What do you want in a home page?
I’m putting together some designs for a Chrome Extension that would basically serve as a home page every time you open a new tab. I’ve seen some out there, but frankly they are terrible. I want one...
View ArticleThe Design Parallax
Parallax. It may be an unfamiliar term to many. It’s defined as the apparent displacement of an observed object due to a change in the position of the observer. For example, a driver may look at a...
View ArticleHow UX is like Foreign Language
I recently took some time to travel in a couple non-English speaking countries. Many places had English subtexts, some had text that was slightly decipherable, and others had completely indecipherable...
View ArticleDesign Like An Egyptian
This is a response article to Alexander Dawson’s hierarchy of website users’ needs in his Six Revisions article Human Behavior Theories That Can be Applied to Web Design. His is an adaptation of...
View ArticleUsability Testing, Why?
Testing? Ew, gross. That sounds like something I loathed during my school years. No, no, this is something else. Usability testing is putting designs up against real users to see how they perform....
View Article3D Movies and UX Design
3D Movies were a huge trend in 2010. A few movies got it right, but most screwed up royally. A lot of them did it post-production just to have 3D and it served no purpose other than to say it was 3D....
View ArticleLombardi Trophy of Design
The NFL playoffs start this weekend and I'm very excited. My Atlanta Falcons are the #1 seed in the NFC and I just got NFL Network this week so I'm excited about the awesome coverage they do. Today...
View ArticleWhat’s Your “Single”?
In the music industry, singles are very important. They are less important for established bands and groups, but are enormously important to brand new and debuting artists. Singles are windows into the...
View ArticlePut A Foot, Any Foot, Forward
Have you ever had a project that is too big or outside your comfort zone and you have no idea where to start? I have no idea where you start either, but start somewhere. The point is that it doesn’t...
View ArticleCognitive Models: Thinking Ahead
Today let’s talk about cognitive models. That’s really a fancy term for how someone thinks about something. It’s taking an action or goal and creating a model in your brain about how you would perform...
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