User Experience.UX Design

Dan Saffer's first foray in to print publishing, Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices, is a tight little knit of a book. It starts from the beginning... well, the beginning of interaction design, and tours us through its evolution to the present. Here, for better or worse (jury is out), it begins to bleed out from the digital to analog world. Though... Read Full Designing For Interaction Article »

Jesse James Garrett began writing The Elements of User Experience - User-Centered Design For The Web in 2001. The date and title alone are poof of Garrett's thought leadership in the area of web design. This important and nascent work was spawned by the popularity, as evidenced by tens of thousands ... Read Full Elements of User Experience Article »

And the Designers Who Don't Love Them

Some psychologists have said that fathers and sons are in competition, in a sense, because both are in love with the same woman. Oedipus thought so. Electra, too, as she assumed the female equivalent of Oedipus' complex. For our part, however, can designers and their managers have a similar sort of problem in their relationship? To a greater degree than for other professions, designers and the managers who direct them share a love of strategic de... Read Full Managers Who Love Design… Article »