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Category Archives: Interaction Design
UI16 Spotlight: Simplifying Complex Applications with Hagan Rivers
[We've built this year's User Interface 16 Conference around eight important challenges facing today's UX Professionals. This is the first in a series of posts where I discuss my thoughts on those challenges and how I came to pick the expert who will be your guide at UI16. Enjoy! – Jared] What happens over time [...] Continue reading
Posted in Information Architecture, Interaction Design, Usability, User Experience
Tagged Applications, design, Design Patterns, design skills, Events, Experience Design, Mega Menus, Navigation, Pattern Libraries, UI16, user experience, ux, UX Professionals, Visualizations, Web Applications
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Examples for Functionality, Gamification, and Feedback Loops
I noticed an article on bokardo, Joshua Porter’s blog, about Functionality, Gamification, and Feedback Loops. He has some insightful comments on the Wired magazine article Harnessing the Power of Feedback Loops.
I saw a great example of gamificat… Continue reading
Posted in Interaction Design, User Experience
Tagged all, designingwebinterfaces, gamification, user experience, ux
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The Future of Interaction Design Is Born From A Car For The Blind
If you want to see what’s beyond glass, multi-touch screens, you needn’t go much farther than this TED talk by Dennis Hong on a car his team has developed for a blind driver. Yes, you read that right. A blind person driving a car. Not an autonomous car that drives a blind person around, but [...] Continue reading
Posted in accessibility, Information Architecture, Interaction Design, Usability, User Experience
Tagged design, Prototyping, user experience, ux
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Day 2: Seattle Web App Masters Tour
Following the brilliance of Day 1 of the UIE Web App Masters Tour, we had a another awesome day of great presentations. Pam Rodriguez and Luke Wroblewski did a nice job of posting their notes. Thanks guys! Steve Portigal on Design Fieldwork: Uncovering Innovation from the Outside In – Pam’s notes, Luke’s notes. Kate Brigham [...] Continue reading
Posted in Information Architecture, Interaction Design, Usability, User Experience
Tagged Agile, ajax, Data Visualization, design, Design Patterns, Design Principles, Design Process, Design Teams, Experience Design, Experience Management, Field Studies, Marketing & Branding, Pattern Libraries, Prototyping, User Engagement, user experience, ux, Web App Masters Tour, Web Applications
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The Multi Select Solution
Harvest, the time tracking and invoicing tool we use, just added a new filter mechanism to their report generator. While I appreciate the additional functionality, I was most impressed with their multi-select combobox. It looks like a normal text field… Continue reading
Posted in Interaction Design, User Experience
Tagged ajax, all, controls, frontend, user experience, ux
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Day 1: Seattle Web App Masters Tour
Well, we’ve just wrapped up the first day of the UIE Web App Masters Tour stop in Seattle. What a day! Blogger Pam Rodriguez has done a tremendous job summarizing the first day’s sessions. You can read them here: My talk: Mobilism & UX: Inside the Eye of the Perfect Storm Bill Scott’s talk: Designing [...] Continue reading
Posted in Information Architecture, Interaction Design, Usability, User Experience
Tagged Data Visualization, design, Design Patterns, Experience Design, Experience Management, Experience Visions, Measurement, Pattern Libraries, User Engagement, user experience, ux, Web 2.0, Web App Masters Tour, Web Applications
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UIEtips: 3 Important Usability Challenges for Designing Web Apps
Web-based applications are different from content-based web sites because the users are involved in a transaction. In our work researching the usability of content-based sites, we focus on how users will find and react to the information. However, with web-based applications, there are many other considerations we need to account for. In this week’s UIEtips, [...] Continue reading
Josh Clark – Designing Tapworthy Mobile Apps
“Thinking mobile” goes beyond scaling down an existing app to fit a smaller screen or making decisions about what content to include. Because the app can be used anywhere by nature and the interface is manipulated with thumbs and fingers, there are much more than just aesthetics to consider. Josh discusses mobile design with Adam Churchill. Continue reading
Posted in Information Architecture, Interaction Design, Usability, User Experience
Tagged design, mobile, Podcasts, SpoolCast, user experience, ux, Web Applications
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Ethan Marcotte – The How and Why of Responsive Web Design
More types of devices are accessing your web content everyday. Have you figured out how to accommodate them? Ethan Marcotte is leading the charge in this area, with his work on Responsive Design, which can help your content scale and adapt to new devices. Continue reading
Stephen Anderson – The Quest for Emotional Engagement
Stephen Anderson, designer and creator of the Mental Notes card deck, believes your users must be emotionally engaged if you want them to exhibit a certain behavior. Stephen uses simple visual representations to help people make choices and understand complex information. In this podcast, Stephen and Jared Spool discuss creating designs that engage your users’ emotions. Continue reading