UXPA Student Design Competition - Part 1 Darian O'Reilly / Tue, Jun 27, 2017 I recently attended the UXPA International 2017 conference in Toronto where I had the opportunity to give a talk about my most favorite subject, data visualization. With over a thousand attendees, the...
What's New for Indigo Studio in Ultimate 17.1 George Abraham / Thu, Jun 22, 2017 Whether you are designing for a user story or micro-interactions, prototypes are a great way to communicate how your idea will work, before you begin coding. The goal is to experiment using the cheapest...
Don’t Get Stuck (to the bottom of a beer mug) Darian O'Reilly / Mon, Mar 20, 2017 This past weekend I had a little post-St. Patrick’s Day fun hanging out with my husband at a local biergarten. We drank some delicious Belgian beer, shared a giant pretzel, and spent the afternoon people...
Get a Free Copy of Eric Reiss’ Usable Usability George Abraham / Mon, Feb 6, 2017 Usability has become a business imperative: The more difficult a product or service is to use, the less likely a customer will buy it (or will buy it a second time). Now you can learn the fundamentals...
How to speed the process of defining user requirements and attaining acceptance through prototyping and design DevToolsGuy / Mon, Nov 21, 2016 Recap of Infragistics Ken Rosen’s session presented at Microsoft Ignite In late September, Microsoft held its annual Ignite conference, one of the largest IT conferences in the industry, with more...
Empathy is the key: UI design and testing on The Storyboard podcast DevToolsGuy / Fri, Nov 18, 2016 In this episode of The Storyboard: Conversations about Usability and UX ( iTunes | RSS | Direct Download | Google Play | Stitcher | Soundcloud ), Elden Nelson sits down with Dave Broschinsky, UX Principal...
The Storyboard Podcast: Focusing on elegance and clarity in usability design DevToolsGuy / Fri, Nov 18, 2016 We’re proud to announce a new podcast — The Storyboard: Conversations about Usability and UX . We’ll be talking with experts and practitioners about prototyping, testing, and usability challenges and...
Tackling Fidelity when Prototyping George Abraham / Mon, Jun 20, 2016 We often mistake fidelity as an attribute of the prototype. Referring to prototypes as a low or high-fidelity version inadvertently biases us to consider or expect the level of detail present; in practice...
Reviewing Usability Study Results George Abraham / Mon, May 16, 2016 One main purpose for conducting a usability study is to find out how well your design meets users’ expectations, and get some targeted usage data to help evaluate this in practice. However, collecting...