by Jared Spool | Jun 24, 2014 | Resources
Stephen Anderson thinks about micro-moments in a design a lot. He even goes as far as role playing what the interaction would be like with another designer (as you’ll see in today’s article). It’s a funny and eye opening experience. This is just one part of what Stephen is covering in his full-day UI19 workshop, Design Skills for Complex Understanding and Problem Solving on October 27. See how you can present data in compelling, contextually relevant formats in his workshop. Here’s an excerpt from the article: Good interaction design is about attending to every moment that passes between a person and the device (or system, or service) with which he or she is interacting. These moments can be explicit, as with gestures, taps, a button-click, or the completion of a form field. Or, these moments may be more elusive, such as a pause while you try and understand what is being asked of you or how to answer. It’s these internal conversations that users have at any given moment that often get overlooked. Read the article: UX Design, Role-playing & Micromoments. What micro-moments have your experiences that added to — or diminished — your experience with a design? Leave us a note...
by Lauren Cramer | May 7, 2014 | Interaction Design Blog, Resources
Yup, that’s right, on June 26th UX Thursday will return to Detroit with a bevy of UX luminaries. And you can join them all for just $99 bucks! (Your cell phone bill is higher than that, right?) Keynotes will include Jared Spool and Dana Chisnell from UsabilityWorks and will be held at the city’s iconic Gem Theater. As always, there will be 6 other top local speakers there to share case studies of real-world UX projects, so start getting excited NOW! Stay tuned for more information on the amazing speakers and presentations we’ve got in store for you. You can also check out this video of last year’s show highlights. We hope to see you there but these events always sell out quickly, so don’t wait to sign...
by Lauren Cramer | Apr 22, 2014 | Resources
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by Jared Spool | Feb 18, 2014 | Resources
Get the UXIM 2013 OnDemand Recordings on us! We’re celebrating the fantastic program at this year’s UX Immersion Mobile Conference by giving everyone lifetime access to the 2013 sold out conference. Hear the same great content as the attendees from these top UX experts who shared their best practices for improving mobile UX skills. Luke Wroblewski – Create designs without compromising optimization Chris Risdon – Tell a visual story of what pains and delights your customers Kelly Goto – Design with your customers’ behavior in mind Cyd Harrell – Make better personas with tools to interpret user data faster Jason Grigsby – Look into the future of designing for TV Karen McGrane – Chunk your content to adapt to different contexts Dana Chisnell – Consider the flow instead of the UI of your design Jared Spool – Ensure delightful content regardless of the device It’s easy to get your free lifetime access Just submit your email by Friday, February 21, 11:59 PM PT and you’ll get access to last year’s UX Immersion talks. No tricks, no hidden payments. Now hurry up and get your recordings from the sold out 2013 UX Immersion Mobile Conference and be sure to spread the word. The clock is...
by Jared Spool | Feb 11, 2014 | Resources
Applications built on public data (think flight and train schedules) bring great benefits to their users. But the benefits they bring are highly dependent on how well the applications are designed. Designs will get better if the designers really watch users with the applications and use their feedback for updates. Today’s article by Cyd Harrell is an excerpt from chapter 12 in the book Beyond Transparency. She discusses the relationship between data, design and the end user. Cyd’s workshop, Conducting Usability Research for Mobile Apps, dives into the usability research that captures these relationships in addition to other valuable information. Here’s an excerpt from the article: The past decade has brought enormous and growing benefits to ordinary citizens through applications built on public data. Any release of data offers advantages to experts, such as developers and journalists, but there is a crucial common factor in the most successful open data applications for non-experts: excellent design. In fact, open data and citizen-centered design are natural partners, especially as the government 2.0 movement turns to improving service delivery and government interaction in tandem with transparency. It’s nearly impossible to design innovative citizen experiences without data, but that data will not reach its full potential without careful choices about how to aggregate, present, and enable interaction with it. Read the article The Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship: Data and Design in Innovative Citizen Experiences. What choices has your team made to present innovative experiences with both public and private data? Tell us about it...
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