AIGA Conference Recap Darian O'Reilly / Mon, Nov 7, 2016 I had the pleasure of attending the 2016 AIGA Conference in Las Vegas a few weeks ago. The theme of the conference this year was “The Shape of Design” and attendees were given the opportunity to hear...
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...
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...
UXify 2015: The Future of UX Design Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / Thu, Apr 2, 2015 I usually write blogs with an eye toward how I see our profession progressing so this one will be a bit different. For the past 2 years, the UX Design organization here at Infragistics has hosted a local...
The Off-Season Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / Mon, Apr 28, 2014 In the user experience profession, as in sports and school, there is often a time “between”… between projects, between seasons, between semesters. Call it down-time, the local minima between the peaks...
Benefits of Semiotics in User Interface Design jsalvador / Fri, Sep 13, 2013 Overview Essentially, Semiotics is the study of signs or symbols and their meanings. It is a science that seeks to investigate how signs are formed and its core concept is to define the transfer of...
UX, Design and Rich Application Frameworks Kevin Richardson, Ph.D. / Tue, Sep 3, 2013 With the advent of rich application frameworks (and the increased exposure to interaction models they make possible) it isn’t difficult to imagine that usability and design professionals may be feeling...
10 Design trends 2013 – Where did all the gradients go? Megan Isaak / Tue, Jul 23, 2013 Here is a list of 10 design trends I'm seeing this year: Large images beautiful imagery Something that has become more and more popular in the design world is putting your header copy of a big beautiful...
Evaluating the New Pinterest Megan Isaak / Mon, Jul 15, 2013 Yes, Its true. I'm a Pinterest Addict. I spend my free time browsing everything from Photography to new recipes and UI patterns to cute outfits. The site already has millions of users and a great design...
UX of Responsive Web Design Marshal Datkowitz / Wed, Jan 23, 2013 What is Responsive Web Design? Ethan Marcotte first used the term Responsive Web Design in his article in A List Apart in May of 2010. Marcotte explains that designing for every screen size and device...