A Night At The 2017 IxDA Awards Ceremony Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / Mon, Feb 20, 2017 As I wrote in an earlier blog, the Infragistics’ UX team was named a 2017 Interaction Design Association’s (IxDA) international awards competition finalist. It was a great honor to have been selected...
Infragistics – IxDA 2017 Peoples Choice Award Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / Wed, Jan 11, 2017 As Infragistics’ user experience consulting group here in Cranbury, the UX work that we do for our clients doesn’t always get the recognition it deserves. While our efforts positively affect the working...
UX Scotland 2016 Conference Recap Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / Thu, Jun 16, 2016 On the 7th - 9th of June, I was lucky enough to have been invited to speak at UX Scotland in Endinburgh. UX Scotland is the annual hands-on, practical UX and design conference for the UX, Service Design...
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...
Making Big Data Useful: Design, UX and Innovation Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / Mon, Oct 12, 2015 On October 23-24, 2015 I’ve been invited to speak at the User Centered Design (UCD) conference held annually in London. This is a more interesting conference than most (to me) because the talks center...
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...
7 Do's and Don'ts of DataViz Tim Brock / Thu, Feb 26, 2015 As sites like viz.wtf illustrate, there are many ways to create confusing and misleading data visualizations. There are also many common design-choice options that might be considered sub-optimal. This...
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...
Should I Choose a Pie Chart or a Bar Chart? Tim Brock / Thu, Jan 22, 2015 Imagine you want a chart that shows how some whole is divided up among its constituent parts. Popular convention may tell you to think in terms of a pie chart. As an example, here’s a bare-bones pie...
User-Centered Data Visualization. Part 5 – From Wrong to Right Tobias Komischke / Fri, Aug 29, 2014 Here’s a cool data viz story. A large weekly magazine in Europe has recently published some statistics about Ebola cases in four African countries. It’s in German, but bear with me here. Per country...