It’s no surprise that Smashing Magazine chose one of the San Francisco’s most beautiful and noted locales, the Palace of Fine Arts, to hold one of its conferences this year. Smashing Conference San Francisco 2017 was full of amazing speakers and concepts that could benefit all UX designers. Doug Collins has five of the key trends that emerged from the conference.
As designers, we know that our decisions have a real impact on how people use products. On the downside, poor design decisions have the potential to cause annoyance, cost users a bit of cash, or even have disastrous results. But what about the intent behind designs? Ben Tollady shares how we can recognise (and avoid) deceitful design practices.
It’s World Usability Day, and to celebrate, the folks from Optimal Workshop have pulled together the ultimate UX and Marketing Toolkit, worth $30,000.
Here’s how this amazing collection of tools could be yours.
A content audit isn’t something you’re going to want to tackle. But you can’t undertake a redesign of a content-heavy site without it.
Donna Spencer shows you how to conduct a Content Audit in this sketch video.
Hawk reviews the online course “How to Develop an Information Architecture using Card Sorting” by Joji Mori and finds herself pleasantly surprised (with a couple of caveats).
Today I had the pleasure of hosting Everett McKay in our Ask the UXperts chatroom, talking about UI for non-designers.
Here is the transcript of the session.
Ask the UXperts is a series of free online text-based chat sessions. It is One Hour. One Expert. All your Questions Answered.
Next in our series of “Ask the UXperts” sessions we’ll be chatting about UI for non-designers with Everett McKay, Principal of UX Design Booth and author of “UI Is Communication”.
Usability Testing is a vital part of the Information Architecture process.
This excerpt from “A Practical Guide to Information Architecture” will help you understand when to test, how testing works, what to prepare, and how to interpret your results.
“Ask the UXperts” is a free chat-based session featuring a different expert each time. It is One Hour. One Expert. All your Questions Answered.
In yesterday’s session we “talked” to Donna Spencer about Information Architecture.
Ask the UXperts is a series of free online text-based chat sessions, each running for approximately an hour.
In our third session in as many weeks we will be talking information architecture with Donna Spencer.