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Color is a wonderful component of interactive design.
If you use color well, you’ll command user attention. But use it like a master and your digital products will feel more trustworthy, comforting, or whatever emotions make sense for your design goals.
Blunder it and you risk damaging your visual hierarchy, info arc... | ['Behavioral Economics', 'Design Patterns', 'UX', 'UX Research', 'Interaction Design'] |
The brilliant author and observer, Scott Berkun (@berkun), asked (on Twitter) the provocative question:
What is the greatest design lesson you’ve ever learned?
There were many varied replies, and I finally weighed in with my answer:
The design of the behavior of digital systems is not at all the same kind of design ... | ['Cognition', 'Ts', 'Design', 'UX', 'Interaction Design'] |
Working memory
There is an extensive classification for all the different types of memory.
For our purposes as a designer, working memory (part of short-term memory) is the most relevant. The shortest type of memory is known as working memory, which typically only lasts a couple of seconds during a task.
In other wo... | ['Technology', 'Startup', 'Design', 'Interaction Design', 'Product Design'] |
Recursive by Arrow Type
www.recursive.design
Recursive is a variable font built to “maximize versatility, control, and performance”. Recursive comes in a proportional and mono version, both of which can be further controlled along four axes: Weight, Casual, Slant, and Cursive. The Casual cut echoes the soft & curvy b... | ['UI', 'Typography', 'Variable Fonts', 'UX', 'Interaction Design'] |
Why IxDF?
Wide Spectrum of Courses
They offer basic courses like Design Thinking, User Experience Beginners Guide, User Interface Design Patterns, etc. along with advanced courses like Brain Science in Interface Design, Psychology of Interaction Design, etc
Available courses
Quality of Content
All these courses ar... | ['Design Thinking', 'User Interface', 'User Experience', 'Design', 'Interaction Design'] |
I utilized the paper prototypes by asking them to write notes directly on them . It was an informal session so we did have discussions throughout. The individuals were opinionated and unafraid to debate when they disagreed on something. Even though most of the sessions throughout the day consisted of two people plus my... | ['User Testing', 'Civic Engagement', 'Civictech', 'Apps', 'Interaction Design'] |
TEAM MEMBERS
INHAE KIM — Interaction Designer
Special Task: Creating mobile interfaces and designing user interactions
MELODY XU — Product Designer
Special Task: Creating a prototype using physically computed components and a 3D printed enclosure
PROJECT CONCEPT
Figure 1. A sketch of the primary design concept
R... | ['3D Printing', 'Prototyping', 'UX', 'Interaction Design', 'Product Design'] |
Design in the Everyday Context
The theme for this past week of our Design Methodology Seminar was Design in the Everyday Context. As this area of design draws knowledge from a myriad of academic disciplines, we had readings from a Genevieve Bell, cultural anthropologist, Annemarie Mol, ethnographer and philosopher, an... | ['Interaction Design', 'Design'] |
Observations
Most users said they would use this feature. However, they had different perspectives on the problem it was trying to address. One user said they would use it because they could imagine the feature helping to interrupt the “stream of information” they’re consuming on the platform, and cause them to pause ... | ['Svaixd', 'Thesis', 'UX', 'Facebook', 'Interaction Design'] |
Photo by Dylan Gillis on Unsplash
What is this UX thing that everyone’s talking about?
The first time I came across the term “UX Design” was in a conversation with one of my colleagues. We discussed how we could improve the quality of our work. I talked about design, he talked about user experience – we both talked a... | ['User Experience', 'Learning', 'UX', 'Education', 'Interaction Design'] |
Industrial robots first emerged in the 1950 and 1960, and were usually large, fenced machines people had to be cautious around. Over the years smaller, safer robots came to the front of the stage, leading the fourth industrial revolution, and those are designed to be collaborative robots (cobots). Collaborative robots ... | ['Robotics', 'Communication', 'Innovation', 'Interaction Design', 'Digital'] |
Android based app that uses your BMI to suggest diets and delivers customised food packets daily at your doorstep.
Problem Statement
69% of working bachelors in Indian metropolitan cities face the problem of staple diet due to long working hours and irregular lifestyle.
Most of us are unaware of the food items requi... | ['App Development', 'Ux Blog', 'UX Design', 'Food', 'Interaction Design'] |
“The sign is pointing towards the door! We’re supposed to go in there.”
