User Experience.UX Design

Art vs. Design, Form and Function

Good design can seem subjective. Most design award contests are expert-judged, and the judging criteria are seldom formally defined or revealed. This may afford judges lots of latitude in their scoring, but there is a cost to the rest of us. This approach can leave untrained people thinking design quality is subjective; merely personal taste. And though it can sometimes be, it certainly need not be. So let's make a distinction, for baseline clarity. One of the main distinctions between design ... Read Full Good Design Article »

Today, Adaptive Path's Aurora hit the bits (previously, airwaves). Most likely you've already seen the video. Though Apple and others have been testing the 3-D GUIs waters form some time now, with the "genie" icons rising when we "run" the My first impression recalled the same images that others recalled who I've talked with about it: Adaptive Path’s Aurora Article »

In this second installment of Googleyness and Yahoo! we compare the services that, you might say, keep the lights on; search engine marketing (SEM), to assess for ourselves which is "Googleyer", according to Google's own definition of Googleyness.

First, The Contender

Yahoo! Search E... Read Full Googleyness and Yahoo! II Article »

Yes, Google is very Googley. As Yahoo! is, well, Yahoo-ey, I suppose. But is Yahoo! actually Googley-er than Google itself? Using a simple UX score card, let's see. How well, then, does Google measure up against its own UX... Read Full Googleyness and Yahoo! Article »