Ideation for Everyday Design Challenges
January 15, 2017
Improve your UI design solutions by considering many ideas before settling on any one of them. A solid ideation methodology broadens your idea-generation capacity.
Improve your UI design solutions by considering many ideas before settling on any one of them. A solid ideation methodology broadens your idea-generation capacity.
Help internal audiences empathize with users and buy into your design goals with well-crafted stories that build insight and focus on users and their needs.
Goals, questions, and processes are the 3 building blocks for creating UX-workshop agendas. A 6-step approach integrates them into an agenda.
The winners of our 16th Intranet Design Annual came from diverse industries and relied on a combination of internal resources and external intranet help.
Test your UX knowledge by taking our quiz. All questions and answers are based on articles that we published last year.
Leave your office, already, and go where the users are. There are some common pitfalls, but they can be avoided if you learn from our experience.
No matter which prototyping tools you use, the same tips apply to preparing a user interface prototype for the most effective user research.
Interfaces that temporarily hide the UI elements to emphasize content often increase the interaction cost, cognitive load, and the number of attention switches.
Readers can understand short, simple text content on mobile devices just as well as on computers, but they slow down when reading difficult text on mobile.
Designers are vulnerable to the same cognitive biases as users. The context in which you present a problem can bias your design choices.
What is usability? How, when, and where to improve it? Why should you care? Overview answers basic questions + how to run fast user tests.
The ten most egregious offenses against users. Web design disasters and HTML horrors are legion, though many usability atrocities are less common than they used to be.
Users don't read Web pages, they scan. Highlighting and concise writing improved measured usability 47-58%. Marketese imposed a cognitive burden on users and was disliked.
Eyetracking visualizations show that users often read Web pages in an F-shaped pattern: two horizontal stripes followed by a vertical stripe.
Jakob Nielsen's 10 general principles for interaction design. They are called "heuristics" because they are broad rules of thumb and not specific usability guidelines.
The winners of our 15th Intranet Design Annual impress us with their design prowess, content support, UX research, responsive design, modern visuals, and SharePoint pushed to its limits.
Modern day UX research methods answer a wide range of questions. To know when to use which method, each of 20 methods is mapped across 3 dimensions and over time within a typical product-development process.
How users react to delays in a user interface, whether website or application. The 3 main response time limits are determined by human perceptual abilities.
Elaborate usability tests are a waste of resources. The best results come from testing no more than 5 users and running as many small tests as you can afford.
What appears at the top of the page vs. what’s hidden will always influence the user experience—regardless of screen size.