Posts Tagged ‘Interaction Design’
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Interaction Design In The Cloud
- May 10th, 2012
- 33 Comments
Interaction designers create wireframes in tools such as Adobe Illustrator, OmniGraffle and Microsoft Visio. However, emailing your old static designs will feel old fashioned once you see what these new tools can do. Going a step further, there are tools for the user review process, too. Just upload your ideas, ...
Read more...Removing Stumbling Blocks In Mobile Forms
- May 3rd, 2012
- 13 Comments
A few weeks ago, I was quite surprised when I saw the pavement quickly approaching while I was out for a walk. Laying there stunned, I soon realized what had happened: I fell. Ouch. B-minus. I normally try to be as attentive as possible, but this time a big crack in ...
Read more...Gamification And UX: Where Users Win Or Lose
- April 26th, 2012
- 26 Comments
The gaming industry is huge, and it can keep its audience consumed for hours, days and even weeks. Some play the same game over and over again — and occasionally, they even get out their 15-year-old Nintendo 64 to play some Zelda. Now, I am not a game designer. I actually ...
Read more...Mental Model Diagrams (Cartoon)
- April 23rd, 2012
- 21 Comments
We tend to carefully create our HTML and CSS, and meticulously place every pixel to our designs. We plan exactly where our content should be placed on a particular site. Among many other decisions we need to make, we always keep in mind to craft a great experience for all our ...
Read more...Designing With Audio: What Is Sound Good For?
- April 18th, 2012
- 13 Comments
Our world is getting louder. Consider all the beeps and bops from your smartphone that alert you that something is happening, and all the feedback from your appliances when your toast is ready or your oven is heated, and when Siri responds to a question you’ve posed. Today our technology ...
Read more...Give Your Website Soul With Emotionally Intelligent Interactions
- March 28th, 2012
- 52 Comments
What is it that makes us loyal fans of the websites and apps we love? When we sat down to answer this question for ourselves, we found that the websites and apps we truly love have one thing in common: soul. They’re humanized. They have emotional intelligence designed into the user ...
Read more...The Elements Of Navigation
- March 20th, 2012
- 28 Comments
When users look for information, they have a goal and are on a mission. Even before you started to read this article, chances are you did because you either had the implicit goal of checking what’s new on Smashing Magazine, or had the explicit goal of finding information about “Navigation ...
Read more...Mission Transition
- February 28th, 2012
- 24 Comments
Life and nature are one big transition. The sun slowly rises to mark a new day and then slowly sets to mark the end of the day and the beginning of night. We are created in the womb and from small cells we grow, are born and gradually age until ...
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