“I don’t think so — they’re still setting up in there. We’re supposed to go past it.”
Ten minutes into arriving at SXSW, and my group of classmates (friends, now, even fellow soldiers, of the grueling but amazing Human-Computer Interaction Master... | ['Navigation', 'UX', 'SXSW', 'Interaction Design'] |
I wanted to share a journey I have been on. I enrolled in classes at Interaction Design Foundation a few months back to hone my UX skills. I had researched for a month before choosing. I loved the mission statement and the Scandinavian style education model.
We are a movement to create accessible and affordable Ivy Le... | ['UX', 'Design Thinking', 'Interaction Design', 'Job Search Tips'] |
Front page of my new portfolio.
The past year has been a wild ride. I got engaged, had all of my possessions stolen, moved to Los Angeles, and tried a million and 10 things to solve the digestive issues I’d been suffering from (shout-out to UCLA for the amazing help they’ve given me!).
I also tried a lot of new thing... | ['JavaScript', 'CSS', 'Lottie', 'Animation And Design', 'Interaction Design'] |
Overall
When designing a web interface for your product or service consider the following:
Design to appeal to your specific audience (e.i.:an attractive physical appearance, an easy-to-use product, a functional and well performing interface, and to meet their needs); Prevent unnecessary annoyance, use smart defaults... | ['User Interface', 'Ui Ux Design', 'Web Design', 'User Research', 'Interaction Design'] |
But then, we took things further. The students analyzed their data to identify a challenge faced by each company and developed an approach to solving that problem. One of the teams was embedded in Bergens Tidene, for example, and worked closely with editors, journalists, and other newsroom staff. Though their research,... | ['International', 'Fulbright', 'Teaching', 'Education', 'Interaction Design'] |
For Tempo-Team, a Dutch HR website with 300.000 active users, I am continuously improving the UX for matching users with the jobs we offer, based on profile data.
current situation
finding the right job isn’t easy
Despite the fact the website knows a lot about the users, it doesn’t yet represent this on the relevant... | ['Recommendation System', 'Smart Matching Algorithm', 'Human Centred Design', 'UX', 'Interaction Design'] |
So, honestly at first i was quite skeptical coming in to this class because these are some design disciplines that are not as well known as the conservative ones. Usually when you think of design, you think of fashion design, you think of interior design but you never think of interaction or communication design. this ... | ['Interaction Design'] |
The Experience and the User Experience
This week’s topic addressed what it means to design with the user experience in mind. In the book “Subject to Change: Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World: Adaptive Path on Design,” Merholz et al. (2008) discuss why experience is the product. They begin with ... | ['User Experience', 'Interaction Design', 'Design'] |
Interaction has been seen as a quality novel and unique to new media art. A lot of the time, though, it feels more reactive than interactive. Sure, it might persuade us to give it a certain kind of input, but I still feel that the human has the power over it. In other words, I don’t feel that the machine is affecting u... | ['Interaction', 'Interaction Design'] |
Do. Feel. Know.
This article covers the design brief for this particular project and how our group approached it
“A designer’s job isn’t knowing the solution to a problem, their job is to know how to look for a solution.” — Jose Torre.
Week 3 started with a brief introduction to Interaction Design. The class was tau... | ['Design Thinking', 'Design Process', 'Design Education', 'Design', 'Interaction Design'] |
Why study in IDF?
I know that a good education in the design field can be quite expensive and/or not accessible at all depending on the country you are living in. And that is the main point of Interaction Design Foundation (IDF), according to their own website, the goal is “to raise the level of global design educatio... | ['Idf', 'Course', 'UX', 'Design Course', 'Interaction Design'] |
Products need iteration on a regular basis to be able to meet changing user needs and meet business goals. After careful competitor analysis it was identified:
— Competitors are utilising different business model: in-app purchases. Such business model has got the advantage of attracting and keeping the user.
— Majori... | ['Information Architecture', 'User Experience', 'Case Study', 'UX', 'Interaction Design'] |
Music has been an important aspect of design for a very long time. Creativity, being one of the critical parts of design, also gets affected by music that a creative person listens to.
“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they did... | ['Music', 'Communication Design', 'Design', 'Interaction Design', 'Product Design'] |
As the healthcare project progress, I started to doubt my interview questions.
Whether if they are hitting the right direction or just some generic questions?
