The idea that good UX isn’t simply the absence of usability issues. I intend to draw parallels between the fields of well-being and UX in order to illustrate the factors that define and foster Positive UX and the implications this may have on measuring good experience with the web.
No matter how motivated we are or how much effort we invest in our work, it doesn’t change the fact that we devote a sizable chunk of our careers to working on brands no one truly cares about….
Design has never been more accessible than at this moment, and design is getting more and more accessible. Not only are design tools more user friendly, design thinking is a skill-set that is used…
Frog’s Robert Fabricant breaks down the themes from the 2011 Interaction Design Awards.
“Technologies like cheap sensors and cloud computing are increasingly being used to augment our daily…
On the Quora, Alexia Tsotsis asked an interesting question: What are the key differences between “Normals” (normal mainstream users) and tech early adopters? Here’s the answer I posted:
I’ve…
Savvy marketers understand these days it’s not how much traffic you drive to your site, but how many of those visitors are being turned into customers—turning to multivariate testing (MVT) is key in…
By Janet M. Six
Published: December 19, 2011
Send your questions to Ask UXmatters and get answers from some of the top professionals in UX. In this edition of Ask UXmatters, our experts discuss how…
Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication
—Leonardo da Vinci
In his now classic book Art and Visual Perception, Rudolph Arnheim noted that people will perceive and interpret…
You can improve your sketching and paper prototyping abilities by adopting some of the methods used by Leonardo da Vinci in his sketchbooks. Leonardo was a prolific sketcher, filling his…
In his Designing for Emotion: Sex, Love, & Violence presentation at the Warm Gun Design Conference in San Francisco, CA Dave McClure walked through several ways to create emotion in people that…
