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What’s Different About User Experience Design for the Internet of Things?

By Rob Cowie 28 June 2015Design, UX

User experience design and human–computer interaction (HCI) emerged in a world of desktop computers. But our experience of computing has changed radically in the past 10–15 years. Many of our…

The Evolution Of Mobile App Design

By Rob Cowie 27 June 2015Design, UX

In July 2008 the Apple App Store went live. On launch day the marketplace featured 500 apps. Seven years and 75 billion downloads later there were more than 1.2 million…

4 Essential Elements of Successful UX Design

By Rob Cowie 24 June 2015Design, UX

When you consider the success stories of the internet age, you could be forgiven for believing that luck has been the deciding factor. Amazon, for example, is a retail company…

How to perfect UX with Design Affordances

By Rob Cowie 22 June 2015Design, UX

Affordances in design are important to usability and function. They’re one of the components of design that have to come together to provide an impeccable user experience. To understand exactly…

Designing For Explicit Choice

By Rob Cowie 16 June 2015Design, UX

If you’re a UX designer, you’ve probably designed a lot of forms and web (or app) pages in which the user needs to choose between options. And as a designer,…

Insight led by data not gut instinct

By Rob Cowie 15 June 2015Design, UX

Over the years I’ve developed a survey technique that looks absolutely crazy and unworkable. Every time I present it to people their immediate gut instinct reaction is: “This won’t work!…

Video: Luke Wroblewski seminar on designing for mobile and across devices

By Rob Cowie 1 June 2015Design, Theory, Video

PART 2 of 2: Luke answers audience questions and covers screen-less devices, responsive web designs vs. native applications, form conversions, touch gestures, navigation, cross-platform consistency and more. httpv://youtu.be/br_szl80J1M

Video: Luke Wroblewski seminar on designing for mobile and across devices

By Rob Cowie 31 May 2015Design, Theory, Video

PART 1 of 2: In this 1 hour 20 min seminar, Luke walks through the growth of connected screens and how to design software that works well across a wide…

Functional Animation In UX Design

By Rob Cowie 28 May 2015Design, UX

A good UX designer can easily explain the logic behind each decision in a design concept. This includes the information architecture, the hierarchy of page content, the flow and the…

Take Insights in Stride: Using iterative experiments in product development

By Rob Cowie 26 May 2015Design, Testing, UX

Traditionally, entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs come up with wild, life-changing product ideas and then write a comprehensive, step-by-step business plan illustrating how that product should be developed. Hope and expectations for…