How would you describe your user experience design philosophy in one sentence?
The best thing about users is they eventually all die. Users come to a design with certain expectations, until they don’t anymore.
Good design is invisible. If a design draws focus to itself, instead of the users’ objective, it is not a good design.
Risk averse companies produce crap.
Design is not immune to Sturgeon’s Law. Sturgeon’s Law: 99% of everything is crap. How do you prevent your design from being in that 99%?
What qualities do the best UX professionals have?
Dan SafferThe ability to quickly see to the actual problem, not just the issues that result from that problem.The ability to visualize that problem.The ability to generate multiple solutions to the problem, then discuss the pros and cons of each.The a…
How to best represent a ToggleButton (representing on/off) with the ability to be locked
I’m designing a ToggleButton control that has the ability to be in a locked state in which user interaction will not be able to further toggle the control. In general I would like the button to appear somewhat natural in the …
How to best represent a ToggleButton (representing on/off) with the ability to be locked
I’m designing a ToggleButton control that has the ability to be in a locked state in which user interaction will not be able to further toggle the control. In general I would like the button to appear somewhat natural in the …
What is the best font for extremely limited space, i.e. will fit the most READABLE text in the smallest space?
I often have very limited space when creating reports and dashboards for users. I usually use Arial, or Arial Narrow, but UI isn’t my area of expertise, so I want to know, is there an optimal font for fitting the most readabl…
What is the best color combination for on screen reading?
I work at an airline as a pilot and I am involved in the “paperless” project which aims to have no more paper in the cockpit – all the data should be accessible from tablet devices.
We have a lot to read during flights (chec…
What is the difference between information architecture and user experience design?
Information Architecture is a component of User Experience Design. IA is focused on the organization and “findability” of content which are important elements of designing the overall user experience.
Save icon, is the floppy disk icon dead?
This Twitter post sparked me to ask the question:
totally! RT @damienguard: Dear UI
designers everywhere. Stop using
floppy disk icons for save. Too many
people have no idea what it is now.
So, is the floppy dis…
Save icon, is the floppy disk icon dead?
This Twitter post sparked me to ask the question:
totally! RT @damienguard: Dear UI
designers everywhere. Stop using
floppy disk icons for save. Too many
people have no idea what it is now.
So, is the floppy dis…
friendly version of date formats
The users of my application have the ability to choose their prefered date format between:
dd/mm/yyyy
mm/dd/yyyy
yyyy-mm-dd
The 1st one (which has the Java pattern dd/MM/yyyy) produces 31/12/2011.
I’ve decided that a mor…