10 tips for better mobile web usability
Mobile web browsing is expected to turn into the next major Internet platform. It is now easy to browse the net from nearly anywhere utilizing mobile devices that fit in…
Information Architecture: Enhancing the User Experience
Defined as ‘the structural design of shared information environments’, information architecture focuses on bringing the principles of architectural design to the online world. Just like the blueprints of a dream…
An approach to form-field validation
Error pages for form-field validation are dreadful. You’ve just filled out 20 form fields, yet you get the same bloated page thrown back in your face because a single field…
What is UX Design?
Websites and Web applications have become progressively more complex as our industry’s technologies and methodologies advance. What used to be a one-way static medium has evolved into a very rich…
Design for a thriving UX ecosystem
As social media technologies and computer-supported, collaborative activities become more ubiquitous in people’s work and everyday lives, UX professionals need to expand their skills and focus to take on broader…
UX designers should make games
This May I went to the annual Games for Health conference in Boston. It was my second time going in as many years, and once again I left feeling invigorated…
Formula for quantitative UX decision making
Imagine a formula that would allow you to take data from a very small pool of users (often as few as 8; possibly as few as 3) and figure out…
Good design starts with empathy
When I was growing up, two of my favourite TV characters were a half-human, half-Betazoid empath, and a temporally displaced scientist who hopped through time, living in other people’s lives.…
Content strategy and UX
Content strategy has been around for a long time. Large corporations such as Disney, Wells Fargo, and Mayo Clinic have had functional content strategy teams for years. The mega-agency Razorfish…
Content as conversation
Every use of your website is a conversation started by a site visitor. Think about it: why do people come to your site or app? Site visitors and app users…