Website Localization: 3 Basic Principles
Learn how to design your website for users from any language, any culture, anywhere. You can “localize” a website using just three principles of web design. (Full article available in English and Español)
View ArticleEthnographic Research: Business Value
Knowing why people act, feel, think, experience, and choose the way they do gives us rich cultural insights to inform design or to build meaningful, empathetic user experiences.
View ArticleTwinlist: A Multi-Step Interface to Reconcile Medication Lists
Novel spatial layout and multi-step animation help medical staff compare two lists of medications and rapidly select the drugs for a reconciled list, reducing errors.
View ArticleVisualizing Tax Returns: Showing the Impact in Design
The right information visualizations can help customers confused about their tax refunds and help them make the right decision for their finances.
View ArticleDesign for Innovation (Book Review)
A review of 101 Design Methods: A Structured Approach for Driving Innovation in Your Organization by Vijay Kumar. A guidebook about innovation and design thinking techniques.
View ArticleFlexible Foundations: Preparing Design Students for a Changing Field
To prepare students for a user experience career, design programs should focus on teaching flexibility, experimentation, critical thinking, and effective communication.
View ArticleDesign at Scale: Building a Design Community
If you want your design patterns to be effective, you need a community of designers and researchers to contribute to them.
View ArticleReality Check: High Fidelity Content Enhances the Design Process
New tools for high fidelity prototypes make it critical to test with equally polished and realistic content.
View ArticleDesigning Future-Friendly Content: Modeling Structure for Every User Interface
Designing future-friendly content upfront provides a solid foundation for useful content on all devices, publishing platforms, and content outlets yet to come.
View ArticleSesame Street, Letter Blocks, and Augmented Reality: Increasing Engagement...
Lessons learned designing non-linear play experiences for a hybrid of classic letter blocks and character-driven tablet content.
View ArticleThe Quest for the Better Me: Helping You Be, Do, Feel, and Look Better
Help people be, do, feel, and look better to create products that are designed to win both the hearts and minds of their customers
View ArticleEffective and Efficient: Conducting UX and Design Reviews
Lead effective and efficient design reviews in your organization. This method consists of three targeted rounds of reviews.
View ArticleThinking Outside the Browse and Search Box: Big Data as a Complement to...
Use big data and analytics to enhance traditional static navigation and intelligently anticipate the type of content that your users are trying to reach.
View ArticleThe User Experience of Libraries: Serving The Common Good
Libraries are increasingly seeking UX expertise to help them better serve the public.
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