Here I am reading how others write theirs:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/mp/gathering-demographic-information-from-surveys/
IDEO Research, lots of good survey... | ['Healthcare Design', 'UX Research', 'Asthma', 'Aini', 'Interaction Design'] |
The focus of user experience is simple — to make our users feel satisfied with the effectiveness of the product or service they are using. This might be making them feel more productive, more motivated, happier, efficient, confident, or any other specific feeling that they may associate the product or service based on ... | ['User Experience', 'User Centered Design', 'User Experience Design', 'Interaction Design'] |
Yuan Chen | School of Visual Arts, United States
I was born and raised in Shanghai and see my practice as having deep roots in literature and my diverse cultural background. I have an innate curiosity about the human condition, which leads me to seek the most pragmatic and empathic solution to every problem.
Currentl... | ['Alexa', 'Inclusive Design', 'Amazon', 'Ixda', 'Interaction Design'] |
Understand and Empathize
Image Source: Thrive Global
Research: In this phase: I conduct secondary research to better understand the problem space. The research helps me recognize the cause and impact of the problem. The measures taken to solve the problem and why are they inadequate.
Understand the Users: This phase... | ['UX Design', 'Design Thinking', 'Interaction Design', 'Design'] |
I have to admit that it is not my very first design. Since I have changed my career course and started working with different start-ups I was designing quite a lot, but I would not consider myself as a professional UX designer. Things changed and I want to tell you a story of gaining self-confidence and getting my firs... | ['UX Design', 'Coursera', 'Interaction Design'] |
Users and Audience
The target audience of this app are young working professionals. These users have a strong preference for mobile-first, fast, and interactive experiences. Printed guide just doesn’t cut it any more.
A key differentiator of this user group is that they are heavy users of streaming services such as N... | ['UI', 'Visual Design', 'UX', 'Interaction Design', 'Product Design'] |
"Firstly, thank you, my friend, Rey, for writing this post — I just support him to finish it."
Because we are all human, then we can't avoid mistakes. This is the reason why constraint was born as a barrier to protect users from performing any mistakes.
So, what exactly is constraint do?
Let's say that it prevents u... | ['Design Process', 'Startup', 'Design', 'UX', 'Interaction Design'] |
Written by Daniel Rosenberg, UX Professor, Designer, Executive and Early Innovator in HCI
I Can’t Electronically Sign My %#$@&^ Tax Return!
Blame the user: me, a UX expert with more than 40 years of experience, who has designed more than 100 successful commercial products and evaluated the inadequate designs of nearl... | ['Human Centered Design', 'UI', 'Usability', 'UX', 'Interaction Design'] |
Thanks for checking out the first installment of our blog’s recurring series, Design x design. Members of the Pinterest design team — designers, writers, researchers and more! — will discuss their backgrounds, hopes, dreams and hot takes on line spacing. For our first installment, Skyler Rodriguez (designer, video prod... | ['Design Education', 'Pinterest', 'Interaction Design', 'Design'] |
Delicious hamburger menus… Bad for me online and real life
When James Archer brought up the decline in engagement for companies who implemented the hamburger menu, I was shocked.
Before reading Why Hamburger Menus Don’t Always Work, I took it that hamburger menus were wildly loved and had universal usability. But boy... | ['Design Thinking', 'Hamburger Menu', 'UI', 'Design', 'Interaction Design'] |
We at Gojek are ardent believers of the fact that design can build or break a business. During the course of building our Super App, we’ve had innumerable proof points and case studies that have helped us believe in the power of design a little more than the previous day. 🎨
Needless to say, when Gojek hires designers... | ['Ixd', 'Interaction Design', 'Design', 'Design Interview', 'Gojek'] |
There’s a demo tomorrow. You’ve just pulled an all-nighter. You’ve been working on these designs for weeks, and you’ve put a lot of effort into every decision that’s been made, to deliver an immensely smooth user experience.
And yet, when you finally start to present your magnificent concept, you find your audience hu... | ['UI', 'Visual Design', 'Design', 'UX Design', 'Interaction Design'] |
Those times that people only interact with their digital products by touches, presses, and gestures are long gone. Technologies such as haptic feedback, sensors, audio & video, text input, camera, etc. have made the experience of interacting with products already much richer and more immersive.
