User Experience.UX Design

SEO and UX Design User experience, and our abilities as designers to guide and influence it positively, "starts from when you first hear about a product," says Don Norman. And we should listen. After all, he coined "user experience design" over a decade ago. So what does search engine optimiz... Read SEO and UX: Common Goals »

Design Bliss, Even In A Down Economy In the world of software interaction design we talk a lot about empathic design. That's good, because designing well means understanding well the people we're designing for. But can we have empathy without compassion? Empathy and compassion can not only make u... Read Design Bliss »

User Interface Pre-cog's Predict End of the Mouse We've likely all seen it: John Anderton, played by Tom Cruise, snaps on his information man-handling gloves and proceeds to literally manipulate the recorded premonitions (future memories?) served up by the pre-cog (not to be confused with a Hap... Read Minority Report Mouse’s Deminse »

The Peril and Promise of Web "3.0" As you probably know the etymology of "democratic" is Greek; prefix demo- "people" + kratia "rule". People rule in a democracy. If people rule in your design process, then it is essentially a democratic project. But ask yourself, do they rule... really? Bein... Read How Sociable Is Your Media? »

How To Win Users and Influence Their Behavior Most of us who have practiced, and sometimes merely preached, user-centered design understand that at its core it means giving people what they want, not what we think they do, and especially to strive never, ever, to assume that they want what we do... Read How To Win Users »

Physics, The Internet, and Culture, Oh My! The Web (yes, it is a place) has expanded network consciousness. As life itself is now widely considered to be a network of networks, inter-connected by information feedback loops allowing co-evolution, will human society's impact on nature become more, ... Read Can The Web Save Us? »

Of Bugs and Humbugs We all have blind spots. Literally and figuratively. Blind spots are areas of reality we are not normally aware of. We have blind spots of vision (physiological), blind spots of perception (experiential and cultural), even of blind spots of themselves (psychological). Not ... Read Stumbling on Usability »