How Agile and UX can work together
The UX process and the Scrum sprint format don’t naturally sync together. Like a relationship, you have to work at it for both parties to be happy.
Continue reading →The UX process and the Scrum sprint format don’t naturally sync together. Like a relationship, you have to work at it for both parties to be happy.
Continue reading →Jobs such as “UI/UX Designer” are often advertised in France and some other countries – but you should think twice before applying even if you have a background in visual design. They may indicate that the company misunderstands UX or doesn’t really value it enough.
Continue reading →Do you remember the card game Top Trumps, where you beat your opponent’s hand with a card that outranks it in some capacity? Well, in UX you can play a version of this where instead of carefully crafting the visual weight and placement of each element in your design to take into account the relative […]
Continue reading →User experience (UX) is a convergence of many disciplines. It goes beyond making something just easy to use or visually pleasing, but looks after all the aspects of a person’s interaction with a product or service – and most importantly, how they feel about using it. All these forces need to work together to present […]
Continue reading →Using redundancy in design is vital when conveying critical information. In this icon project I added features that would help the meaning of the symbol survive the shift to black and white, bad monitors, or bad eyesight.
Continue reading →It’s quite satisfying when a website manages to reflect its subject matter fully through its visual design. Here are 3 sites that achieve this special kind of harmony.
Continue reading →User interface design and usability is usually a good thing, but what if UI design is used to push people into doing the opposite of what they wanted?
Continue reading →I recently carried out some remote user testing using my firm’s video conferencing facilities. Usually when I do remote testing, I phone the test participant and proxy on to their screen to see what they are doing. That’s easy to do, but of course you can’t see their facial expressions. This time we’d thought we’d […]
Continue reading →There is a misunderstanding that accessibility only benefits blind people or disabled people in general, but in reality, most of the people who end up benefiting are not officially disabled.
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