UI walkthroughs

13 years ago

Clear, Rise and Solar are three examples of a trend of “gesture driven” apps with a flat UI. These are…

Fun in interaction design

13 years ago

People use the tools we design – sometimes every day. Our job as designers is not only to get their…

Showing your users that you care

13 years ago

Voice and tone. Tone and voice. Though the words “voice” and “tone” are often used interchangeably, they’re not synonyms. Our…

Designing the Whole

13 years ago

When you first launch a product, pretty much every feature you add is (or at least should be) key to…

Applying Lean UX

13 years ago

We recently wrapped up a project for a startup in the digital photography space, and aside from being great design…

UX in a minimum viable product

13 years ago

I gave a talk at Refresh Chicago last week, and afterwards a fellow came up to me with a question.…

Understanding typographic hierarchy

13 years ago

One of the most important techniques for effectively communicating (or “honoring”) content is the use of typographic hierarchy. Typographic hierarchy…

The 26 UX Axioms

13 years ago

1. It's all about people, it's not about the object UX design starts and ends with people. It's not everything,…

Functional beauty and user experience

13 years ago

Beauty is one of the oldest and most powerful concepts in human history—inspiring artists and lighting up cultural movements, philosophical…

Great products focus on a motif

13 years ago

What does it take to craft a great product? For those of us who design and build apps, websites and…