE, and TEDx. He has also authored an award-winning book titled "Realizing Empathy: An Inquiry into the Meaning of Making." Slim's past clients include American Eagle, Eaton, General Electric, Merill Lynch, Siemens, and Whirlpool. Innovation efforts he's partaken have won awards such as the CES innovation award.

Slim's journey started with helping fortune 500 companies innovate. From this experience, he learned that companies struggling to innovate have to overcome their unawareness & bias toward their customers before they can innovate. The muscle required to do so? Empathy.

Slim then conducted anthropological research on how artists innovate. From this experience, he learned that visual & performing artists struggling to innovate have to overcome their unawareness & bias toward themselves, their subject matters, or their materials before they can innovate. The muscle required to do so? Empathy.

Slim now helps CEOs develop a culture of innovation. From this experience, he sees that CEOs are like artists: mired in so much uncertainty and complexity that it's no wonder they feel lonely, isolated, and anxious. So Slim helps them manage or overcome the unawareness & bias underlying such uncertainty, complexity, loneliness, isolation, and anxiety. Why? So they can more effectively lead their organization through growth & innovation. How? By helping them develop the muscle required to do so. Empathy.

Card Decks: Tactile Tools for Pattern Finders, Integrative Thinkers, and Inspiration Seekers

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post authorStephanie Gioia

Stephanie Gioia
Stephanie leads the consulting practice at XPLANE, a Portland-based business design consultancy that helps large organizations clarify, communicate, and achieve their goals. She also curates a library of card decks and resources for deck designers at deckaholic.com. Prior to XPLANE, Stephanie worked with IDEO on envisioning the future of design thinking.  Stephanie led process and organizational design programs at the financial services firm UBS and power company AES. Stephanie holds a bachelors degree in history and government from Georgetown University and an MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.

Can Technology Change the Experience of Writing?

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post authorJosh Tyson

Josh Tyson
Josh Tyson is the co-author of the first bestselling book about conversational AI, Age of Invisible Machines. He is also the Director of Creative Content at OneReach.ai and co-host of both the Invisible Machines and N9K podcasts. His writing has appeared in numerous publications over the years, including Chicago Reader, Fast Company, FLAUNT, The New York Times, Observer, SLAP, Stop Smiling, Thrasher, and Westword. 

Tips for Guerrilla Research with Teenagers

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post authorNirish Shakya

Nirish Shakya
Nirish Shakya is a Senior Experience Consultant and Coach at Webcredible, a leading UX agency in London. He has been designing products across multiple channels including web, mobile and in-store for big name clients in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore, including financial institutions, universities, telcos, and not-for-profits. He has been in the ICT industry for almost 10 years, starting off as a developer and UI designer and then diving head first into UX design five years ago. He is also a regular speaker and a passionate advocate of experience-driven profitability at design and technology forums. Nirish was born in Nepal and has lived in Sydney for the past 11 years and now calls London home. He practices Vipassana meditation for compassion and Wing Chun kungfu for efficiency.

Best Practices for Medical App Development Go Beyond Standard UX

[email protected] | Mithun Sridharan
post authorMithun Sridharan

Mithun Sridharan
Mithun Sridharan is the Managing Director of Blue Ocean Solutions PLC, a Germany-based Inbound Marketing company focusing on Technology companies. He brings with him over ten years of International experience in Business development, Marketing, Global Delivery and Consulting. He holds a Master of Business Administration from ESMT European School of Management and Technology, Berlin and Master of Science from Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Germany. He is a Harvard Manage Mentor Leadership Plus graduate, a Project Management Professional (PMP) and a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA). He also served as the Communication Chair for the German Outsourcing Association in 2013 and is based in Heidelberg, Germany.

Quickpanel: More UX Futures

[email protected] | Mary Jean Babic
post authorMary Jean Babic

Mary Jean Babic
Mary Jean really enjoys drawing on her journalism and writing background to help tell the Rosenfeld Media story. After graduating from Northwestern University, she was a daily newspaper reporter in Michigan for six years. After that, she embarked on a life of fiction and freelance writing, earning master's degrees from Johns Hopkins University and Warren Wilson College. She's a frequent contributor to university publications, counting Michigan, Columbia, and Cornell among her clients. Her short fiction has appeared in the literary journals The Missouri Review and The Iowa Review.