Another technology that... | ['Conversation Design', 'Voice Assistant', 'Prototyping Tools', 'Interaction Design', 'Conversational UI'] |
Getting the right design before designing it right — initial research
Back in 2017 along with a 3rd party research company ING conducted roughly 200 CATI (Computer Assisted Telephone Interviews), a number of focus group studies and in-depth interviews in order to better understand our customers’ attitudes toward mobil... | ['Mobile App Design', 'Design Patterns', 'Design', 'UX', 'Interaction Design'] |
With the start of a new year, you probably made a list of resolutions for each of the coming months, or overall. While resolutions are a great way to define and keep track of your priorities for the coming year, it’s a fact that you need a clear and systematic plan of action.
The UX industry remains it’s ascending pat... | ['New York', 'UX Design', 'Design', 'UX', 'Interaction Design'] |
I also added an additional feel feature as feedback to the user to feel the temperature that the user may want to set it to. The thermostat was a non-programmable one that is, it didn’t automatically sense the temperature and set it, but instead, the user had to do it themselves.
Feedback: My first iteration did not s... | ['User Centered Design', 'UX Design', 'Interaction Design', 'Product Design'] |
The Solution
Enter stage-right, the virtual environment. Here is the primary question I hope to address:
How might we use this technology to innovate design research best practices?
First, before we dive into how testing in VR can help I’d like to make clear that definitely not advocating for the complete replacemen... | ['Design', 'Virtual Reality', 'UX', 'Interaction Design', 'Design Research'] |
BASIC INTERACTIONS — PRESSING BUTTONS
Interaction is defined as a dialogue or a relationship between people and objects, systems, spaces, and services. It happens on a daily basis with everything designed around us.
To begin my exploration with Interaction Design, I am starting with the basic type of interaction, the... | ['Interactions', 'Cognitive Science', 'Design', 'Experience Design', 'Interaction Design'] |
A snowy Seattle was the setting for February’s Interaction 19 conference, with 1500 design professionals pouring into town to explore the future of interaction design in the shadow of the Space Needle and the Amazon Spheres. This year’s theme: Design in the Wild.
As an event sponsor, Salesforce had a prominent exhibit... | ['Events', 'Conference', 'Design', 'UX', 'Interaction Design'] |
Talent Acquisition is one of the key challenges in modern organizations. Many organizations face increasingly complex business operations, people-intensive business process or high attrition level, which makes the talent acquisition problem especially cumbersome. Not surprisingly, significant research effort has been d... | ['Human Resources', 'Hiring', 'User Experience', 'Decision Support Systems', 'Interaction Design'] |
Re: Evaluation
How does one define evaluation? What exactly do we evaluate as interaction designers? And with what tools? These questions are important to consider and reflect upon as designers in order to better understand the extent to which our projects meet their intentions.
To answer the first question, “How doe... | ['Evaluation', 'Participatory Design', 'Interaction Design', 'Design'] |
So, what do you do for a living?
Inevitably, you will be at a party or Thanksgiving dinner, entertaining friends of friends, or not-so-distant relatives, and between debates on the proper way to serve cranberries (canned) someone will ask you what you do for a living. You’ll finish your bite and say “interaction desig... | ['Communication', 'User Experience', 'Design', 'Interaction Design', 'Product Design'] |
Visual abstraction
“Visual representations are a fundamental component of human learning and understanding.” — Jock D. Mackinlay
One very important example regarding data visualization can be found when looking back in history. The graphic below depicts a great deal of information without being distracting. Most poig... | ['Data Visualization', 'Seminar', 'Interaction Design', 'Design'] |
Re: Evaluation
What does it mean to evaluate and what are the tools we can use? — A reflection from an interaction design student. Paméla Schmidinger May 6, 2019·2 min read
Evaluation occurs all the time; from the first idea that arises spontaneously to the evaluation of how a project turned out. Through evaluating o... | ['Evaluation', 'Seminar', 'Interaction Design', 'Design'] |
2020 was a banger when it comes to design. I, for once made several achievements including getting my portfolio right (I guess we all know how much of a big deal that is for designers).
This year, I wanted to do something different. So I started a weekly series. I like to call it, ‘52 Weeks of Interaction Design’.
