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Lessons Learned Designing a Windows 8 App

Microsoft’s new design language, Metro, presents interaction designers with a ton of new challenges and opportunities. Follow along as graduate students Valentina and Christinaredesign an …

Aug 2012

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Design for Readability – a Content Strategy

Have we designed ourselves into a box? Content Strategist Matt Herron explains the evolution of the “standard” content display model as well as what designers …

Jul 2012

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Who killed the inactive button state? User experience?

Inactive buttons used to be a popular form control, but all that’s changed in recent years. Chuck McQuilkin examines a handful of modern forms to dissect …

Jun 2012

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Designing the Team Experience

The same, valuable principles that inform our client work apply equally well to our professional relationships. After all: our colleagues are people, too! Jessica Vallance explores …

Jun 2012

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Women On Top: Inappropriate Dropdowns

What’s the best order for the options in your dropdown? Kate Roberts shares her design process, the results of her usability tests, and tips you …

Jun 2012

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5 Useful Lies to Tell User Research Participants

Although design researchers vary in their methodology, no one argues with valid results. Lisa Duddington explains how to introduce both passive and active deception into …

Jun 2012

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Comics and UX Part 2 – Flow and Content

In the first part of this series, Rachel Nabors provided readers with ample techniques to improve their craft. In this, final article, Rachel introduces flow …

May 2012

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Comics and User Experience, Part 1: Cross-disciplinary Techniques

As with websites so with comics: there’s a lot more to it than meets the eye. Follow along as Rachel Nabors shares techniques from the …

May 2012

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Facebook’s Faceoff with Google+

Facebook didn’t just nail “social;” they created it. But where they sometimes fail – and where Google+ could win out – is usability. Liz Carlson …

May 2012

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Designs Well with Others: Collaboration for Designers (Part 2)

Distributed teams must overcome a number of issues in order to reap the benefits of collaboration. Learn to communicate more clearly and overcome the dreaded …

May 2012

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