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Modals on Mobile: How to use them wisely

  • Analytics and Tracking, Design, Development, Direct Observation Research, Information Design and Architecture, Interaction Design, Interface and Navigation Design, Mobile Applications, Mobile Technology, Ubiquitous Computing

Modal dialogs have become a ubiquitous feature of mobile web design, but designers need to put more thought into when to use them, and when to leave them out.

Article by Chris Wigley
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Designers as Innovators, and a Story About Coffee

  • Agile and Iterative Process, Consumer products, Design, Direct Observation Research, Empathy, Interaction Design, Interface and Navigation Design, Mobile Applications, Product design, Prototypes, Research Methods and Techniques, User Acceptance Testing, User Reported Feedback

The creation of an online marketplace for single-origin coffee leads to some realizations about the connections between design thinking and innovation.

Article by Tyler Tate
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Use Your UX Skills on the Inside

  • Business Value and ROI, Design, Direct Observation Research, Employee Experience, Internal Company Dynamics, Personal and Professional Development, Project Management, Research Methods and Techniques, Research Tools and Software, Strategy, Team Dynamics, Working With Stakeholders

Want to make change within your organization? Use your design skills internally to create a better workplace.

Article by Becky Reed
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Kicking Off the 2014 Design for Experience Awards

  • Accessibility, Agile and Iterative Process, Analytics and Tracking, Augmented Reality, Automotive, Business Value and ROI, Cloud Computing, Consumer products, Content and Copy, Content Strategy, Contextual User Studies, Customer Experience, Data visualization, Decision Architecture, Design, Design for Experience Awards, Design Theory, Design Tools and Software, Development, Direct Observation Research, E-commerce, Emotion, Empathy, Employee Experience, Enterprise Products, Ethnography, Eye tracking, Flow and Immersion, Gestures, Global Products and Localization, Government and Public Services, Healthcare, Human factors, Information Design and Architecture, Input devices, Interaction Design, Interface and Navigation Design, Internal Company Dynamics, Location-Based Services, Marketing and Brand, Mobile Applications, Mobile Technology, New and Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Personal and Professional Development, Personas, Persuasive Design, Product design, Product Releases and Redesigns, Project Management, Prototypes, Psychology and Human Behavior, Requirements and Specifications, Research Methods and Techniques, Research Tools and Software, Short News, Simplicity, Sketching, Social Media Marketing, Social Networking, Software, Software as a Service, Strategy, Tablet, Team Dynamics, Technology, Touch, Ubiquitous Computing, Usability, User Acceptance Testing, User Adoption, User Reported Feedback, UX Magazine, Video, Visual Design, Voice & Natural Language, Wireframes, Working With Stakeholders

The 2014 international Design for Experience awards program, presented by UX Magazine, is now accepting applications and recommendations.

Article by UX Magazine Staff
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Five UX Insights about Uber and the Ridesharing Economy

  • Analytics and Tracking, Automotive, Consumer products, Customer Experience, Design, Direct Observation Research, Information Design and Architecture, Interaction Design, Interface and Navigation Design, Location-Based Services, Mobile Applications, Mobile Technology, New and Emerging Technologies, Product design, Technology, Usability

Some key experience design insights into the sharing economy gleaned from a ride-along study of Uber users in San Francisco.

Article by Jennifer McCormick
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What is Empathy?

  • Consumer products, Design, Design Tools and Software, Digital Publishing and eBooks, Direct Observation Research, Emotion, Empathy, Human factors, Personal and Professional Development, Product design, Product Releases and Redesigns, Project Management, Psychology and Human Behavior, Research Methods and Techniques, Research Tools and Software, Team Dynamics, Technology

A thoughtful examination of empathy in life and in the context of design reveals that empathy is not merely about receiving, but also about giving.

Article by Seung Chan Lim
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