A decade ago companies were mainly focused on data mining, search technology, and virtual collaboration. Today, executives are directing their energy toward artificial intelligence, machine learning, and the Internet of Things. In 2007, companies lacked…
Stage 1: Understand your customer completely. Stage 2: Use location to add precision and context. Stage 3: Create relevant communications at the right time on the right channel. Source: 3 Steps To Digitally Transform Customer…
A nice, quick overview of responsive and adaptive design; great for helping explain the concepts to product owners, project managers, etc. Learn what makes responsive web design work. Responsive vs Adaptive design, The Flow, Relative…
Design patterns often have a bad reputation. They are often considered to be quick, lazy, off-the-shelf solutions that are applied blindly without consideration of the context of a problem. Solutions such as the almighty off-canvas…
In a great article on the Adobe Creative Cloud blog author Nick Babich explains what cards mean to the UI designer, and reviews three popular card-based services. Web and mobile apps are moving away from pages towards completely…
Instead of headlines, you get messages that read like texts from a friend—if your friend were a news-obsessed but reliable source. Source: With Quartz’s App, You Don’t Read the News. You Chat With It |…
With 3D Touch, Apple may be set to kill the infamous hamburger menu. Here’s why. Source: Apple’s plan to kill the hamburger menu
Helpful mobile-friendly test tool care of our friends at Google: Mobile Friendly Test Tool
Dennis Kardys shows how to apply concepts from wayfinding, to help balance visual simplicity with the need to keep websites easy to navigate. Source: Wayfinding For The Mobile Web – Smashing Magazine
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.