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Creating a well-designed interaction does more than improve usability – it can create delight. Our collection of Interaction Design blogs takes you from interaction fundamentals to examples of good and bad designs and what you can learn from them.

A Field Guide to Great UX Prototyping

By Jonathan Pusic

01.09.2024

A sketch on the back of a napkin, a few lines on the whiteboard, a fully interactive digital mockup - prototypes are anything that makes your...

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How I Became a Children’s Story Author, Sort of

By Dan Iaboni

01.03.2024

Prologue As a User Experience (UX) Designer, I have always found it challenging to explain my profession to others. More recently, I faced...

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What to Measure Mathematically in UX?

By Scott Plewes

11.29.2023

With the growing popularity of machine learning and AI, it seems the number of mathematical techniques available to understand people's...

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Your Customers Are Not Your Users

By Scott Plewes

11.13.2023

When the character Guy finally tries Green Eggs and Ham (and likes it) from the book Sam-I-Am, he has transitioned from being a customer to...

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Is that a Prototype or a Prototype?

By Scott Plewes

11.07.2023

The same "technical" words can mean different things across disciplines, or even within disciplines, or just between different people. This...

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How Important is Visual Design to UX Compared to Other Aspects of UX?

By Scott Plewes

10.30.2023

And the wrong question to ask. Visual design is a necessity in UX. There is no universal answer to how important it is. For any product or...

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Is Your Product UX a Casualty of Design Drift?

By Scott Plewes

10.23.2023

You tested your design, communicated it to the engineering team, and got sign-off. Yet, the released product UX differed from the intended and...

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Is Romeo’s love for Juliet a 7 on the Likert scale?

By Scott Plewes

09.14.2023

There's a reason Romeo compared his love for Juliet to the light from the Sun instead of using a quantitative measurement. Math isn't the best...

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What is Your AI’s EQ?

By Scott Plewes

08.15.2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) can walk a strange line between people and technology. On the one hand, it is "just computing." On the other...

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Think Twice Before Reaching for that UX Template

By Scott Plewes

08.02.2023

UX templates can be super useful. They are time savers and can give people insights into what they are templating (a persona, journey...

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A Quantum of Solace: UX Design Happens at Different Scales

By Scott Plewes

07.28.2023

On the one end, it's often critical to get the label on a specific button "right" when designing a software application because it can...

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One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish: Categorization in UX Design

By Scott Plewes

07.24.2023

Categories matter in data analysis and information design. It is tempting to take whatever categories the system already provides (emails...

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Making Music with HAL

By Dan Iaboni

07.07.2023

During a recent meetup focused on the application of ChatGPT, a startup presented their new AI-assisted music generation tool. The purpose of...

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Users are Terrible Designers. Usually

By Scott Plewes

07.03.2023

In general, end users are terrible at UX design. For the same reason most of the world is bad at reading hieroglyphics. They are not trained in...

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Data Science Needs UX, Especially UX Research

By Scott Plewes

06.28.2023

Any model in math is better if it is stronger on one or more of these factors: reliability, extensibility, stability. UX research can get at what...

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