Insights in simplicity from the legendary industrial designer who ‘put the world in a briefcase’ when he created the world’s first folding laptop computer.
Category: UX
User Experience (UX) is a broad term used to explain all aspects of a person’s experience with a system including its interface, graphics, industrial design, physical interaction, and the manual.
This blog has a focus on: User Research, Content Strategy and Collaboration.
Gerry McGovern on the interplay between aesthetics and function
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Success via Failure
ZURB on why prototyping is a way to discover errors in your thinking
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Boyd’s Law of Iteration
Speed of iteration beats the quality of iteration.
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Tufte on the primacy of content
Content must always be actively designed and governed to meet user needs
Cull clutter and confusion to reveal signal and truth.
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Customer vs. Content
A reminder to design for the jobs to be done.
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London UX Bookclub: Design is a Job
Mike Monteiro’s thoughts on defining ourselves as designers and ensuring that we’re valued by the people with whom we work.
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Simple is usable. Simple is complicated.
Steve Jobs on how achieving simplicity in design is a complex process fraught with effort and difficulties
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Emotional UX: Google Search Calculator
A wonderful example of a new and novel feature generating a unexpected, but pleasant, emotional response during a simple experience with Google Search. Further Reading Beautiful Google Search tips and tricks page.