Article No. 1290 | August 14, 2014
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 No. 1289 | August 13, 2014
Five actionable insights from Debra Levin Gelman and the winners of our Design for Kids giveaway.
Article No. 1287 | August 7, 2014
Wearable technology can't reach its full potential until it provides valued services without being obtrusive and causing the users extraneous learning pains.
Article No. 1286 | August 6, 2014
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 No. 1282 | July 30, 2014
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 No. 1280 | July 28, 2014
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 No. 1278 | July 24, 2014
A survey of Digital Natives reveals a group of impatient users with fragmented attention spans who demand fast and intuitive products and services.
Article No. 1277 | July 23, 2014
Looking at personas, goals, and scenarios relative to the characters, plot, and objective of a novel or movie can help designers avoid self-referential thinking.
Article No. 1276 | July 14, 2014
Sexy design has it's place in enterprise software, so long as you know what sexy is to your users.
Article No. 1274 | July 14, 2014
As new technology allows increased connectivity between devices and consumer products, there are more opportunities to gain market value through disruptive innovation.
Article No. 1273 | July 14, 2014
In an excerpt from her new book Design for Kids, Debra Levin Gelman looks at how the relationship between children and technology has changed over the last three decades.
Article No. 1272 | July 14, 2014
A closer look at results in the Experience for Children category of the international Design for Experience awards, featuring the winner: Night Zookeeper.
Article No. 1270 | July 9, 2014
Home to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Diagon Alley, Universal Studios is also a source of guidance and inspiration for experience designers.
Article No. 1268 | July 7, 2014
Users and designers can work to develop their Design Awareness in order to avoid the manipulative patterns associated with Dark UX.
Article No. 1267 | July 3, 2014
Make sure your interface leads users along consistent and familiar beats.
Article No. 1266 | July 2, 2014
A divisive tool among practitioners, personas can bring the perspective of your end users into the design process and help build consensus among stakeholders.
Article No. 1263 | June 27, 2014
A closer look at the results in the Interaction Design Innovation category of the international Design for Experience awards.
Article No. 1260 | June 24, 2014
Taking data with the richness of what Minority Report showed us and giving it the kind of approachable interface seen in Her.
Article No. 1258 | June 23, 2014
Understanding the labor issues at the core of the agile manifesto can help experience designers find news ways of working to enlighten developers.
Article No. 1255 | June 17, 2014
An idea for an app that delivers fresh lobster and crab to the Bay Area is realized at ProtoHack, a code-free prototyping hackathon.
Article No. 1254 | June 16, 2014
Products like Google Chromecast are creating new pathways for user-friendly connections between televisions and Internet content.
Article No. 1253 | June 12, 2014
UX experts Aaron Gustafson, Steve Portigal, and Whitney Quesenbery discuss the evolution, sophistication, and occasional creepiness for voice-recognition technology.
Article No. 1249 | June 4, 2014
A closer look at the results in the Mobile Solution or Application category of the international Design for Experience awards, featuring the winner: we are experience.
Article No. 1248 | June 3, 2014
A closer look at the history of mobile design and technology reveals common misconceptions that are making it difficult to move forward with clarity.