Th... | ['UI', 'Case Study', 'Design', 'UX', 'Interaction Design'] |
Hey everyone! Siddhant here. I hope all of you are safe and doing well. Its hard time out there but there is always a brighter side to the story… We certainly have got time for self-care & personal development(Well! for most of us). This is my first post on Medium. I have always been a creative thinker in my head but c... | ['Design Thinking', 'Begineers', 'Product Design', 'Interaction Design', 'Careers'] |
Solution
On this project I want to improve “Buy Transaction” flow in Welma App. Because I think I can improve in UI also in UX, I try using Design Thinking for design methodology process. Let me share with you step by step, hope you enjoy!
Emphatize
On this step i’m try to know paint point from participant, using us... | ['UI', 'Case Study', 'Apps', 'UX Design', 'Interaction Design'] |
Week 1 — A Palpable Card Fling
Use case
The project manager shall easily select and add tasks to create a new project sprint. The ability to peak a task quickly shall also be present.
Understanding and defining the problem
John, who happens to be a project manager for a valley-based startup called Startup XYZ is ma... | ['Prototyping', 'UI', 'Case Study', 'Design', 'Interaction Design'] |
We all might have come across situations when we are inside the elevator (or lift)and it stops on a floor, and the person standing outside doesn’t enter as the person meant to go in opposite direction. Why do so many people around the world make mistake of pressing the wrong call button?
They need to pick the correct ... | ['User Experience', 'Button Design', 'Interaction Design', 'Design', 'Elevator'] |
Recently I was going through some early implementations of current operating systems to familiarize myself with the evolution of GUI mechanics over time. One particular thing that caught my eye was the “InterfaceBuilder.app” from the NeXTStep OS which was created by NeXT in the late 1980s. It was an era where the human... | ['UI', 'Operating Systems', 'UX', 'Interaction Design', 'Product Design'] |
[This is an ongoing work in progress. Please tell me what I’m missing, particularly in the years 2000–2019 and especially more contributions from women and people of color, who are woefully underrepresented on this list currently.]
In chronological order
Abraham Maslow, A Theory of Human Motivation (1943)
Vannevar B... | ['Hci', 'UX Design', 'Interaction Design', 'Design'] |
Background
Preparing for a UX Design Bootcamp, I was assigned a task to reverse a chosen app to a low-fidelity wireframe. The purpose of this exercise was to discover user flow step-by step and learn how to clearly communicate design ideas.
The app
Skyscanner is a travel-oriented website, visited by around 60 millio... | ['User Flow', 'Interaction Design', 'Wireframing', 'Design'] |
You must have heard of this or you must have said all of it to your best friend, because they are there in your hard times and understand you the best!!! Trynocode Aug 17·1 min read
Same is the case of a UX designer
UX designer or user experience designer is responsible for how a product or website feels.
The main a... | ['UX Design', 'UI', 'Interaction Design', 'Design'] |
Page 1 of my UI/UX Notebook with one of Steve Jobs’s famous life hacks.
Backgrounds and stuff.
It felt like an internship, the beginning. There’s this guy who was very happy to share his knowledge, the colorful set-up that exudes their patented Googlyness, and me, the newbie student that thought, hey maybe I can try ... | ['Uxdesign', 'Design', 'Google Ux Certificate', 'Uxcareer', 'Interaction Design'] |
Challenge: To create a Fitness mobile Application
Role: UX Design (User Research, Interaction Design, Visual Design)
Research
Every person is different, their diets, their daily routines, metabolic rates, sleep patterns vary greatly. This makes the task more challenging. So I set out to uncover the needs and frustra... | ['User Research', 'UX Design', 'Interaction Design'] |
Generators & Optimizers
The newest and arguably most unsettling capability are those that output new things. It’s also the oddball category in this writeup that is not just about one kind of technology. These algorithms use some of the underpinnings of clusterers, classifiers, and regressors (and other things) to help... | ['Machine Learning', 'Patterns', 'The Basics', 'Artificial Intelligence', 'Interaction Design'] |
A TV (45'’ Samsung) was connected to the laptop running the driving simulation program.
The steering wheel (Thrustmaster TMX Racing Wheel for Xbox One) was plugged into the same laptop in order to control the driving direction.
A Tablet (iPad Pro) ran the proto.io prototype that the participants performed specific ta... | ['User Testing', 'Vehicles', 'Design', 'UX', 'Interaction Design'] |
A snowy Monday kicked off at the University of Washington’s Alder Hall with a brief welcome from Michael Smith, Director of UW’s MHCI+D program. Isabelle Sperano also let the group know about the IxDA Medium publication, which houses the resulting discourse from previous workshops. Keep an eye on this page for updates ... | ['Computing Education', 'Design Education', 'Ixda', 'Education', 'Interaction Design'] |
Developing empathy.
