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…
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…
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…
UPA 2012 Session Sketchnotes
I did back to back conferences this month, attending the UPA the day after flying out of Ohio from Midwest UX. Still excited about the sketchnoting workshop I had attended there I decided to see if I could keep it going throughout…
Midwest UX 2012 Session Sketchnotes
I’m so pleased that I was able to attend Midwest UX this year in my hometown of Columbus Ohio, and I was thrilled that it was hosted at COSI. It was a great conference with a lot of local talent…
IA Summit 12: Dimensions of Complexity
The last regular talk I attended at the summit was Dimensions of Complexity by Nadine Schaeffer. It was a fantastic talk about the dimensions and attributes of complexity and how to focus complexity.
IA Summit 12: Filtered and Refined
After the Better Cross Channel Experiences talk the next 20 minute talk for that session was Filtered & Refined: Interfaces for Distilling Data by Erin Jo Richey. This talk was all about the way that information is organized and presented…
Error: Please contact me at (xxx) xxx-xxxx
I’m giving a talk on forms tonight and to get my head focused I was scanning over some last minute articles on the subject when I came across the best error message idea ever. It’s not for every error message,…