Category Archives for User Experience Design
User Experience Design and Information Architecture – Centered and Bounded Sets
The centered set approach is like gathering cats rather than herding cattle. The center is the pail of milk that draws the cats. This morning I finally checked Phyllis Tickle’s The Great Emergence off of my reading list. I consumed … Continue reading
The Umbrella of UX
There was an interesting question posted to the IxDA mailing list yesterday: Can we say that Usability, User centered design, Information Architecture and interaction design fall under the umbrella of User experience design? I offered a perspective on Rohit’s question. … Continue reading
There Is No Such Thing As Jesse James Garrett
I was wrong. The discipline of information architecture and the role of the information architect will always be defined in conjunction with one another. As long as you have information architects, what they do will always be information architecture. Seems … Continue reading
Kai Turner on The Future Of Information Architecture
I’m still working my way through
Beautiful Things "Work" Better, Except Maybe When We're Talking About UX Deliverables
Seems to me there”s some sort of meta-critique that can be made (or perhaps has already been made) regarding what Norman observes about attractive things being functionally superior to ugly things, and the conflicting idea in some UX circles that … Continue reading
Bill Higgins, The Uncanny Valley and… Wallace Stevens?
Not sure how I missed this posting by Bill Higgins about the design of robots and what it could teach us about UX design for the web back in “07 but many thanks to my former student Ryan Cannon for … Continue reading