The 5 pillars of a great UX project
Building the perfect website or app is simple. You just need the perfect idea, the smartest engineers, and the best designers. Let’s not even talk about the go-to-market aspect where…
An interview with Don Norman
At the LAUX Meetup Group, Media Contour’s Luke Swenson was able to track down Don Norman, author of The Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition and get his…
10 essential principles for UX leadership
As User Experience (UX) teams are becoming more and more common within organizations, the UX profession is becoming more and more in need of strong and effective leadership at the…
Transitional Interfaces
Designers love to sweat the details. Much time is spent pixel-fucking buttons, form styles, setting type, & getting those icons as sharp as a tack. A+, great job, don't stop…
Make your products guilt-free
Successful products make their users feel like winners. In the words of Kathy Sierra, good products help users become “baddass”. Every choice Medium makes is about getting users to feel…
Walt Disney: The World’s First UX Designer
I'm a huge fan of the Walt Disney park experience, and my family has traveled to Walt Disney World and Disneyland multiple times. I return from every visit with at…
A brief rant on the future of Interaction Design
So, here's a Vision Of The Future that's popular right now. httpvh://youtu.be/a6cNdhOKwi0 As it happens, designing Future Interfaces For The Future used to be my line of work. I had…
The complexity-simplicity trade off
Some years ago I listened as a CIO for a large organization boasted about his new sales management system. The new system required sales reps to go through 14 steps…
5 design techniques to incite user emotion
For years, designers have focused on traditional design factors such as meeting web standards, organizing navigation, choosing layouts and fonts. However, the design world has evolved and inciting user emotion…
Motion Perfection
For years, we’ve been pushing pixels — crawling towards digital perfection. At this point, it’s second nature. Pixel perfection is no longer a surprise, it’s an expectation. No one is impressed with…