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Stop the Madness! 10 Common UX Design Mistakes and How You Can Avoid Them Wait a minute! Didn’t we solve these UX design issues years ago? It’s no secret that if we don’t learn lessons from the past, then we are doomed to repeat them. Yet 10 popular UX interface design trends are ignoring fundamental […]

Switches, Keyguards, Eyegaze Trackers: Designing Device Interfaces for Radical Accessibility How would you design tools to be used by people who can manipulate only a foot or an eye? In February 2016, the Prentke Romich Company, which for 50 years has been making tools to help people who cannot speak, wanted us to redesign its […]

New Mobile App Heuristics: guidelines to quickly boost the user satisfaction of your app by 50% With mobile now outstripping PCs in uptake, screen time and usage, it’s time for the 20-year-old Nielsen usability heuristics to get a mobile refresh. Combining concepts from the original Nielsen heuristics with research and observations from developing mobile UI […]

Split focus: Designing applications for multiple monitor setups The next big challenge on the horizon for UX in application design is not about the small screen—it’s about going large. Large monitors keep getting cheaper – and higher resolution – so many users working with SaaS and enterprise applications today have multiple monitors on their desks. […]