Maximize ROI: Turn Beginners into Experts
Turning beginners into experts is a valuable and important transition for business to facilitate. The more versed a users is in your product the more use and value they will be able to get out of it. The more value…
Back to Basics: Gestalt and Proximity
I had an ah-ha! moment today, one for which my instinct was to immediately chastise myself, and say “duh Lauren”. But then I took a second thought and reminded myself that while like most users I tend to blame myself…
Form over Function
In my attempt to order lunch this afternoon I was rendered stupid. One of those moments, where a website literally made me feel like an idiot. Then after a brief smack of my palm on my forehead I decided to…
Infographic Best Practices
I had the opportunity to help out with an infographic design recently and it gave me to a great opportunity to explore this communication medium in general. There are some really great examples on Pinterest, and I highly recommend that as a tool for visually browsing…
8 Tips for Quick Research Notes
Whether you are the note-taker, or the researcher reviewing a recording, it is important to find a good short hand for taking notes. It must be quick, but also easily scannable and understandable by other. Below are 8 tips I put…
No New Mail – Updated!
I had a specific experience with Gmail lately that left me craving some character and delight. Now I consider character and delight to be two very different aspects of user experience design. Delight is the cherry on top of a good…
Digging into Design Details
Interface design is a complicated process. Designs are rarely created in an ah-ha moment so much as they are the result of a process that takes lots of time and thought. Designing interfaces involves lots of analysis, many conversations and…
Is the Save Disk Icon Dead?
I was recently posed with the question of whether the save disk icon should be removed from software as a majority of software users have never actually used a floppy disk. Not to mention that save these days usually takes…
UX Tidbits – July
This month I have been getting back into graphic and web design a bit more, and wanted to explore some of the basics. Here are some nice reference articles on the basics of visual and interaction design. Design Links 11…
UX Tidbits – May
I’ve been writing a lot and publishing a little lately as I’ve been working on fine tuning some ideas. In the mean time, I’ve also been reading a lot and decided to start sharing some of the tidbits that I…