UX as the New SEO: an interview with Marianne Sweeny

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post authorJason Gillard

Jason Gillard
Jason Gillard, a writer for Media Contour, is a designer who understands user experience, interaction design, usability, and prototyping and adds to that strong visual design skills. He has been described as a UX Unicorn, that mythical creature with adaptive design skills, but prefers to be compared to the Ox. In spite of his visual design adroitness he believes that simplicity is the key to great experiences. This simplicity can be achieved through the design of an experiential framework, which creates a dialogue with the user, rather than the design of art assets, which create a single impression.Jason sees design as an ongoing conversation that adapts and responds to the changing needs of the audience. Converse with Jason on Twitter.

Five Movements in Design That We Should Pay Attention To

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Amy Cueva
Amy Cueva is Founder, Chief Experience Officer and healthcare principal at Mad*Pow. Amy’s passion for human-centered design has been demonstrated repeatedly in her work for clients like New England Journal of Medicine, Google, Aetna, Fidelity and McKesson. Leading a team of equally fired-up designers, Amy has created strong multi-channel experience strategies, intuitive digital experiences and streamlined processes for Mad*Pow’s clients.

Win This Book! Intertwingled

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UX Magazine Staff
UX Magazine was created to be a central, one-stop resource for everything related to user experience. Our primary goal is to provide a steady stream of current, informative, and credible information about UX and related fields to enhance the professional and creative lives of UX practitioners and those exploring the field. Our content is driven and created by an impressive roster of experienced professionals who work in all areas of UX and cover the field from diverse angles and perspectives.

The Future of Wearable Technology in Pictures

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UX Magazine Staff
UX Magazine was created to be a central, one-stop resource for everything related to user experience. Our primary goal is to provide a steady stream of current, informative, and credible information about UX and related fields to enhance the professional and creative lives of UX practitioners and those exploring the field. Our content is driven and created by an impressive roster of experienced professionals who work in all areas of UX and cover the field from diverse angles and perspectives.

Crowdsourcing Is Social, but Does Not a Social Network Make

[email protected] | Shay Ben-Barak
post authorShay Ben-Barak

Shay Ben-Barak
Shay Ben-Barak (@ShayUXD) is a freelance experience strategist and senior usability expert. For the last 15 years he is leading projects from the early inventive stages of understanding the users' needs, throughout the process of concept design, to the detailed interaction design and visual design. He is experienced with mobile devices, legacy applications and web applications, and he was involved with development of consumers apps as well as complex systems (e.g. financial, medical, ERP and C4I systems) for professionals. Shay is also a UX mentor at the Google Campus TLV which is a pro bono publico activity of mentoring startups and entrepreneurs in their initial steps towards their very first UX prototype. Shay owns a master's degree (M.Sc.) in cognitive science from the Technion and his master thesis about Mental Models was published in chapter 5 in this book.

Creating a Cultural Fit

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post authorPeter Morville

Peter Morville
Peter is a pioneer of the fields of information architecture and user experience. His bestselling books include Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, Intertwingled, Search Patterns, and Ambient Findability. He advises such clients as AT&T, Cisco, Harvard, IBM, Macy’s, Vodafone, the Library of Congress, and the National Cancer Institute. He has delivered conference keynotes and workshops in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. His work has been covered by Business Week, NPR, The Economist, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. Peter lives in Ann Arbor with his wife, two daughters, and a dog named Knowsy. He blogs at intertwingled.org.

Why Even Print Projects Need UX

[email protected] | Tom Schneider
post authorTom Schneider

Tom Schneider
Tom Schneider is a former VP of The Usability Professionals Association (Philadelphia) and the UX Partner of UX&ART (www.uxandart.com). He is the creator of UserXman; the user experience super-hero, and is currently working on a new book, UX Alchemy: Transformational UX Design. Tom studied philosophy and painting before he was hired at Boeing as an artist. There he was tasked with designing Boeing's first corporate intranet. He helped establish some of the first information architecture best practices used in Web design and continued as a Art Director, Web Designer, and user experience advocate. He has spent the past 12-plus years in the advertising industry serving clients in aerospace, transportation, hospitality, B2B, healthcare, and consumer products. While at Rosetta he helped standardize the practice of Program Architecture and experience design while focusing on personalized experiences and designing experience programs to drive users through the marketing continuum of awareness, engagement, conversion, loyalty, and advocacy. Tom spent a year in Moscow where he wrote the first of several screenplays and recently has undertaken songwriting much to the dismay of his kids; Mack, Ava, and Lydia.

