Maximize ROI: Turn Beginners into Experts

Maximize ROI: Turn Beginners into Experts

Turning beginners into experts is a valuable and important transition for business to facilitate. The more versed a users is in your product the more use and value they will be able to get out of it. The more value…

Back to Basics: Gestalt and Proximity

Back to Basics: Gestalt and Proximity

I had an ah-ha! moment today, one for which my instinct was to immediately chastise myself, and say “duh Lauren”.  But then I took a second thought and reminded myself that while like most users I tend to blame myself…

Form over Function

Form over Function

  In my attempt to order lunch this afternoon I was rendered stupid. One of those moments, where a website literally made me feel like an idiot. Then after a brief smack of my palm on my forehead I decided to…

Infographic Best Practices

Infographic Best Practices

I had the opportunity to help out with an infographic design recently and it gave me to a great opportunity to explore this communication medium in general.  There are some really great examples on Pinterest, and I highly recommend that as a tool for visually browsing…

8 Tips for Quick Research Notes

Whether you are the note-taker, or the researcher reviewing a recording, it is important to find a good short hand for taking notes. It must be quick, but also easily scannable and understandable by other. Below are 8 tips I put…

No New Mail - Updated!

No New Mail – Updated!

I had a  specific experience with Gmail lately that left me craving some character and delight. Now I consider character and delight to  be two very different aspects of user experience design. Delight is the cherry on top of a good…

Digging into Design Details

Interface design is a complicated process. Designs are rarely created in an ah-ha moment so much as they are the result of a process that takes lots of time and thought. Designing interfaces involves lots of analysis, many conversations and…

Is the Save Disk Icon Dead?

Is the Save Disk Icon Dead?

I was recently posed with the question of whether the save disk icon should be removed from software as a majority of software users have never actually used a floppy disk. Not to mention that save these days usually takes…

UX Tidbits - July

UX Tidbits – July

This month I have been getting back into graphic and web design a bit more, and wanted to explore some of the basics. Here are some nice reference articles on the basics of visual and interaction design. Design Links 11…

UX Tidbits – May

I’ve been writing a lot and publishing a little lately as I’ve been working on fine tuning some ideas. In the mean time, I’ve also been reading a lot and decided to start sharing some of the tidbits that I…