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Have you ever experienced a feeling of disappointment about some purchase? Was it a birdhouse that birds were not interested in? Or a coffee grinder that did not grind coffee well? Similarly, a feeling of disappointment (or even frustration) is the thing experienced by an end-user of a poorly develo..

I asked 300+ engineers what type of pre-onsite interview experience they prefer and this is what I found out. Continue reading on UX Collective »

Design essentials: Bézier curves. Continue reading on UX Collective »

The Single Usability Metric (SUM) — A completion rate conundrumTL;DR — In the SUM benchmarking method, the calculation of completion rates creates a bias for completion rates which artificially inflates all ‘good’ scores and marks some ‘poor’ scores as ‘good’. I cover two methods to augment the SUM ..

Let’s understand how your eyes and brain play the magic of perception. Continue reading on UX Collective »

How to provide what users want, while keeping them accountable for what they tweet Continue reading on UX Collective »

(But let’s try to do better from now on.)Drawn in Adobe Illustrator by the author.Today is March 8th, or International Women’s Day, and the entire month of March is to celebrate women’s history. Though it is always nice to be reminded of all the advancements women have made in infiltrating male-domi..

The technology is here to stay, but with the more mainstream adoption come design challenges that were until now unsolved. Continue reading on UX Collective »

The prior linguistic revolution of the compiler Continue reading on UX Collective »

There are so few independent publications currently being produced in South Africa, and even fewer with a coherent design sensibility. All the more reason to know about those publications that have made a historic impression, and support those that are currently trying to create history. It should b..