Video: Luke Wroblewski seminar on designing for mobile and across devices
PART 1 of 2: In this 1 hour 20 min seminar, Luke walks through the growth of connected screens and how to design software that works well across a wide…
If you love the customer your organization will hate you
Focusing on the needs of customers is a thankless job in most organizations. In fact, the customer champion is seen as annoying, irritating and a trouble maker. It is a…
The organization customer disconnect
The irony of this period of Big Data is that many organizations are becoming even more disconnected from their customers. Technology creates both insights and blindness when it comes to…
Functional Animation In UX Design
A good UX designer can easily explain the logic behind each decision in a design concept. This includes the information architecture, the hierarchy of page content, the flow and the…
Transcript: Ask the UXperts: The Future of UX Work – with Dan Willis
Yesterday I had the pleasure of hosting Dan Willis of uxcrank.com in our Ask the UXperts chatroom. The subject of the session was a little more nebulous than usual. We…
Take Insights in Stride: Using iterative experiments in product development
Traditionally, entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs come up with wild, life-changing product ideas and then write a comprehensive, step-by-step business plan illustrating how that product should be developed. Hope and expectations for…
Experience Design and the Apple Watch
Apple Watch, maybe you’ve heard of it? No official sales numbers have been released yet, but according to Forbes, pre-orders were estimated to have hit 2.3 million units a week…
Communication: The Cure for Common UX Design Challenges
As a UX designer, what do you do when, midway through the process, the product owner or other business stakeholder requests that you incorporate an idea that will result in…
The Top 7 Questions About Measuring The User Experience
How do you create a better user experience? The answer starts with asking the right questions. While there are many questions you should ask to measure the user experience, there…
The Expert Review Is More Than A Second-Rate Usability Test
Usability testing is an essential method to measure the user experience. I write a lot about the value of having actual users attempt tasks in an interface...for good reason. Observing…