Day: November 15, 2014 | UX Central

Doing UX in an Agile World: Case Study Findings

By Rob Cowie 15 November 2014Design, Testing, Theory, UX

Agile teams are more proficient in executing the development process, but the compressed timescale forces some to abandon user research and degrade the resulting user experience. Agile development processes are…

Framing Effective Messages To Motivate Your Users

By Rob Cowie 15 November 2014Design, UX

What you say in a user experience matters. How you say it matters equally. The way you frame communication, or how you say something, could be extremely effective at persuading…

How A Designer Can Find A Job They Will Truly Love

By Rob Cowie 15 November 2014Design, UX

There comes a time in nearly everyone’s career when changing jobs is the natural next step. As a designer, you might start looking for a new job when you feel…

Will Wearables Change UI as We Know It?

By Rob Cowie 15 November 2014Design, UX

A little less than a year ago, UX Magazine published my article about the ecosystem behind product/service. This article describes how granular and diverse the experience is, and how important…

Your content is a promise to your customers

By Rob Cowie 15 November 2014Design, UX

The content an organization publishes online is increasingly contributing to how customers regard that organization’s brand. When was the last time you ever met someone from Amazon? When was the…

Requiring Less Taps in Mobile UI

By Rob Cowie 15 November 2014Design, UX

As our mobile devices increase in size and complexity, an over reliance on tap gestures for key interactions may be preventing us from creating simple, frictionless interaction designs. What's Wrong…

6 simple rules for designing mobile websites

By Rob Cowie 15 November 2014Design, UX

It is projected by ComScore the by the end of 2014, around 1.75 billion people worldwide will use smartphones regularly. That means that those who’ll be the first to adapt…

Why “Content First” should be your new war cry

By Rob Cowie 15 November 2014Design, UX

We’re not all designing our content right. There. I said it. Maybe you, personally, are doing a great job, but most of us aren’t. We can, and should do better.…