Google Design Minutes // Glass: Make it simple
Isabelle Olson talks about the focus her team put into making Glass simple, and how simplicity guided all the decisions they made #GoogleDesignMinutes httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-lMnhiAzEw
Google Design Minutes // Maps: Putting the user front and centre
Google Maps lead designer Sian Townsend looks at the importance of understanding how a user approaches your product, while Jonah Jones talks about adapting the approach to make the map…
Google Design Minutes // Search: The beauty of speed
Google Search lead designer Jon Wiley discusses the importance of bringing out the beauty in things as simple as speed. #GoogleDesignMinutes httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO_iRBEgnLc
Stop wasting users’ time
Our users are precious about their time and we must stop wasting it. On each project ask two questions: “Am I saving myself time at the expense of the user?”…
The Great Debate: Usability vs Delight
It all started innocently enough. We were in our weekly meeting late last month, when I sensibly suggested that Matt and Luke might like to fight to the death. Anyone…
Yes, and – The Improv of UX
Long before I was a UX nerd at The Nerdery, I was a theater nerd. Acting was the only activity that stuck with me when I was a kid, and…
3 Approaches to Designing for Delight
THANK YOU! PLEASE TELL NONE OF YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT THE GREAT STUFF YOU BOUGHT, WE ARE TRYING TO KEEP MOOSEJAW A SECRET. That’s the big, black, all upper-case message dominating…
Why UX Designers need to think like Architects
During a recent conversation with my father-in-law, an architect with nearly 40 years of experience, I couldn’t help but notice the parallels between his work and mine. As he detailed…
User Experience is the new differentiator
The world of business is changing, as are the locations of the people who are driving that business. How companies reach new users and how they treat them once they…
Prototyping in Service Design
This thesis describes prototyping in service design through the theoretical lens of situated cognition. The research questions are what a service prototype is, what the benefits of service prototyping are,…