The responses from our survey gave us some important insights, such as:
Half of all respondents were looking for a particular breed when they were searching for their dog 65% of dog owners surveyed had adopted their dogs from a shelter.
I conducted street interviews, as well as context and expert... | ['Design Thinking', 'Dogs', 'User Experience', 'Case Study', 'Interaction Design'] |
Session - 4
It was the wrap up session for interaction design. So the class started with greetings after that students were asking questions regarding Interaction design as it was the last session so students were clearing their queries regarding this discipline. During this discussion we came to know how things are i... | ['Interaction Designer', 'Technology', 'Innovation', 'Interaction Design', 'Product Design'] |
This one is for all the nerds and fanchildren (fanpersons?) out there. Our news feeds and searches are literally filled with ongoing series, and the net is dark and full of spoilers! Unless you’re Doctor Strange and you actively seek out 14,000,605 potential spoilers — you’d agree with me if I said we need a spoiler fi... | ['Pop Culture', 'Internet', 'Spoilers', 'Design', 'Interaction Design'] |
Presenting our official Product Trailer for History Adventures, World of Characters
The innovative product features highlighted in this trailer include:
Immersive 3D Environments
Animated, Interactive Infographics
Enhanced Original Historical Documents
Choose Your Own Adventure Experience
Animated Illustrations &... | ['History', 'Product', 'Technology', 'Education', 'Interaction Design'] |
The market in terms of VR creation tools is constantly expanding with more and more valuable offers and it may be difficult to understand different products to find which one would suite your project the best. To illustrate this point we will compare two looking alike products that you can use to create interactions fo... | ['VR', 'Vr Development', 'Unity3d', 'Virtual Reality', 'Interaction Design'] |
Local leaders @ Interaction 20
Last week in Milan, I attended my 8th Interaction conference. If I could count Boulder as my first, then Milan would be by 9th, but it was a partial attendance because I was following tweets and updates remotely from my loft in London. The coverage was so amazing that I was able to sketc... | ['User Experience', 'Usability', 'UX', 'Interaction Design', 'Product Design'] |
Today, we looked at Bruder Klaus Field Chapel, designed by Peter Zumthor as case study to validate the framework we are developing.
To recap, Yiwei started with a more in-depth framework of our initial discussion.
Yiwei brought this to the meeting for us to look at.
After attempting to map the chapel case study on o... | ['Architecture', 'Design Process', 'Interaction Design'] |
Problem Setting
Major Digital Assets Trading Firms in India are now going to place kiosks across the metropolitan cities. Anyone can put in coins (one rupee, two rupee, five rupee or even ten rupee coins) and get equivalent cryptocoins in their respective Crypto Trading Mobile application .
This study is an attempt t... | ['Case Study', 'Cryptocurrency', 'UX', 'Interaction Design', 'Product Design'] |
Booking Flow
The booking flow on Bumblebee would be broken up into minute small decision points as to most current airline booking experience. Travelers will be prompted via screen step by step to provide details as to where they would wish to go, the amount of travelers they are reserving for, when they are looking t... | ['Airlines', 'Customer Experience', 'Branding', 'UX Design', 'Interaction Design'] |
I invented “Gremlin!” as a marketing gimmick.
I run phone larps: they usually run about sixty-something minutes and cost forty-something dollars. Then I asked why people weren’t playing them. The usual answers: people didn’t have the time or the money. While there are reasons to be skeptical of both, I decided to take... | ['Immersive Theatre', 'Interactive Storytelling', 'Gremlins', 'Larp', 'Interaction Design'] |
This mini-article is part 2 of a 52-part series — 52 Weeks of Interaction Design by Saleh Riaz. The series is meant to be a personal project. Read more about it in the introductory article or find all interactions here.
