Sometimes you notice simple things which can greatly enhance your user experience.
While using Windows if you try to close a document after making some changes to it the dialog box that appears shows a error message of this kind:
You’ve to read the whole message to be able to answer. Seems normal, right?
Now notice the same [...]
Usually in iPhone’s User Interface, if you need to move an application from one screen to another you’ve to drag it across. Let’s say you’ve 4 Screens in your iPhone, to move an application from 1st Screen to the 4th Screen is a pain, you’ve to drag it across all the screens in between.
It’s just [...]
Good user interfaces are crucial for good user experience. It doesn’t matter how good a technology is — if we, designers, don’t manage to make user interface as intuitive and attractive as possible, the technology will hardly reach a breakthrough. To gain the interest in a new product or technology, users need to understand its advantages [...]
For those of us who see colors just fine, it is hard to imagine what those with color blindness are seeing. Luckily humans are smart and have created technology like the Color Blind Web Page Filter.
This post also uses same filter to demonstrate the different types of colorblindness, allows you to view what your site looks like [...]
Delivering differentiated services that lead to remarkable experiences requires a thorough understanding of your customers.
The initial question is: Who is your customer?. This is not always obvious since in any buying situation various actors can and will influence the buying decision and they will also be – either active or passive – experiencing a [...]
User centered design is receiving increasing attention in recent years. Various methods and tools are used within organizations to improve the understanding of user and task requirements, support the iteration of design and evaluation. Identifying the most important and most used user centered design methods was the goal of the study.
A survey done with more [...]
Japanese grocery stores had a problem. They are much smaller than their US counterparts and therefore don’t have room to waste. Watermelons, big and round, wasted a lot of space. So some Japanese farmers took a different approach…
Bryce Glass has created an excellent diagram on user experience.
This was a fun diagram to work on. Frank Spillers, of Experience Dynamics saw my earlier Flickr diagrams and wanted to commission something similar with some general usability and user experience concepts.
The idea was to emphasize the readability and approachability of the subject matter (keep it [...]
Usability is a buzz thing.. and there are tons of terms related to it which are often used either in the conversations or while designing the system or interface. A simple post will be too small to have that all. So I created a separate page for it wherein you can see a descriptive definition [...]
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