Experience Design (XD)

In my last post, I wrote about the importance of changing the thinking about accessible design and how design itself is a powerful tool for change. Designing for change was a second strong theme at Big Design 2012, continuing from Big Design and UPA last year. Several sessions explored using design to bring about change, […]

I had the pleasure of attending the Big Design conference again this year. The theme that emerged for me was accessibility, both for several insightful sessions on the topic and for the effort that the conference organizers put into making this excellent regional conference as accessible as possible.

Google has been pushing Responsive Web Design hard lately. In April they posted Responsive design – harnessing the power of media queries, which went into Google’s best practices for web development (spoiler alert: they like Responsive Web Design, a lot). There’s even a high-level tutorial for making your own site responsive.

When was the last time you saw a floppy disk (outside of a museum, or your friendly IT guy’s stash)? In all likelihood it’s been a while. There may very well be some of you reading this who have never actually held a floppy disk, let alone used one. Oh man, that makes me feel […]

Use Cases Determine Design A few weeks ago LinkedIn released their iPad app; it was immediately praised for it’s slick interface and immediate usability. With a full-featured and flexible site like LinkedIn, most users expect a recreation of the original desktop website with a minor design change for tablets. What LinkedIn actually delivered shows more […]

Responsive Web Design is all over the place right now. Some of it’s even on the Internet! And many of you are doubtless thinking, “Self, how can I get some of that hotness?” Well, you’re in luck! (But only if you promise to stop referring to yourself as “self” when you think out-loud). On April […]

This article is being shared and re-posted a lot today across a variety of social networks. TechCrunch published an article titled “User Experience and the Poison on the Tip of the Arrow“. In the post, Uzi Schmilovici argues that “amazing design is not enough.” “Real design is about solving problems,” he says, and ultimately a […]

It is clear that there is still a misunderstanding of what a “robots.txt” file is used for and what meta name=”robots” is and does. Therefore, I thought why not break it down in laymans terms for everyone to hopefully help you when deciding which to employ and when. Robots.txt The robots.txt file is a simple […]

I have worked with many developers and designers on both front-end websites and back-end applications. Working through the user experience of an interface is one of the most important elements in any of these projects, and in the last couple of years, I have been fortunate enough to have worked with project managers and developers […]

As a developer, there are many languages one can select to learn, practice, master and work with. Browsing online, I found an article by Jobs Tractor that shows the languages demanded most in the job market today. Article: Jobs Tractor language trends March 2012  

Tomer Sharon’s book, “It’s Our Research: Getting stakeholder buy-in for user experience research projects” just came out and though I’m still reading it, I am already ready to recommend it (disclaimer: I contributed a Case Study to it). Earlier this month I was fortunate enough to attend and speak at the IA Summit and not surprisingly I […]

Great products are not usually created by just one person. They are collaborative projects that involve many people with different personal and professional experiences. Bringing all of these individuals together to create something for someone they may never have met is challenging at best. Teams that are good at working together and helping each other […]