Rob Cowie

The 26 UX Axioms

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

12 years ago

Functional beauty and user experience

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

12 years ago

Great products focus on a motif

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

12 years ago

What does it mean to be simple?

All designers say simplicity is important, but what does it really mean to make something simple? Most of the time…

12 years ago

Solutions are easy if you know the problem

“Good design is problem solving.” – Jeffrey Veen You could say that actually solving the problem is good design in…

12 years ago

Hidden champions of product design

Products are people too. Products influence people through emotions. We as designers define the experiential, social and other qualities of…

12 years ago

3 mistakes web designers make

I was reviewing an online shoe store the other day. The landing page had this beautiful graphic of all these…

12 years ago

Who owns your UX Philosophy?

I’ve been in three board meetings in the last month where it was painfully apparent that there wasn’t a person…

12 years ago

UX Power Up – Discoverability

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12 years ago

Simplicity is not overrated, just misunderstood

“Features win over simplicity, even when people realize that it is accompanied by more complexity,” is what Don Norman states…

12 years ago