Recently, I was asked to review the usability of an audio configuration app and propose enhancements in the areas of navigation design, workflows, workspace management, and the overall usability of ...

We invite you to visualize the story in the above graphic (Figure 1). You answer your house door to find your friend sopping wet from a surprise rainstorm. Would you act as if the situation were ...

Figure 1. So many ways to greet a person—multi-language design. Multilingual design is a complex undertaking, but it is crucial for making websites accessible to international markets. You need to ...

A nervous thirteen-year-old girl sat in a pre-operative room. As she spoke with the anesthesiologist about the impending knee surgery, a nurse came by with a clipboard, requiring that the eighth ...

Augmented reality, or AR, is becoming mainstream. Sources from TechCrunch and ABI Research to Business Insider state that the industry of AR and VR (virtual reality) combined will reach more than $100 ...

Yves Béhar is the designer behind the One Laptop per Child Personal Computer (OLPC). Originally, the scaled-down, $100 laptop was greeted with skepticism by key industry players. But with the support ...

Imagine it’s 7:00 a.m. Your phone, lying quietly on your bedside table, suddenly lights up, and your alarm rings. You sit up, turn off the alarm, and pick up your phone. Before you fully awaken or ...

One of the most exciting career transitions one can go through, regardless of the discipline, is from individual contributor to manager. Becoming manager of a user experience team adds to that already ...

As part of a user interface design or user experience (UX) project, we—the researchers—walk through all the steps for generating great user experiences. We understand what people do, think, say, and ...

Figure 1. There’s much more to the user experience of a library than navigating the stacks. (Credit: Mauricio Lazo/UH Libraries) Libraries may not be the first thing that comes to mind when thinking ...

Text readability is often an accessibility obstacle in both real and digital worlds. I once got an invitation to an event that looked like Figure 1. Figure 1. Low-contrast text: Hard to see, hard to ...

In Asian countries, especially in Southeast Asia, user experience or UX until relatively recently has been thought to be just focused on the look and feel of an interface. Not only did the majority of ...