Mobile

One of the primary principles in designing forms for the web is to keep them as simple and easy as possible. You can generally expect about a 15% drop off for every step in the process – literally every field in the form – as each discrete step is  an opportunity for the user to […]

Prototyping is by far my favorite activity to perform as a UX Designer, followed up naturally with user research. Prototyping is a natural problem solving technique that allows you to quickly create a vision of the solution, or multiple solutions, for a design problem and share that vision with others. In most cases, it’s cheap […]

I’m usually a more is more guy, but I have to concede when it comes to building mobile apps. As the world moves towards mobile computing, at Perficient XD we get a lot of clients that want to jump into mobile for the first time. They have great ideas for all the things they want […]

Form Follows Function has put out a growing set of interactive examples using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. What you’ll find there is some really interesting interaction and occasionally seizure-inducing animation. Are all of the examples practical? No, but that’s not the point. What is being shown off here is that with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript, you […]

According to IDEO, “Design Thinking is a about believing we can make a difference, and having an intentional process in order to get to new relevant solutions that create positive impact.” It is also described as being human-centered, collaborative, optimistic and experimental. IDEO follows an open-source process to implement Design Thinking by dividing it into the […]

Back in October of 2012, I wrote about how smartphone screen had steadily grown with the current king being the Samsung Galaxy S III with a 4.8-in, 1,280 × 720 display (the best-selling smartphone during third quarter of 2012).  However, the big news out of the Consumer Electronics Show recently held in Las Vegas was […]

Being on the bench gives a man more time to do what he truly enjoys: mindlessly playing around with new technologies, APIs and generally making a lot of cool stuff that doesn’t really do anything. Enter…the gyroscope! What is a gyroscope? No, it is not a telescope that automatically zooms in on the nearest Greek […]

2013 has been touted by many Payment Pundits (including us right here on the Perficient FS blog) as “The Year of Mobile”.   While many articles and posts have been written about what mobile banking should be, I wanted to take a moment to caution what it might become. We all know the feeling of checking […]

Green Dot Corporation is on a mission to reinvent personal banking for the masses. Its market leading brand of prepaid debit cards and prepaid reload services are available to consumers at more than 60,000 retail locations nationwide and online.  In early 2012, Green Dot made a move in the mobile space by purchasing Loopt, a location-based mobile […]

Key Points The adoption rate of mobile devices is off the charts. There are about 120 million smartphone devices in the United States and between 40 to 45 million tablets. The Television and Video Game industries are offering increasing amounts of supplemental content optimized for mobile devices broadly to encourage multi-screen engagement and specifically to […]

It is an 8 KB substitute for jQuery. That should answer both of those questions. In the world of Javascript libraries there are a plethora of options, but no one knows what any of them are; we all just use jQuery. jQuery is powerful, it caters to all browsers, and above all it works. However, […]

The first time I saw someone use Square was last year during a brief shopping excursion in Chinatown. I was in San Francisco for a User Experience conference and had a few hours free to explore. I had just found what I would refer to as the “cutest iPhone case ever” shaped like a bright […]