The Magic is in the Details: The Beauty of Well Designed Micro-interactions and the Horror of Badly Designed Ones Diane Spengel / Fri, Jul 31, 2015 What are microinteractions? Microinteractions are the tiny details of a process that create the flow from beginning to completion. Dan Saffler defines Microinteractions as single moments within a use...
How to Create Effective Dashboards – More Q&A Tobias Komischke / Mon, Jan 26, 2015 We had a great turnout for the webinar on Dashboard design , thank you for joining! There were so many great questions and comments about User Experience and Design that we could not cover them all during...
What’s new in iOS 7? Neither features nor functions, but user experience! Miao Wang / Tue, Jul 30, 2013 On June 10, 2013 Apple announced its new mobile operating system – iOS 7 . It gained a lot of attention with its new visual style but was also controversial. Many people felt uncomfortable with the...
Galaxy S4 And The Quest For The Perfect Retina Display Tobias Komischke / Mon, Mar 18, 2013 The new Samsung Galaxy S4 has some nice features: Hover state. This is made possible through the phone recognizing the proximity of your finger towards the screen surface. This is not new, Sony’s...
AVG’s new Windows 8 style UI (formerly known as Metro). Tobias Komischke / Wed, Sep 19, 2012 AVG is an anti-virus software. In anticipation of the upcoming Windows 8, they’ve just modernized their UI to look like Windows 8 style UI – what was formerly known as Metro. It used to look like...
User Experience and Windows Embedded Compact 7 Tobias Komischke / Thu, Mar 10, 2011 Microsoft launched the successor of Windows CE 6 last week with events in New York City, Minneapolis, MN and Mountain View, CA. Compact 7 has many cool features. From a user experience perspective the...
Battling My Smart Phone Tobias Komischke / Thu, Dec 2, 2010 I’m preparing a conference session about how rich interactivity changes UX methods, processes, and best practices. I thought I’d be on top of it all, but then I got a new smart phone. It’s a Samsung Galaxy...
Minority Report Must Die! Tobias Komischke / Thu, Nov 4, 2010 This Sci-Fi flick came out 8 long years ago. It was a pretty good movie, I watched it several times. It got a 7.7 out of 10 points on imdb . Cool. But isn’t it time to move forward and stop using these...
My Dr. Dobbs article on multi-touch, multi-user, gesture-based design [Infragistics] Joel Eden / Mon, Apr 27, 2009 A few weeks ago Dr. Dobbs published a pretty lengthy (and informative) article of mine titled “Designing for Multi-Touch, Multi-User, and Gesture-Based Systems.” In my opinion, it’s very easy to...