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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.

When Smart Becomes Genius: context aware computing

By Seneca Brandi

It seems like every day a new Ã¢â‚¬Å“smartÃ¢â‚¬Â consumer product is released onto the market with the promise of revolutionary features and...

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Designing for Touch: Critical Mobile Misconceptions

By Monica Zaczynski

I came across Linda Matthew's article Six Mobile Myths in UXmag the other day and it got me thinking how true it is that when we start designing...

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Pleasure Projects: a Designer’s inspiration

By Jessica Murray

As an artist and designer you are naturally curious and not afraid to occasionally fail. Sometimes designers get into a problem solving system...

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The User Experience of Security

By Dominira Saul

Recently we saw the launch of the latest iPhone and accompanying mobile operating system. One of the new noteworthy features is the...

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Wasted Code Reduction

By Tedde van Gelderen

I recently read an article where Berners-Lee was quoted as stating that the world needed more coders as the shortage of coders is hurting progress...

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Creative Brief: A Cornerstone in the Design process

By Athena Herrmann

As Akendi works with a wide variety of industries, I've been lucky to work with a variety of client types: Developers, CEOs, Marketing &...

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Keeping the Designer Out of the Design

By Jessica Murray

It is all too easy for graphic designers to influence the outcome of a design. And given their knowledge and talent in this area, you may be...

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User-Centered Design Vs. User Designed: How to avoid building “The Homer”

By Patrick Noonan

Like most people today, I learned most of what I know from television. My first lesson in user research came in 1991 when I saw an episode of...

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How Much is Too Much?

By Dominira Saul

John Gillespie Magee was a WWII aviator who wrote what is arguably the second most famous wartime poem. The poem High Flight describes the joys...

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Intuitive: A word that isn’t that intuitive

By Patrick Noonan

I recently had a conversation with a client where the topic of drag-and-drop was brought up. They had been using drag-and-drop in one of their...

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7 Tips to Help Designers Stick to the Story

By Athena Herrmann

Everyone loves a good story. Stories are how we make connections with others and help us make abstract concepts more palpable. Because design...

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