Space…The final frontier…Of design…And other stuff too…
Title: Akin’s Laws of Spacecraft Design Context: You may not be designing a spaceship, but it probably often feels like you are designing something just as complex. Synopsis: Imagine the hardest thing...
View ArticleMaking your software so simple a drunk person could use it should make for...
Title: Cognitive Overhead, Or Why Your Product Isn’t As Simple As You Think Context: Making software is hard. Using software better not be. Synopsis: 8 billion features later you don’t have a piece of...
View Article#ux iota: How much design is too much? This. This is too much design.
This isn’t a light switch. This is a voodoo curse against being able to switch your light on or off. via twitter.com The post #ux iota: How much design is too much? This. This is too much design....
View ArticleHighly complex feature richness for some, baseline functional simplicity for...
Title: The Next Big UI Idea: Gadgets That Adapt To Your Skill Context: Using UI adaptability to appeal to both power users and novices without alienating either. Synopsis: Every new feature adds...
View ArticleThe road to bad user experience is paved with new features.
Title: Experience Rot Context: Feature creep = User experience rot Synopsis: The high point – user experience wise – of any software is its first release. This will be the simplest, most economical,...
View ArticleTo UI or not to UI? That is the question. And the answer? It depends.
Title: The No UI debate is rubbish Context: Context is king. Synopsis: I forget where the user experience zeitgeist is at this week. Are we against all forms of UI controls now or is it back to the...
View ArticleEveryone—regardless of gender—is an idiot when it comes to doing the laundry.
Title: Washing Machine for Men Context: I’m sure we’ve all tried to do laundry in a washing machine we’ve never seen before, but how many of us have been successful? Synopsis: No one knows what “Eco...
View Article#ux iota: Rock beats scissors. Scissors beats paper. Paper beats remote control.
How many remote control buttons would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck was sick of all the buttons he never used getting in his way all the time? via twitter.com The post #ux iota: Rock beats scissors....
View ArticleWe can’t fix it! Yes we can’t!
Title: Bose Headphones and the Internet of Broken Things Context: All things must come to an end. But does the end really have to come so damn quickly? Synopsis: As technology rapidly replaces the...
View ArticleThat’s the most mind-numbingly boring UI I’ve ever used…it’s perfect.
Title: Well-designed interfaces look boring Context: Shiny new things are sometimes better dull. Synopsis: Ah, the future. It’s going to be great. Touchscreen, holographic, virtual reality user...
View ArticleFact: If your user stories suck, your software is going to suck.
Title: How to produce better designs for complex apps Context: User stories: the cause of — and solution to — all of your software’s problems. Synopsis: Ernest Hemingway famously said about writing...
View ArticleLittle known fact: Captain Obvious? Great UX Designer.
Title: The Obvious, the Easy, and the Possible Context: It’s not a question of minimizing complexity, it’s rather about optimizing obviousity [sic]. Synopsis: They never said it would be easy. In this...
View ArticleYou want your product to work well with other companies’ products? I find...
Title: The Edges Context: It’s all fun and games until your user experience runs into someone else’s user experience. Synopsis: You spend months crafting your product’s user experience. You consider...
View ArticleDon’t lets design the world. Lets instead participate in its betterment.
Title: Design as Participation Context: Who should we be designing for? Nothing like a dense academic treatise to answer an otherwise straightforward question. Synopsis: Designers design for users....
View Article“Easy to use” is good…sometimes too good.
Title: Make me think! The design of complexity Context: By hiding complexity from people are we unintentionally making them dumberer? Synopsis: Plato (putting words into the mouth of Socrates) famously...
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