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Avoiding Featuritis in the Connected Car Gold Rush

For connected cars to truly connect with users OEM's need to figure out what's really important to drivers and make their information systems simple to use.
Article - Doug Hopkins - August 19, 2014 - 2 Comments

Want the Best User Experience? Make it Harder to Add Features

Adding features is easy when you design with scalability in mind. But is that really a good thing?
Article - Jonathan Courtney - August 18, 2014 - 17 Comments

Making a Case for Animations and Interactivity

Animated user interface elements can increase your product's usability, define its personality, and make it more fun to use, but they come at a significant cost.
Article - - August 14, 2014 - 3 Comments

What Can Experience Designers Learn from Kids?

Five actionable insights from Debra Levin Gelman and the winners of our Design for Kids giveaway.
Article - UX Magazine Staff - August 13, 2014 - 2 Comments

What Will It Take to Make Your Grandma’s Wearable?

Wearable technology can't reach its full potential until it provides valued services without being obtrusive and causing the users extraneous learning pains.
Article - Pallavi Sharma - August 7, 2014 - 1 Comments

Wear Are We?

In the wake of a new implementation of brain-computer interface headgear, we asked three UX Magazine contributors about the trajectory of wearable technology.
Article - UX Magazine Staff - August 6, 2014 - 3 Comments

I Love You, Spotify … Now Change

By running Spotify through a usability test, one avid user was able to find some relatively easy fixes that could make for a more intuitive and rewarding experience.
Article - Lin Wang - July 30, 2014 - 26 Comments

Building a Rapport with Kids for User Testing

By mitigating the feeling in users of being watched and judged, you can get better data from testing sessions—especially when working with kids.
Article - Nick Shim - July 28, 2014 - 1 Comments

Creating Outstanding Experiences for Digital Natives

A survey of Digital Natives reveals a group of impatient users with fragmented attention spans who demand fast and intuitive products and services.
Article - Saskia Schippers, Meike Mak - July 24, 2014 - 2 Comments

Persona Power

Looking at personas, goals, and scenarios relative to the characters, plot, and objectives of a novel or movie can help designers avoid self-referential thinking.
Article - Shlomo Goltz - July 23, 2014 - 5 Comments

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