Designing an unconventional way of viewing your mobile wallet
Week 2— A Veristic Swipe
Use case
... | ['Prototyping', 'UI', 'Case Study', 'Design', 'Interaction Design'] |
The project is a B2B mobile marketing super app that enables companies to create and execute direct marketing campaigns and interactive services. More exactly, it enables companies to create mobile marketing campaigns (one-way and two-way interactions), multi-channel oriented solution covering messaging (SMS/MMS/USSD) ... | ['B2b Marketing', 'Super Apps', 'UX Design', 'UX Research', 'Interaction Design'] |
Design exercise solutions that land offers
You’ve passed the phone screen and have been asked to do the take home design exercise. What’s next? In addition to the approach, I’ll share my process with an in-depth example that landed me a great offer at a major consulting company. I’m also including lessons learned from... | ['UX', 'UX Design', 'Design Exercise', 'Interaction Design', 'Product Design'] |
“Interaction Design is the creation of a dialogue between a person and a product, system, or service. This dialogue is both physical and emotional in nature and is manifested in the interplay between form, functions, and technology as experienced over time” - John Kolko
As the name indicates, it is the interaction/com... | ['UI', 'Visual Design', 'User Experience', 'UX', 'Interaction Design'] |
Empathetic vs. Sympathetic vs. Empathic: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/empathetic/
*being a non-native English speaker, this article may have language mistakes.
I read these days a research paper called “A concept analysis of empathy” that, actually, made me write this article. In the last couple of years, in differ... | ['User Experience', 'Ts', 'UX', 'Interaction Design', 'Product Design'] |
UX Design
Project Summary
Literal is a mobile app that intends to improve the reading habits in teenagers by presenting novels in a text messaging format, rather than in the traditional format of a standard book. The goal of this two-week project was to recommend ways in which Literal could improve the usability of t... | ['User Testing', 'Ux Case Study', 'UX', 'UX Research', 'Interaction Design'] |
Thanks for your detailed feedback Charles, I really appreciate your points!
“Development is not a limitation or a constraint as implied by the first question.” I’m not implying that development is a limitation! I’m saying that designers should take into consideration this “contributing factor”. In my experience, some ... | ['Collaboration', 'Web Design', 'UX Design', 'Interaction Design', 'Product Design'] |
Affordances
Automatically discoverable and connectable, pause music when removed from the ear. Double tap on them to activate Siri, increase or decrease volume, change tracks etc. The affordances work pretty well except that the AirPods connect to any iPhone in its range. Another use is that it can be used to over hea... | ['Design Critique', 'Design', 'User Centered Design', 'UX Research', 'Interaction Design'] |
Understand the context of use
Start a conversation with your users. Structure your conversation with some questions. Is there a problem you can solve in their everyday lives?
There are several ways of understanding the context of use. There are several ways to collect data. For example, you can jot down notes on a pi... | ['Prototyping', 'Methodology', 'UX', 'Ucd', 'Interaction Design'] |
Designers can no longer live in “design-land.” They must strive to create impact by understanding business needs, helping define success metrics, and working with coworkers in other disciplines to help them visualize their problems, and gather perspectives from outside their purview.
While not related to the conferenc... | ['Design Thinking', 'Design', 'Ixda', 'UX Design', 'Interaction Design'] |
Hi there!
Here at Ironhack’s UX/UI Bootcamp, we were faced with the challenge of designing a new app for Fun People Inc, a fictional educational company specialized in workshop camps, for people who want to take an online version of one of the courses.
To keep things short and sweet, Fun People Inc. needs a way to pr... | ['UX', 'Design Thinking', 'Interaction Design', 'Research'] |
The problem
LinkedIn is one of the most powerful and useful tools used worldwide to connect with professionals, search and apply to jobs. After conducting some secondary research and also 5 interviews and analysing the 40 responses I got to my online survey, I quickly realised that the power of LinkedIn lies on its ne... | ['Design Thinking', 'Design Process', 'Research', 'UX', 'Interaction Design'] |
Typographic
Typography is the part I care the most. I spend a lot of time to polish every fine detail of Typography based on the web standard. To do this, I research a lot on what to do or not to do in the two design system guidelines, Atlassian design and Material design system. Thanks for sharing valuable informatio... | ['UI', 'Web Design', 'Design', 'UX', 'Interaction Design'] |
The process of creating a product of any type or nature, is very challenging, from the inception all the way to delivering it to the mass, the team in charge goes through many stages and conducting countless tests to ensure the product is flawless and user friendly, and to achieve such result, they need to follow certa... | ['Team', 'Interaction Design', 'Design'] |
So it was with a slightly apprehensive heart that I turned up on Thursday morning. On Wednesday evening, I had told my classmates that if I didn’t see them in school on Thursday, that’s a good thing. But even though I turned up at school, it was actually a wonderful chat I had with S.
