Christina Wodtke, Jared Spool, Kontra and 10 others...

Lately a lot of senior folks seem to be railing on user-centered design. Now, I thought UCD was the idea of putting the users in the center of the design choices. To do that,...

Acuity Corp, William Evans, Tim Wright and 23 others...

Hi all, I work in-house as an interaction designer in a technical industry. I am a senior employee. The company has a massive customer base, and lack of design is their core problem. ...

Shaun Bergmann, Loren Baxter, mark schraad and 5 others...

In the initial stages of brainstorming design, specifically when it comes to reactive changes to the interface, I'm commonly sketching boxes and buttons on graph paper or a white board. Then I started thinking...

Alan Wexelblat, Will Evans, JimH and 2 others...

I know, a really general request, but here goes: An assertion was made to me that teens (specifically both genders age 12-18) are not adopting iPhones because they're used to being able to text...

David Malouf, Michele Marut, David Shaw and 13 others...

*The Biggest Announcement EVER on this blog -- From industry to academia* Yup, I'm leaving Motorola as of the middle of December and starting off the new year as a Professor of...

Andrei Herasimchuk, Itamar Medeiros, FoongYeen Chan and 10 others...

I get a lot of questions about design education material, books and recommendations via private email. I've been meaning to put together a reference post on Design by Fire, but constantly find...

David Farkas, Itamar Medeiros, Danny Hope and 3 others...

I do a lot of work developing interfaces that provide similar material in both standard browsers and mobile devices. A lot of the data lends itself to lists such as dates, events, and what...

Benjamin Ho, Tim Wright, Jared Spool and 8 others...

Hi All, We're having our annual user conference very soon and we're looking to have an interactive component to our presentation at the end where our users are asked to do something. As for...

Sachin, I have a strong leaning regarding my position on sitemaps which I will not get into. My focus rather will be on the placement of your sections. 'Upfront' and...

smartest way for a person to know where each of your website's pages are locate. With the help of a sitemap a user does not need to go around your website trying...