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Design teams maintain a backlog of technical work that they want to complete and when this gets overly long you’ll find someone adds ‘simple to use’ to the list. But ‘simple’ isn’t a feature. You can’t build ‘simple’ into a product. You have to weed complexity out. To achieve this, you must identify the key tasks — the product’s red routes — and maintain a laser focus on these during development. (more…)
This guide is designed as a "get started" or introductory read for the starting to intermediate designer who wants to learn or get more knowledge about cross-DPI and cross-platform design from the very beginning. As little math as possible and no un-parsable graph, just straight forward explanations ordered in short sections for you to understand and apply directly to your design process. (more…)
Create and publish beautiful visualizations of your data. Interactive, responsive and engaging. (more…)
Infographics can make a big impact on anything from content and product marketing, to PR, to social media. Whatever your goals, creating infographics is a great way to tell an effective story and get noticed. Visually is here to help with any sort of infographic design project. We’ve got a talented stable of designers who is ready to jump in and make sure your visual content is the best. (more…)
Infographics Create long-form infographics that draw more page views to your blog or website, and watch traffic skyrocket. Reports Designed to fit snugly in A4 or letter-sized sheets of paper. Use infographics to bring dry reports to life. (more…)
User journey mapping is one of the tools that UX pros use to find and address the weakest points in customer experience with the product. It helps visually articulate the key touchpoints where users interact with your product and analyze the user experience at each stage. The map itself looks different for each project, that’s why some professionals prefer to refer to it as “journey modeling”. (more…)
When watching students attempt to find books to write a paper, we noticed that some of our participants had problems finding the library’s subsite under the right main-menu option. This is a violation of the ISO 9241-110 dialogue principle of self-descriptiveness. We realized we needed to improve the labeling of the main menu, so the user could better find the library (a high-priority area) on the site. (more…)
The early explorations and ideas. We wanted to see what would happen if we just removed all the containers from from the UI. Would the focus return to the objects themselves, or would the experience fall apart completely? Turns out the resulting container-less grid felt great, and the emphasis was finally back on the ideas people were saving on Pinterest. (more…)
Summary: Getting back to the homepage is about 6 times harder when the logo is placed in the center of a page compared to when it’s in the top left corner. (more…)
A basic duality: The Web was originally conceived as a hypertextual information space; but the development of increasingly sophisticated front- and back-end technologies has fostered its use as a remote software interface. This dual nature has led to much confusion, as user experience practitioners have attempted to adapt their terminology to cases beyond the scope of its original application. (more…)
A very hands on 3 hour workshop where participants had to sketch and prototype specific app ideas per team. (more…)
A Dark Pattern is a user interface that has been carefully crafted to trick users into doing things, such as buying insurance with their purchase or signing up for recurring bills. (more…)
What Is The Rainbow Spreadsheet?. The Rainbow Spreadsheet, which takes its name from the different colors used in it to represent the study’s participants, is a spreadsheet with which all of the data collected during a UX study is centrally and simultaneously documented by a team of people; for example, through a Google Doc. (more…)
Design patterns for mobile are emerging as the platform matures. Theresa Neil’s new book Mobile Design Pattern Gallery provides solutions to common design challenges. Read a sample chapter on Invitations and learn how to immediately engage your customers with your application. We recently had a new mobile project starting and all of our experienced mobile designers were booked. (more…)