A UX designer doesn’t live in isolation from the rest of the world. Every day, you encounter and use products and services designed by others. Prior to starting a new UX design project, it makes sense to gain a sense of its scope by looking at what others have done and critically analyzing the desig
As a UX designer, you want to make sure that your team is doing everything possible to boost your organization’s innovation and the return on investment (ROI) of your work. After all, the better the ROI on your work, the more resources you will have to create awesome user experiences, which – again
The Interaction Design Foundation (IxDF) is finally live on Product Hunt! We’re on a mission to make UX education both accessible and affordable, and we hope to spread this message further and wider via the Product Hunt platform. We live in a time where community-building initiatives can slip under
The user experience with augmented reality applications is at its best when it’s multimodal. As much as possible, users should be able to use gaze, gesture and voice in a seamless blend to create an interaction with the digital world that’s as natural as interaction with the physical world -but with
Writing your portfolio UX case studies is easier when you follow a simple structure: a beginning, a middle and an end part. As with practically everything else in the field of writing, knowing what to do where and what to save for later is vital. That’s why, here, we will get you off to a good start
Let’s examine some concepts that involve our users’ worlds. Both concepts inhabit the same scale; understanding them, you’ll be able to appreciate your users far better.AssemblingIKEA is a heavyweight multinational that needs little introduction. Founded in 1943 in Sweden, by early 2008 it had becom
UX case studies are all about the work you’ve done and how you progressed from an initial problem statement to the delivery of a finalized product. Describing a process instead of just a collection of visuals is the key difference between a UX portfolio case study and a Visual Design portfolio. You
Audrey Hepburn, the star of the silver screen, said, “The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.” The ultimate goal of games and gamification is to create happiness in the player. Let’s look at how all the elements of fun come together in a single game. Th
In a global market, there’s big money to be made by bringing in new audiences and users for your products. However, there’s more to winning over audiences than just translating text into another language and waiting for the shopping carts to fill up. Translation is a small part of the overall proces
The end of the year brings about a time of reflection, appreciation, and forward planning. You might review what you’ve achieved over the past 12 months… or think ahead to your goals for the upcoming year, for instance. Alternatively, your mind may be filled with excitement about the gifts you plan
We’re not here to tell you how to run your business but (and isn’t there always a but in a sentence like that?) we would like to ask many of the companies that we come across; “why is there no UX representative in the senior management team?”UX is not Customer ExperienceAuthor/Copyright holder: Bory
The growing popularity of UX as a profession does not necessarily mean that everything is rosy for UX teams in enterprise development groups. There is still a tendency to assume that “design” is the only part of the UX role that matters. This often leads to UX teams which cannot fulfil their duties
The spaces we occupy deeply influence our experiences, our feelings, and our behaviors. Our state of health, psychology, productivity, mood, and creativity spaces influence us on many levels and also influence our interactions with each other. The spaces in which we journey through Design Thinking a
Hierarchical data is essentially a specialized form of network data – in that while entities within the dataset do not have dependent relationships; they are all related to each other by the principle of containment. They, unlike standard data networks, do not use the principle of connection.A hiera
Not all data has dependencies or a linear structure. In fact some data is related by either or a combination of two properties: connection and containment. These data sets are considered to be networks.An easy example of a network is the London Underground Tube Network. Here the stations are either
Linear data sets come in three varieties – univariate, bivariate and trivariate. A univariate data set has a single dependent variable which varies compared to the independent attributes of that data. A bivariate set has two dependent variables and a trivariate set has three.Representing data sets o
A preattentive visual property is one which is processed in spatial memory without our conscious action. In essence it takes less than 500 milliseconds for the eye and the brain to process a preattentive property of any image. This is good news for information visualization designers and graphic des
Lean UX can be a tricky beast to get to grips with at first. For those used to working in more traditional UX environments it can be very challenging to move to an environment where the focus is on making decisions rather than producing deliverables.That means there’s a change in the way that the UX
You worked on an amazing UX project. You documented every detail and deliverable and when the time came, you began to write a UX case study about it. In the case study, you highlighted how you worked through a Design Thinking process to get to the end result; so, can you stop there and now move on t
Tomorrow is only a day away… as the little orphan Annie once sang. But tomorrow can also be forever, too. Knowing when to start your business and knowing when you’re procrastinating so that your business is forever a day away can really help get you started. The perfect time to start your own busine
