You’re a designer or a UX specialist. Let’s take this scenario – you get assigned to a project, and the conversations with the product manager (or the person briefing you) is similar to below: “We have no documentation of the project, it’s not in our company culture- everything is verbal as it keeps changing sometimes...
The more I learn about web & mobile users I reflect back to my parents & the quirky things they used to do. Some decades ago when I was still living with them, one night after work they came home really excited with a new purchase— a VCR with a bar code scanner. They’ve enthusiastically explained to...
Recently Barcelona (Spain) had hosted the annual Mobile World Congress where Mark Zukerburg was the guest speaker. The latest buzz with tech giants including Facebook was the Virtual Reality (VR) being integrated in their customers’ immersive experience and how this is just “around the corner” from today. Yes, the same VR technology that we were...
Latest statistics show that 93% of online experiences begin with a search engine. In other words, if not for decent Search Engine Optimization helping users land on your website, the User Experience for it would not even get started at all. On the flip-side, if the website fails to give a good experience to the visitors and they bounce...
There are times that I feel I suffer from mild ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder), especially when I’m navigating through Chrome on my smart phone or browsing for something in my tablet or laptop. Does the following symptoms ring a bell? Be easily distracted, miss details, frequently switch from one activity to another, become bored easily,...
A-12 in San Diego, California Every once in awhile you simply stop & marvel at some designs—I did exactly that on my recent trip to San Diego when coming face-to-face with this amazing piece of design & engineering called the A-12 Blackbird, the predecessor to the devastating Stealth Bomber.The A-12’s design brief to the designers...
Illustration credit: Phyliss Gilbert In the many years I’ve been working in the digital media industry I kept seeing recurring patterns–whether it be in a board room as a project manager or as a freelance designer, it was the same potential slow-train wreck I can foresee. Be it from your manager or the client, it...
The big news this year in 2012 was Apple suing Samsung for ripping off its iPhone & iPad devices. This is intriguing for designers.Apple won the case in the US claiming Samsung had copied much of its User Interface designs – this brought into the light that GUI can indeed be patented contrary to many...
User Experience design, or UX— a common term these days in the industry of app/web design. The term was coined by Don Norman, an academic & author of key UX design books such as “The Design of Every Day Things”. He came up with the term while serving as a VP at Apple. He comments:...
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