Rob Cowie

An approach to form-field validation

Error pages for form-field validation are dreadful. You’ve just filled out 20 form fields, yet you get the same bloated…

12 years ago

Design Patterns: When breaking the rules is OK

We’d like to believe that we use established design patterns for common elements on the Web. We know what buttons…

12 years ago

Designing for device orientation

The accelerometer embedded in our smart devices is typically used to align the screen depending on the orientation of the…

12 years ago

The state of E-Commerce Checkout Design

Here’s a walkthrough of just a handful of the interesting stats we’ve found when benchmarking the top 100 grossing e-commerce…

12 years ago

What is UX Design?

Websites and Web applications have become progressively more complex as our industry’s technologies and methodologies advance. What used to be…

12 years ago

Design for a thriving UX ecosystem

As social media technologies and computer-supported, collaborative activities become more ubiquitous in people’s work and everyday lives, UX professionals need…

12 years ago

UX designers should make games

This May I went to the annual Games for Health conference in Boston. It was my second time going in…

12 years ago

Formula for quantitative UX decision making

Imagine a formula that would allow you to take data from a very small pool of users (often as few…

12 years ago

Overhauling a UI without upsetting users

Companies with successful software products often know that their user interfaces could be improved but hesitate to take action because…

12 years ago

Good design starts with empathy

When I was growing up, two of my favourite TV characters were a half-human, half-Betazoid empath, and a temporally displaced…

12 years ago