The 7 Rules of Caring for Junior UX Designers
Effectively mentoring young designers is a rewarding and crucial step in mastering your own skills. From start-ups to big business to agencies, everyone has had their own unique pleasures and…
The challenge for writers of web content
The challenge for writers of web content is that we think that people want to read our content. They don’t. The Web is not a murder mystery. People don’t want…
Video: Luke Wroblewski seminar on designing for mobile and across devices
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
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…
If you love the customer your organization will hate you
Focusing on the needs of customers is a thankless job in most organizations. In fact, the customer champion is seen as annoying, irritating and a trouble maker. It is a…
The organization customer disconnect
The irony of this period of Big Data is that many organizations are becoming even more disconnected from their customers. Technology creates both insights and blindness when it comes to…
Functional Animation In UX Design
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…
Transcript: Ask the UXperts: The Future of UX Work – with Dan Willis
Yesterday I had the pleasure of hosting Dan Willis of uxcrank.com in our Ask the UXperts chatroom. The subject of the session was a little more nebulous than usual. We…
Take Insights in Stride: Using iterative experiments in product development
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…
Experience Design and the Apple Watch
Apple Watch, maybe you’ve heard of it? No official sales numbers have been released yet, but according to Forbes, pre-orders were estimated to have hit 2.3 million units a week…