UX lessons from car gear stick designs

Habits and their role in design.In the world of new technologies and the user experience designed around them, we are often stuck within the thought of “newer is always better!” We soon find that this isn’t always the case, complaining that it’s hard to use, or not as good as we thought. But why so?..

Design is everything but everything isn’t design

Why brands put aesthetics ahead of everything else but need everything else for design to truly succeedAesthetics are an expression of purpose. What we believe, the choices we make, and the products and services we choose to use are bound up in our individual worldview and belief system. Our choices..

The most important soft skill for designers: Communication

Why strong communication skills are so significant to a designer’s success. Continue reading on UX Collective »

In search of the perfect search for Wikipedia

The Android app team improved one of their core features- searching for articles on Wikipedia. While we were making discovery more intelligent, personalized and efficient, we experienced a surprise.Original image by Alan Wilson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsBy Robin Schoenbaechler In a recent ..

Where there is beauty

How People Are Neurologically Attracted To Certain Things, and Why We Should Seek To Make Places as Instagrammable as Possible Continue reading on UX Collective »

My love letter to Adobe Flash

How Flash changed my life and what it has taught me about the future.https://medium.com/media/c961471ebb81d1ab3d20c4460e9f2b48/hrefFor those of us who came of age in the Dot Com Boom of the late ’90s and early 2000s, Flash was one of the most creatively liberating web technologies to ever come along..

In defense of design challenges

With specific conditions, of course. Continue reading on UX Collective »