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...
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...
Killer UI & Death Ray in Las Vegas Stanka Bozalieva / Wed, Jun 15, 2016 Parallels between familiar architectural conventions and the practice of user experience. The Deadly Serious Series. A few weeks ago I was offering an “ expert ” opinion as a classically trained architect...
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...
Building a Bridge Between Designers and Developers DevToolsGuy / Mon, Jan 18, 2016 Back in the day, when the enterprise was a place of grey dull tools that users were pretty much forced to use against their will, application development practices were pretty simple. A consultant...
ISTA 2015 | UX Design and Software Development Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / Mon, Nov 9, 2015 On 19 November, 2015 I was invited to represent Infragistics at the Innovations in Software Technologies and Automation (ISTA) conference in Sofia, Bulgaria. I got to share the stage with some excellent...
The Power of Pumpkin Spice Darian O'Reilly / Thu, Sep 3, 2015 There are almost three weeks of summer left, all of the leaves are still on the trees and I’m already craving pumpkin. How has this traditionally Thanksgiving flavor taken over the third of the year between...
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 gather 'User Interface' requirements from stakeholders DevToolsGuy / Mon, Apr 6, 2015 Gathering UI requirements is simple right? You just need to ask end users what they want, what they need and from there get on with the business of developing the solution they asked for - whether it...
User Centered Dashboards: A Visual Design Approach Nicholas Pirolo / Fri, Mar 6, 2015 As a visual designer at Infragistics I am always keeping my eyes open for effective dashboard designs to lend inspiration to projects. By browsing design-rich websites like Pinterest, Behance, or Dribbble...