How to Run an Empathy & User Journey Mapping Workshop
Introduction ¶ This article will teach you two popular design workshop techniques: empathy mapping and user journey map… Source: How to Run an Empathy & User Journey Mapping Workshop — Medium
Amazon Updates Their Login Screen For The First Time In A Decade
It was time for a change. Source: Amazon Updates Their Login Screen For The First Time In A Decade
The best interface is no interface
It’s time for us to move beyond screen-based thinking. Because when we think in screens, we design based upon a model that is inherently unnatural, inhumane, and has diminishing returns. It requires a great deal…
Dark Patterns Revisited
I ran across another great post on dark patterns by Harry Brignull on A List Apart a few days ago. I first learned about dark patterns back in December 2010, and I was immediately intrigued by…
The IPad’s disruption of PC & DRAM chip sales, and what it means for UX practice
The movement towards mobile and tablet technology is moving along much more quickly than I, (and most PC and DRAM manufacturers) imagined. I saw this on the Apple Insider blog and it blew my mind:
In the last calendar quarter, Apple shipped 11.1 million iPads, which not only expanded the computing market with less need for DRAM, but also held back sales of conventional PCs. Apple actually sold more iPads than rival Dell sold in all its PCs together (10.6 million).
That statistic is staggering, and further proof that those of us in the UX universe need to be prepared for this shift in how users are getting their information. Obviously Luke Wroblewski, Brad Frost and others have been beating the “mobile first / future friendly” mantra for awhile now, but every day it’s becoming clearer just how prescient they were about this sea change.
Future Friendly
Luke W, Brad Frost and several other developers have tackled the problem of how to maintain sanity and clarity while trying to design for compatibility on the dizzying array of connected devices. They’ve written a…
Good advice from Tog
If you are demanding registration before checkout, you need to cease this practice immediately. It is costing you a fortune. — Bruce “Tog” Tognazzini Links: How to Achieve Painless Registration from the Ask Tog blog.
Create interactive protypes on your tablet with Adobe Pronto
From UXRave: Adobe Proto, a new Adobe Touch App, lets you create interactive wireframes and prototypes of websites and mobile apps on your tablet. Interesting….has anyone used it yet and if so would you be…
Bigger is not always better
Dustin Curtis makes an interesting observation about the screen sizes of the iPhone and some of its competitors. Newer Android and Windows7 models have larger screens which look more inviting, and some would assume that…