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Secondary and Primary user Actions
One quick and easy way of making any application or website more usable is to identify primary actions and secondary actions. Primary actions are the most frequently used that guide the user along an...
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Dyson Air Blade & Thorough Design
When I was in college many moons ago, our prof would take us to everyday machines like copy machines, vending machines, elevators, etc. for an ad-hoc design evaluation. Every time I see one of those...
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AVG’s new Windows 8 style UI (formerly known as Metro).
AVG is an anti-virus software. In anticipation of the upcoming Windows 8, they’ve just modernized their UI to look like Windows 8 style UI – what was formerly known as Metro. It used to look like...
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The Road to Hell is Paved with Data Visualization
There is a lot of data out there today. Spreadsheets upon spreadsheets of data. Presenting this in a meaningful form has, until recently, been the domain of bar charts and line graphs (think MS Excel)....
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Top 5 ways of dealing with difficult clients
Top 5 ways of dealing with difficult clients We’ve all had to deal with difficult clients at one time or another. Sometimes we inherit difficult clients, sometimes we create them, and other times they...
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Are You Design-Driven? Probably Not.
The phrase “design-driven” seems to be used a lot these days. From design blogs to books on building corporate culture to marketing campaigns, everyone either thinks they are “design-driven” or need to...
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Communicating Complex Information
I was recently invited to speak at the Second Annual Symposium on Communicating Complex Information (SCCI). The goals of the conference, sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM)...
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The Off-Season
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...
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One Rule of UX Consulting
There is a rule in consulting that many professionals don’t seem to understand (or want to believe). This rule applies regardless of your specialty. It doesn’t matter whether you call yourself a UX...
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