UX tools are varied, numerous, and are invaluable to designing powerful, functional and easy-to-use software. So, there must be a lot of different kinds of these UX tools for the many faces of interactive digital systems, right?
Reviewing the New Gmail UX
Everyone loves Gmail, and there’s a reason for that. Over the past decade, Google has gone from being a slightly novel search engine alternative to Yahoo, to becoming one of the biggest producers of SaaS and free solutions around. Even Microsoft’s worried about Google, with their browser, mobile OS and extensive web services, totally free…
How to Find the Best UX Specialist for Your Business
In the world of software or service design, with the predominance of the digital age, you’re probably going to find yourself in need of a UX specialist to ensure optimal effectiveness and usability. A UX specialist can make all the difference in a project. While your artists and programmers are a crack team, they need…
Best UI Books You Must Read
I’ve been getting a lot of requests lately to talk about more books, especially UI books, which I touched on partially once before. It brings joy to my heart to see people so interested once more in literature as a solid and viable source of learning and research in an age of Wikipedia articles being…
Ecommerce UX Best Practices
E-commerce UX. Yeah, I know, I hear the audible sigh when I say it, too, but it’s something that needs to be addressed. The way we handle e-commerce at the moment stands to improve, in a lot of ways. E-commerce encompasses a multitude of things, beyond business financial exchanges, and beyond customer/merchant online systems.
UX Navigation Patterns That Work
UX navigation patterns are essential. There are two sides to this coin and two meanings to the definition of a navigation pattern. Don’t worry, it’s not that confusing, and one feeds into the other in a very obvious and logical sense. We’ll be focusing more on designed navigation patterns for UX designers to implement, but…
3 User Interface Books Worth Reading
I have finally gotten the jump on myself and thwarted my forgetfulness. As I was about the books this week, I remembered to watch for inspiration as to what topic to recommend books for this time. I was in luck. As I left the science fiction section, I happened upon a stand of user interface…