Making Mobile Design More Productive in Three Simple Steps

[email protected] | Will Hacker
post authorWill Hacker

Will Hacker
Will Hacker is a Manager of Interaction Design at Cars.com, where he leads a team responsible for experience design and usability for a portfolio of consumer- facing automotive shopping, research, and financing products. Will is the author of Mobile Prototyping With Axure 7, and his work has appeared in Boxes and Arrows, Mobile Commerce Daily, Smashing Magazine, UX Booth, UX Magazine, and UXmatters. You can follow his tweets at @willhacker or visit his website at willhacker.net.

Win This Book! How to Transform Your Ideas into Software Products

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post authorUX Magazine Staff

UX Magazine Staff
UX Magazine was created to be a central, one-stop resource for everything related to user experience. Our primary goal is to provide a steady stream of current, informative, and credible information about UX and related fields to enhance the professional and creative lives of UX practitioners and those exploring the field. Our content is driven and created by an impressive roster of experienced professionals who work in all areas of UX and cover the field from diverse angles and perspectives.

QuickPanel: UX Futures

[email protected] | Mary Jean Babic
post authorMary Jean Babic

Mary Jean Babic
Mary Jean really enjoys drawing on her journalism and writing background to help tell the Rosenfeld Media story. After graduating from Northwestern University, she was a daily newspaper reporter in Michigan for six years. After that, she embarked on a life of fiction and freelance writing, earning master's degrees from Johns Hopkins University and Warren Wilson College. She's a frequent contributor to university publications, counting Michigan, Columbia, and Cornell among her clients. Her short fiction has appeared in the literary journals The Missouri Review and The Iowa Review.

Five Tips for Experience Designers Working to Improve Healthcare Innovation

[email protected] | Tracy Brown
post authorTracy Brown

Tracy Brown
Tracy started as a digital designer in London during the late 90's. "It was a great time to start because you had to do so much: graphic design, front end development, content development, Information Architecture etc. The methodologies weren't formalised, and mostly we just had to take chances and figure stuff out as we went. Good old trial and error!" Since then she has worked within agencies, corporate institutions, charities and with small business owners, picking up rich information about users and stakeholders, the creative process and the not so creative process. Her relatively diverse background in creative direction, visual design and front end development makes her a (proud) generalist. "Sometimes I get to work with specialists, working to create intuitive, elegant interfaces and experiences that a business can be proud of and that their customers can enjoy. I help enterprises of all varieties to think about how to create experiences that are useful to their customers before they attempt to make them usable. I am always looking for different tools and methods, with the main aim of helping people to get to the crux."

It’s About Time

[email protected] | Hunter Whitney
post authorHunter Whitney

Hunter Whitney
Hunter Whitney is a consultant, author, and instructor who brings a distinct UX design perspective to data visualization. He has advised corporations, start-ups, government agencies, and NGOs to achieve their goals through a thoughtful, strategic design approach to digital products and services. Hunter is the author of "Data Insights: New Ways to Visualize and Make Sense of Data”. He was also asked to contribute a chapter in the book, “Designing for Emerging Technologies: UX for Genomics, Robotics, and the Internet of Things”. Additionally, Hunter has written numerous articles covering a range of subjects for various online and print publications including UX Magazine.

CUBI: A User Experience Model for Project Success

[email protected] | Corey Stern
post authorCorey Stern

Corey Stern
Corey Stern is a User Experience Designer at The Nerdery with over 15 years experience creating engaging interactive media for agency, startup, and Fortune 500 clients. His areas of expertise include user experience, strategy, user-centered design, user engagement, interactive design, web/mobile design and visual design. Corey graduated from Academy College in Minneapolis, Minnesota with an Associates Degree in Multimedia and Graphic Design. Follow Corey on Twitter.

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