The Role of UI: Why Design Matters
By Dr. Sean Carton, Chief Creative Officer and Professor of the Practice at the University of Baltimore “Design” is one of those words that we… Read More
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Designing for the iPad
Unless you’ve been living in an old mayonaise jar, you’ve probably heard about this “magical and revolutionary” new device revealed by Apple on January 27th… Read More
Affordance Vs Natural Mapping
Ted and I were talking about some of the reading he is doing for school (he just started the Human-Centered Computing Graduate program at… Read More
It’s Broken
In a fantastic and still relevant talk from 2006, Seth Godin discusses broken design with the same frustration I feel on a day to… Read More
Are captchas getting harder?
I have noticed lately that Captchas, those ubiquitous letter-images designed to fool computers (but supposedly readable by humans) have been getting absolutely… Read More
Visual Searching
As the amount of information continues to grow on the internet, it is becoming harder and harder to find stuff. As you know, necessity is… Read More
Know Your Users – It Matters
There is an interesting article published on Boxes and Arrows a couple of weeks ago that I wanted to share with you. The article… Read More
Advanced Searching Sucks
Boxes and Arrows has a great article about Searching. The article is worth reading and the discussion thread is fantastic. Stephen Turbek’s… Read More
Usability Testing 101: 10 Tips for Better Results
Recently, a client asked us to put together a list of high level “dos” and “don’ts” for usability testing. It has taken us several… Read More
Another tool for the everyday narcissist?
If you haven’t seen this already, then take a moment to checkout Google’s newest addition to their ever-so-ubiquitous Googlemaps tool – Street… Read More