The Stroop Effect and its Implications in UX Design
What happens when your brain is trying to process conflicting streams of information? Let’s find out. Read this list of colors to yourself: Red Green Blue Purple Black Brown Yellow Red Blue Pink Orange...
View ArticleWireframing and Deadpool
You know wireframes. The white-gray-black series of doodles of your website, mobile app, rich app - that make the process proper, eliminate logical flaws and ultimately save project time. Cool. Except,...
View ArticleUXify 2016 Conference | Migrating from Desktop to Web and Mobile
UXify US is an annual half day conference about designing great digital experiences. This year’s fourth annual user experience conference, UXify, brings together the community of academics,...
View ArticleAccess at Arm’s Reach
I recently waited for a flight in Newark Liberty International Airport’s Terminal C. Expecting the typical travelling experience of delayed departures and time wasted waiting at the gate, I was...
View ArticleThe Transition Effect – Animations in our UI
Essential to the process of creating and developing engaging interfaces for our users are thoughtful animations. In conjunction with wireframe testing and validation, we also need to be considering the...
View ArticleKeming, or the importance of not being a click.
This is Important Let me start with some namedropping, to prove the importance of the subject. Apple just changed the kerning of the word “click“ on the El Capitan website (and tens of articles were...
View ArticlePublic Speaking 101
Technorati Tags: Public Speaking,Conference,UX,User Experience,Stage Performance,Skills,Tips,Talks,Speaker,Session Gearing up to deliver a talk that lasts Who hasn’t been to a conference at least once...
View ArticleKiller UI & Death Ray in Las Vegas: The Deadly Serious Series
Parallels Between Familiar Architectural Conventions and the Practice of User Experience. BIG difference in scale. Try comparing an interface to a urban landscape. A few weeks ago I was offering an...
View ArticleUXify 2016 Conference Follow-Up
Infragistics’ 4th annual user experience, UXify, took place this past Saturday, 9 April 2016 at our global headquarters in Cranbury, NJ. It was a fantastic event filled with presentations from thought...
View ArticleDesign, Usability and Testing the User Experience
Members of the Infragistics design community have been invited to speak at the 3rd annual Testing UY conference on April 26-27 in Montevideo, Uruguay. Martín Loskin, UX Architect, Claudia Badell,...
View ArticleA Dribbble Chapter at Infragistics
Technorati Tags: UX,User Experience,UX Design,Design,Customer Experience,Meetup,Dribbble,Community,Event Show and tell for designers based in Sofia In the world of design, dribbble is the go to...
View ArticleMute On, Mute Off?
Sometimes I’m amazed when very simple usability problems are overlooked in an otherwise good design. Google Maps is a great mapping app, with one major exception – turning off the audio directions. As...
View ArticlePublic Speaking 102
Technorati Tags: Public Speaking,Conference,UX,User Experience,Design,Customer Experience,Stage Performance,Skills,Tips,Talks,Speaker,Session Gearing up even better to deliver a talk that lasts even...
View ArticleXLR8 Conference 2016 Recap
The past Saturday, 14 May 2016, Infragistics held its first XLR8 conference in Sofia, Bulgaria and judging by its success there will be many more to follow. JavaScript, Angular and Mobile dev skills...
View ArticleReady for Launch?
Space exploration is humanity's ultimate design challenge. To start, some fundamental laws of physics must be overcome in order to escape Earth's gravitational pull. Then, a life sustaining...
View ArticleThe Usability of Self-Service Beer
I recently experienced a major failure in an interesting attempt at self-service automation – self-serve beer taps at a Milwaukee Brewers game. If self-serve beer would work anywhere, you’d think it...
View ArticleUX Scotland 2016 Conference Recap
On the 7th - 9th of June, I was lucky enough to have been invited to speak at UX Scotland in Endinburgh. UX Scotland is the annual hands-on, practical UX and design conference for the UX, Service...
View ArticleUXcamp Berlin 2016 Recap
From the people, for the people. Аnd for fun. It’s what UX Camp Berlin is about - the UBER and Airbnb of conferences. In other words, it’s one of the best events I had the privilege to attend this...
View ArticleHow to Build UX Culture in the Company
Why would you care about creating a “UX culture” in the workplace? And what does that even mean? If you are a fan of definitions, here’s one for “UX culture”: The awareness of the team members/company...
View ArticleWhat is Empathy and Why Designers Need to Understand It
Titanic & Monkey Business. Part 1 of Empathy Series. Empathy is said to be a core tool in user experience. You might even refer to it as “Innovation’s pixie dust.” That makes it seem pretty...
View ArticleUX Plagiarism | Stealing Someone’s Work
With the upcoming US presidential election, plagiarism has been in the news of late. Yet, when we discuss plagiarism, we typically focus on the individual(s) who committed the act. How horrible they...
View ArticleConduct a Pilot Test First
Before beginning a user research study or usability test, one of the most important things you can do is to run a pilot test. What’s a pilot test? It’s a rehearsal of the study with someone standing in...
View ArticleFrom Product Design to UX
My journey is not a common one, but maybe it should be. Despite being trained as a product designer I am now working in the field of User Experience (UX) Design. While I am not the first designer to...
View ArticleMcMansion Problems – Don’t Design for the Extras
There is a blog that I love called McMansion Hell – you know those crazy monster houses built in bulk starting in the 1980’s? They are usually found in great clusters and sometimes on very small...
View ArticleInfragistics Racing – 2016 Season Recap
The weather is turning decidedly more Fall-like here at Infragistics corporate headquarters, and that means it’s time to reflect on the 2016 Infragistics Racing season. Starting back in March (!), the...
View ArticleAIGA Conference Recap
I had the pleasure of attending the 2016 AIGA Conference in Las Vegas a few weeks ago. The theme of the conference this year was “The Shape of Design” and attendees were given the opportunity to hear...
View ArticleWhen Less UI Provides a Better UX
As a user experience guy visiting Disney World this summer, I couldn’t help but appreciate Disney’s mastery at creating excellent user experiences. Of course there were the amazing rides, fun...
View ArticleISTA 2016 Recap, Sofia Bulgaria
On 16-17 November, the annual ISTA conference was held in Sofia, Bulgaria. In addition to being south of Romania and north of Greece, famous in Eastern Europe for its Rakia, Bulgaria is also home to...
View ArticleInfragistics Nominated for Prestigious IxDA Award
As Infragistics’ user experience consulting group, the UX work that we do for our external clients doesn’t always get the recognition it deserves. While our efforts positively effect the working lives...
View ArticlePut User Research Knowledge Where It Belongs
Imagine conducting extensive user research. You reveal extremely interesting information and present it to your client and the project team. They seem intrigued and appreciate learning about the users...
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