How to crack the code to an intuitive Landing Page
A Landing Page can make or break your website – it’s the first thing your visitors engage with when they visit your site. It can determine if they stay around…
5 tips for letting collaboration fuel innovation
Innovation is hard, but less mysterious than you've been led to believe. We wrote a book peeling back the veil of design-led innovation, called Naked Innovation: Uncovering a Shared Approach…
Internet of Things and Work of Hands
My father has always worked with his hands. I was born in the city where he worked as a roofer, but eventually, my dad started his own company and moved…
Desktop design must go finger-friendly
Touch has landed on the desktop. A whole new category of touch devices is flooding the consumer market in coordination with the release of Windows 8: touchscreen laptops and tablet/keyboard…
How diagrams solve problems
Three common problems that trip up your creative process, and how diagrams will help you solve them If you clicked on an article with a title like this, you probably…
Design considerations for little fingers
We’re all familiar with the concept of “natural selection,” it is the evolutionary process in which biological traits become more or less common through genetics as a result of interactions…
Mobile interfaces that adapt to your skills
I do agree with the extensive research on adaptive user experience and completely support the idea of creating a learning process progression where users stay inside the flow zone as…
When to prototype, when to wireframe
From my experience I have come to the realization that interactive prototyping is not always the correct deliverable for a design project. Consider an enterprise application that needs a critical…
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…