Icon Design in UX: Top 5 Considerations
An icon is a graphic symbol representing and object, action or idea. They are an integral part of our visual language providing clear...
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Designing for ‘women’? You’re doing it wrong
Designing for women is a topic that many people have addressed and was recently brought to my mind when shopping for various sporting goods. I...
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Bias in UX Research
Bias is an inclination. Most Biases - like preferring the smell of perfume instead of garbage, or assuming someone who's shivering is cold - are...
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Your mobile device: at work and at play
Is there a distinction between “work†technology and personal technology? The distinction is increasingly blurred as technological...
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UX Implications of “Her” on the ‘not-so-distant-present’
A little while ago I saw the movie Her, a sci-fi, dramatic comedy about a lonely writer named Theodore who develops an unlikely relationship with...
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Innovations for Niche User Needs
Tech is cool. And engineers just keep inventing cool tech, often without really considering what their inventions are really going to be used for...
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From Wireframe to Visual Design – Establishing Initial Concepts
The creation of visual concepts is a process that many visual designers may be familiar with. My process may differ a bit from others, or may be...
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Simple Isn’t Always Better
A common requirement that I see when reviewing user requirements documents is that the system should be simple. First, stating that the system...
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Usability Testing is NOT Public Opinion Research
This week it was brought to my attention that the Canadian Government was reviewing the standing offers that pertained to Public Opinion...
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The Importance of User Expectations in Experience Design
In personality psychology, we talk about traits and states. Traits are said to be stable characteristics across situations, like being...
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Everything I know about UX I learned from The Terminator
Yup, that's right those murderous robots of cinematic lore. The terminator movies teach us some valuable lessons about technology that we'd be...
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Ready to Wear? Evaluating the user experience with Jawbone UP24
This year was proclaimed to be the year of wearable technology so I decided to give one of the more successful products a try to evaluate the...
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The Art and Science of Information Architecture
In the context of a discussion around information architecture, (IA), definitions are fairly plentiful and even synonymous terms exist, like...
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Innovation Techniques in Disguise: Hooked book review
As we know, successful product innovation is something that all product managers strive for. There are plenty of resources out there that provide...
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Design Inspiration In Everyday Objects
Design inspiration is often sought in the latest and greatest design examples floating around the web and in the slick pages of design magazines...
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