Archive for the 'User Experience' Category
Designing for small surfaces
I must admit that designing for small surfaces has one very big benefit: constraints.
Designing for a normal screen gives you way more freedom, but it is too easy not to stick to that one thing that really is important.
Small screens on the other hand force you to stick to the core, those basics which are [...]
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Tags: feature creep, Interaction Design, LG watch, mobile, User Experience, User Interface
Sometimes there is no way out, saturday, IKEA Hell.
After nearly kicking 2 lovely jovely couples that seem to have a romantic moment on a saturday afternoon in IKEA (for God’s sake, how is that possible?) and being distracted by stuff I really don’t want but my wife yes, we arrived at THE QUEUES.
THE QUEUES
And if [...]
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Tags: User Experience, user experience design, User Interface, ux
SaaS and the Cloud are great. You have all your data available easily and from wherever.
If you are doing a good job and have great API’s to extract from and enter data into your application you open the true gates of heaven.
Being a fan of Tim Berner Lee’s call for action: RAW DATA NOW! it [...]
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Tags: SaaS, SaaS (Software as a Service), SaaS user experience, User Experience, ux
How do you flush?
On a recent visit to Tokyo I was amazed at how fluid the user experience of everything from trains to restaurants is. It seems that whenever you have a question, they have already thought of the answer.
One thing that drove me up the wall though after spending 10 min in a toilet, [...]
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Tags: domotica, tokyo, User Experience, User Interface, user interface designer
The Joy of Mashups! What do you get if you join location based information with your camera? Right: augmented reality.
An image of an F16 pilot shooting down planes comes to mind.
A Dutch company created an app for Android that does precisely so.
> Check out the video
> Layar´s website
> Related: MIT´s Sixth Sense
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Tags: android apps, User Experience, User Interface, user interface design
How much fun, a desktop OS from Google. Not a surprise, but still a nice message to shake it all up a bit.
CNET calls it a nuclear bomb and I guess it is.
What does that al mean for the UX sector?
Make our life easier. Maybe one day we can stop developing .exe´s and apps for [...]
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Slaughter the Button!
Let’s be honest: buttons suck. Dropdowns suck, sliders suck, everything that makes you think sucks.
Example: 1:45 AM. You want to get money our of an ATM, you are not very sober and next to a bar and ran out of money. You enter your card, type in your PIN code, now the fun starts. Questions start [...]
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Tags: Interaction Design, Interaction Designer, microsoft surface, surface, User Experience, user experience design, ux
Ode to the Post-it
Post -it o Post-it
You make my world so bright and shiney
You keep all well organized
Make it possible to change on the fly and not loose track
Re-arrange without 20 Outlook emails
Add colour to my work life
Serve as office wallpaper and decoration
Let me draw and scratch and do card sorting
Let yourself being thrown away without having to [...]
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Tags: card sorting, post-it, User Experience, User Interface, ux, wireframes
Mozilla build a great plugin for Firefox using a command line/search box that can take pre-build commands as well as natural language commands.
See it as a mix of Google, Wolfram Alpha, the good old command line and one of those helmets that knows what you are thinking.
For example, you write an email with an address [...]
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Tags: command line, mozilla, SaaS, searcg, ubiquity, User Experience, user experience design
Lately I have been looking into the possibilities of merging the command line and the search box. Remember that nice black screen with the flashing white cursor?
The promise of the blinking cursor
Having loads of options in front of you, but no idea which ones? You could do whatever you want, but first you had to [...]
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Tags: Interaction Designer, SaaS user experience, User Experience, user experience design, User Interface
