Experience Design (XD)

Flipboard iPad App is addictive. At 3 billion flips per month, its growth is phenomenal. But I did not need those statistics to convince me that the secret of its success lies in its careful attention to the reading experience. In this post, I am contrasting it with the reader app by Google called Google […]

Objective-C on the iOS platform continues to rise in popularity. Between iOS and Android platforms, now there are close to 1.6 billion apps. This is a phenomenal number of apps. Given this explosion, it is but natural to see the proliferation of some excellent open source frameworks on social code repositories like Github and Google Code. This […]

A report out the other day by an industry group that tracks shipments of flat panel screens (TVs to LDC monitors) has an interesting statistic in that the screen size for mobile phones has increased 38% in the past three years.  While the group took the average of mobile phone screen sizes, I took a […]

The International Academy of the Visual Arts W3 Awards has released the winners of its 7th annual web competition, and “The Art of Window Dressing” is among them. The Hunter Douglas iPad application has been granted the 2012 Silver Award in the Mobile Applications – Shopping category. This is the third award “The Art of […]

… that the “Key To Great Web Software Is A Consistent, Intuitive User Experience“ Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)  providers, according to last week’s Forbes article, will need to focus on the user’s experience across all products. The author, Alexander Pasik, Ph.D., CIO for IEEE, points to Google’s cloud computer services as “providing best-in-class user experiences that are consistent across […]

Enlighten was acquired by Perficient Digital in December 2015 The Case of the Mysterious Consumer Packaged Goods Site Redesign Recently, I had the privilege of being part of a team of fellow Enlighten-ers (now Perficient Digital) who presented at IUE2012 (Internet User Experience Conference) in Ann Arbor. IUE2012 brought together top industry speakers, practitioners, and […]

When discussing great data presentation, Edward Tufte is often cited, with good reason. Good data presentation has always been important. It is especially necessary to achieve the potential with Big Data, uniting Information Management and Experience Design. I’m indebted to Perficient colleague Brian Dudley for introducing me to Hans Rosling and his inspiring way of presenting data. Rosling […]

Celebrities are immediately recognizable and in some cases, the majority of the people using the persona may have a good idea of “who” that person is. So it would make sense to consider using them for personas, however in most cases this is a poor choice. I’ll use Matt LeBlanc as an example. Matt played Joey Tribbiani on […]

Jared Spool presented “The Secret Lives of Links” as the closing keynote at Big Design 2012. Links do not get enough of our attention and too often are viewed as “just a way to connect stuff.” The fact that websites still have links with “click here” and “learn more” (first and second place for worst links, […]

Axure, an interactive prototyping tool, allows you to publish prototypes online at AxShare. I tried it out today and overall, it is a nice tool and provides a quick, simple way to share clickable prototypes with others.  AxShare isn’t a new tool – Molly Malsam had mentioned it in as a “Collaboration Tools I Wouldn’t Want to Live […]

I had the privilege to present at Big Design 2012 in Dallas, TX. I’ve wanted to go to Big Design since it hit the scene a few years ago as I’d heard many wonderful things from friends and peers that have gone. During my visit, I was able to meet up with old friends, find […]

Earlier this month I presented “Resizing User Experience” at Midwest UX down in Columbus, OH. No, I didn’t talk about how to fit a website on a wristwatch—I addressed a persistent challenge faced by those who work at a design agency: how to adjust process and scale your efforts appropriately when the scope of projects […]