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…
The Pretty Speedy Redesign
The design team at Yahoo! Mail just launched a beta version of their redesign for 273 million worldwide users—more users than Gmail and Hotmail combined. Start-to-launch, they completed the redesign…
Sharpening your competitive edge with UX Research
It’s part of our daily work. We can’t imagine creating a product or an application without doing it: understanding the user. Most of the clients we work with at EffectiveUI…
How to ruin good UX in 20 simple steps
Every day we access a number of new or familiar sites and encounter a number of different experiences. Sometimes, you may have pleasant and average ones but if you are…
A new golden age for UI Design
Over the past four years, the Walt Disney Company has been engaged in a secretive effort to redesign the Disney World experience. It’ll go like this: You buy your ticket…
Top UX predictions for 2014
If 2013 marked a year of frenzied growth in the land of experience design, 2014 could be a year of downright explosive expansion. There's no arguing that connectivity will increase…
Building prototypes to support Participatory Design
As UX professionals, we often lead design exercises with our stakeholders, including immediate team members and external clients. In these brainstorming sessions, participants identify opportunities to improve the design, thereby…
Achieving alignment: Collaboration vs Wireframes?
In this edition of Ask UXmatters, our experts discuss whether wireframes can sometimes be a crutch that product teams rely on too much when trying to achieve alignment rather than…
The future of Information Dashboards
Last year was an awesome one for the data visualization industry. With more and more businesses realizing the value of data visualization for deriving critical business insights, the year ahead…