Ideas

SEO and UX: Common Goals

User experience begins with the very first impression of a product or service brand. Many of us acknowledge the close relationship between information architecture (IA)...

Michael Cummings in Ideas
Apr 25 - 4 min read

Design Bliss

Designers often feel misunderstood and underutilized in their organizations. Is this because the other two main parts of the interaction design triad, business and technology,...

Michael Cummings in Ideas
Apr 4 - 5 min read

Minority Report Mouse’s Demise

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...

Michael Cummings in Ideas
Mar 17 - 2 min read

How Sociable Is Your Media?

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...

Michael Cummings in Ideas
Mar 8 - 3 min read

How To Win Users

Dale Carnegie published How to Win Friends and Influence People in 1936. This book has sold many millions of copies and been translated in do...

Michael Cummings in Ideas
Jan 25 - 5 min read

Can The Web Save Us?

Some of us have held secret hopes for the web, that it will help extend the reach of democratic principals beyond the political sphere, as...

Michael Cummings in Ideas
Jun 29 - 6 min read

Stumbling on Usability

Whether we know it or not, we all have psychological blind spots, and struggle with realism versus idealism. It is a natural part of the...

Michael Cummings in Ideas
Nov 4 - 6 min read