UXify US 2017 | Conference Recap Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / Thu, Apr 13, 2017 What is UXify? Infragistics held its 5 th annual, US-based UXify event on Friday, 7 April 2017 at our global headquarters in Cranbury, NJ. UXify is our half-day user experience conference filled with...
Don’t Get Stuck (to the bottom of a beer mug) Darian O'Reilly / Mon, Mar 20, 2017 This past weekend I had a little post-St. Patrick’s Day fun hanging out with my husband at a local biergarten. We drank some delicious Belgian beer, shared a giant pretzel, and spent the afternoon people...
Want to Work with Infragistics’ Consulting Team? Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / Mon, Feb 6, 2017 What is Infragistics Consulting? Since its inception in 2008, the Infragistics Consulting Team has worked with customers across a wide variety of verticals and business challenges to design and build...
McMansion Problems - Don’t Design for the Extras Darian O'Reilly / Mon, Oct 24, 2016 There is a blog that I love called McMansion Hell – you know those crazy monster houses built in bulk starting in the 1980’s? They are usually found in great clusters and sometimes on very small pieces...
How to Build UX Culture in the Company Raya Dimitrova / Thu, Aug 4, 2016 Why would you care about creating a “UX culture” in the workplace? And what does that even mean? If you are a fan of definitions, here’s one for “UX culture”: The awareness of the team members/company...
The Stroop Effect and its Implications in UX Design Darian O'Reilly / Mon, Feb 8, 2016 What happens when your brain is trying to process conflicting streams of information? Let’s find out. Read this list of colors to yourself: Red Green Blue Purple Black Brown Yellow Red...
ISTA 2015 Recap | Time for Software to Grow Up Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / Fri, Jan 15, 2016 On 19 November, 2015 I spoke at the Innovations in Software Technologies and Automation (ISTA) conference in Sofia, Bulgaria. My presentation, “ Design, Usability and Complex Systems ”, centered on the...
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...
Customer Experience Guru Mark Hurst at Infragistics Tobias Komischke / Thu, Jul 2, 2015 Recently, we had the great pleasure to welcome Mark Hurst to the Infragistics headquarters. Mark is the founder of the well-known annual GEL conference in New York City. He’s also the founder and CEO...
Great UX gives customers something they didn’t know they needed Cindy Pae-Moebius / Thu, Jan 15, 2015 Some of the best user experiences come when something delightful and unexpected happens that help users or customers with a problem they didn’t even know they had. The art of creating a need that never...