Experience Design (XD)

The title of this post by CIO.com caught my attention immediately this morning: How IT Pros Can Use Pinterest for Career Growth Pinterest launched in 2010, and since then I have kept my eyes on its growth and how people are using it for sharing and posting visual content. I never thought that the visual […]

One web, under the internet, flexible enough to deliver content for us all. Sounds great, but in two years we’re all going to have the same site. One web. That’s where we live now. It’s obvious, but I can’t say I’m ecstatic about the design implications. On the one hand, for the vast majority of […]

Perficient recently donated its time and resources to make over the 826michigan (www.826michigan.org) website. The site redesign aimed to provide the 826michigan team with the tools necessary to efficiently manage its content while also delivering an enhanced experience for website visitors and volunteers. Several of us here “have volunteered with 826michigan in some capacity over the […]

On Tuesday, 7 May at 4:00 EDT, I will be presenting at the 2013 Summit conference of the Society for Technical Communication (STC). I will be talking about how to effectively communicate user interface and interaction design to project team members and stakeholders to ensure the delivered product captures the user goals set out at the […]

If you’ve never heard of it, the Google Font directory is an online repository of free, open-source fonts that have been web optimized and ready for your use.  There are hundreds of them from Display to Handwriting, Serif to Sans Serif.  The Sans Serif is the home of Open Sans by Steve Matteson. http://www.google.com/fonts#Analytics:total With the release […]

Last week Harry Roberts of CSS Wizardry posted an article that caught my attention. It was simply titled “shame.css.” http://csswizardry.com/2013/04/shame-css/ He talks about the issue all developers face at some point in the life-cycle of a project – having to hack together code to get a defect fixed quickly. It’s the struggle between wanting to keep code […]

Enlighten was acquired by Perficient Digital in December 2015 Enlighten (now Perficient Digital) announced the launch of YearlyMe (www.yearlyme.com), a digital photo archive website that allows users to upload and share one photo for every year of their lives. The “digital yearbook” aims to provide users with a simple way to document, preserve and share photographs […]

If you believe you are a good software designer, the great news about creating mobile applications is that with mobile apps: design is everything. Time and time again, it has been show that users value good design and its impact on usability. As with everything else in life, we’re all individuals, with different preferences and […]

Smartphone penetration in the United States has reached 55% of the general population* and and the number of email opens on smartphones and tablets have increased 80% of the last six months**. These two facts have serious consequences for companies and organizations, and their communication platforms. Beyond the obvious need to build email to appear well-formed and structured […]

At the end of the third day of SxSW, I sat in on a session about Behavior Change and how design can use that as a value proposition. Chris Risdon, of Adaptive Path, was the speaker, and it was great to sit in on this topic again and see how much it’s matured since the […]

The third day of SxSW started off with a provocative session given by Golden Krishna (website) on the concept of No UI and the invisible interface. On the surface, I really enjoyed the presentation and the material that Golden covered, but I didn’t “fall in love” with his argument as many others did. In fact, since the […]

Following a wonderful experience working with upcoming SxSW speakers during the Tweak Your Talk workshop, Russ Unger delivered his presentation on the life of Jim Henson and the lessons UX Designers can learn from him. I’ve personally been able to see the evolution of this talk of the years and it was great to see it presented […]