Posts Tagged ‘User Experience’
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Fables, Myths And NarrativesConverting Our Stories Into Multi-Screen Experiences
- May 13th, 2013
- 13 Comments
Storytelling takes many forms. In the past, stories were told orally, with people telling and retelling myths, fables and even histories. As writing technology became more prevalent, we began to record our stories, and we told them in the pages of books. Now, our society is awash in different devices and ...
Read more...Whiteboards, Visions And Banned WordsHow To Help A Real-Life Knight Achieve His Goals
- May 7th, 2013
- 22 Comments
This article is about design consultancy. It’s about wrangling that client who uses empty sentences like, “We want a snappy, simple experience,” or, “It should be on brand and should really pop.” It’s about commanding the room and setting a vision before moving on to wireframes and pixels. While I’ll talk ...
Read more...Design PatternsInfinite Scrolling: Let’s Get To The Bottom Of This
- May 3rd, 2013
- 48 Comments
Infinite scroll promised to provide users with a better experience. However, the good is often accompanied by the bad and the ugly. Once we understand the strengths and weaknesses of infinite scrolling, we can begin to use it to empower our interfaces. Human nature’s framed perception demands an hierarchic interface; an ...
Read more...Mechanism Of Action And EffectsDesigning Great Feedback Loops
- February 15th, 2013
- 6 Comments
The products we build are full of feedback loops, whether we know it or not. People who study human behavior agree that feedback loops play a critical role in what we do. From biofeedback to the quantified self, designers and psychologists alike are discovering the real power that these cyclical ...
Read more...Removing Interface ElementsShould You Ask The User Or Their Browser?
- February 4th, 2013
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The history of the Internet has been a steady march towards websites that are richer, bigger and more interactive. As websites have become more robust, we — as designers and developers — have often placed the burden on our users to make more decisions, each of which distracts them from ...
Read more...Effectively Planning UX Design Projects
- January 24th, 2013
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Planning user experience (UX) projects is a balancing act of getting the right amount of user input within the constraints of your project. The trick is to work out the best use of your time. How can you get the most UX goodness for your client’s budget? This article explains ...
Read more...UX Design Q&AAdaptive Vs. Responsive Layouts And Optimal Form Field Labels
- November 8th, 2012
- 35 Comments
Welcome to a new column in the UX Design section on Smashing Magazine! Each month we’ll pick a handful of popular questions asked by our readers around good practices in designing smart and usable experiences. They will be answered by Christian Holst, a regular author here on Smashing and founder ...
Read more...Motion & AnimationA New Mobile UX Design Material
- October 30th, 2012
- 18 Comments
Growing up, weekends were about worship in the Hinman household. Sunday mornings were reserved for a laborious worship ritual dictated by my parents. It required dressing up in uncomfortable clothes, going to church and pretending to listen to long-winded sermons about Jesus (while I drew doodles in the hymnals). Saturday, however, ...
Read more...StrategyFixing A Broken User Experience
- September 27th, 2012
- 24 Comments
Unless you’re developing completely new products at a startup, you likely work in an organization that has accumulated years of legacy design and development in its products. Even if the product you’re working on is brand spanking new, your organization will eventually need to figure out how to unify the ...
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