It started with my asking if she ... | ['Interaction Design', 'UX Design', 'Design', 'Ciid', 'Aging'] |
Why understanding and designing for context is critical to thriving in a new design system.
I had the unique opportunity to be one of two interns at Collective Health, San Francisco. If you haven’t heard of Collective Health, they are a technology company harnessing the power of the employee-driven healthcare economy.... | ['Healthcare', 'Interaction Design', 'Design', 'Experience Design', 'Product Design'] |
Alexia also worked with the “Whatevers” target group, but came up with a totally different concept.
A large majority of the young population in Estonia are part of a family package for the mobile data amongst other things. Around the age of 18, important changes start to take place — they have to discover what they wa... | ['User Experience', 'Customer Service', 'Interaction Design', 'Service Design'] |
We are at a point as a craftsmanship, that we are exceeding more than ever before the boundaries of design and what it means in all directions. We are called to design education, businesses, government services, algorithms and we should because we put people in the epicentre. Yet, it is most uncomfortable.
Here are my... | ['Design Thinking', 'Design Process', 'Innovation', 'Interaction Design', 'Design Methods'] |
Contemporary digital things are more like fluid assemblages than stable objects. They are composed of a variety of components and connections, including resources provided by various platforms and other kinds of infrastructure. They change over time and in response to activities and other inputs they are configured to ... | ['Fluid Assemblages', 'Design Education', 'Design', 'Interaction Design', 'Design Theory'] |
The Proto-Sketching Method ✢
Thursday, November 26th
Yesterday our group was split between the textile workshop and the atelier where we continued to work on our concept/prototype. Those of us who were not in the workshop began the day with a quick refresher of the discussion from the previous evening. We had conside... | ['Embodied Interaction', 'Interaction Design'] |
As temperatures continue to drop and half the globe gets ready for winter, designers worldwide are still heating the internet with their mobile interaction design work. This month we explore some retail, finance, and delivery app concepts that visually rethink the “add to cart” feature and more.
1.Money Transfer for B... | ['Ui Animation', 'UI Design', 'Animation', 'Design', 'Interaction Design'] |
Understanding Little Worlds
The company, a small toy shop, describes itself as local, community-driven and customer service-based. They are passionate about their heritage and quality products.
As they saw the increase of e-commerce popularity and its benefits, they wanted to expand their business online. And wanted ... | ['Website', 'User Experience', 'Website Design', 'Toys', 'Interaction Design'] |
& All this because of FOMO, fear of missing out.
People shared memes from a private account with a couple of emojis ( Imma DED! | This is so you! | We be like! | 😁 😂 🤣 😃 😄 😅 😆) with their friends who were likely intrigued and wanted to know what it was & tapped that follow button. This wasn’t a secret for long ... | ['Memes', 'Ui Ux Design', 'Instagram', 'Interaction Design', 'Product Design'] |
TWO ROADS DIVERGED IN A WOOD
After sketching out some ideas we had two flows for two different approaches we wanted to test. So we quickly built an invision prototype with the two flows and headed to a local college to test them.
Initially we thought we wanted to get the kinks out first on local English speakers beca... | ['Human Centered Design', 'Mobile Apps', 'Case Study', 'UX', 'Interaction Design'] |
After going through my storyboards and user flows, I decided on three main touch points important in the user’s interaction: Main Ordering Screen, Text Convo after ordering pickup, and Text Convo after ordering delivery.
I chose the text convos to be key screens to interact with because they show the flow after orderi... | ['UX Design', 'Process', 'Design Exercise', 'Interaction Design'] |
1. The Strategy level
If I want to run a steakhouse, I should be clear of what my business goal is, and this is also what’s included in the strategy level. Of course I’d like to get revenue from my business, but except this, I also should be aware of who my target users are, aka who I want to serve. On the other side,... | ['Design Process', 'User Experience Design', 'Interaction Design', 'UX Design', 'Experience Design'] |
My personal journey into user experience design
I’ve been working as a user experience designer for three years at Pearson Education Ltd, a leading learning company that puts learners at the heart of everything it does. I’d previously worked in the company in a digital project management role overseeing the building o... | ['UX', 'Visual Perception', 'Interaction Design'] |
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