The difference between Information Architecture and UX Design
Next to explaining what I do for a living, the second question I most frequently hear is: “What’s the difference between Information Architecture and User Experience?” The line always seems to blur between the two, even though there’s clearly a difference. How should I go about explaining it?
ProRail & NS, Innovation that improves safety and comfort on the platform
In this age of rising passenger numbers and the increasing frequency of incoming and outgoing trains, the passenger on the platform is under pressure. ProRail – together with NS Dutch Railways – wants to improve the transfer process on platforms: more comfortable, faster and safer.
Obvious always wins
It’s tempting to rely on menu controls in order to simplify mobile interface designs —especially on small screens. But hiding critical parts of an application behind these kinds of menus could negatively impact usage.
Nextr – Public Transportation Guidiance
Nextr is an iPhone app that guides you through all public transportation systems in Germany. Public transportation guidance rethought. Available in the App Store.
Content- out Layout
¨Grids do not exist in a vacuum. They exist in relation to the content. We never start with a grid. We start with an idea which is then translated into a form, a structure.¨ by Linda van Deursen Grids serve well to divide up a predefined canvas and guide how content fits onto a page, […]
Be my eyes, lend your eyes to the blind
Be My Eyes is an app that connects blind people with volunteer helpers from around the world via live video chat. Downloading the app users can help blind people see.
Pay per laught
It’s the world we live in: every human activity broken down into measurable chunks, everything made quantifiable, the easier to be priced, packaged and sold. So why should comedy be spared?
Contextual Task Analysis
A contextual task analysis, or contextual inquiry, is a user research method that applies ethnographic observation and one-on-one interviewing to understand the task procedures that users follow to reach their goals. The researcher silently observes the user at work in his or her natural work environment and notes any tools and people that support the user as they work toward task goals.
Cognitive walkthroughs
To determine the level of usability for a website, one or more usability experts “walk” through a set of the most typical user tasks supported by the website, one-step-at-a-time. At each step in a task procedure, the evaluator(s) asks herself the following four questions about her expectations of users’ behaviors
Can I use?
“Can I use” provides up-to-date browser support tables for support of front-end web technologies on desktop and mobile web browsers.
Authentic Weather
One smile at a time plus accurate weather information.Authentic Weather is probably the most honest & human weather app out there.
What are Users Up to When they Have an Experience?
In my role as strategist for a marketing agency, I work with a number of clients who have, in the past few years, taken a more customer-centric approach to their marketing activities.
The science of Happy Design
So much of the news about technology tells us that websites, mobile apps, and social media are bad for us. Supposedly, technology makes us anxious, our smartphones take us out of the present moment, and social media ensnares us in a dopamine loop.
Stir Kinetic Desk
A Srir kinetic Desk is an office desk.It makes moving while working, effortless and engaging. Creating extra energy while standing at your desk can lead to your most creative work.
An interesting list of must-read books about design
As Facebook’s director of product design, Margaret Gould Stewart (TED Talk: How giant websites design for you (and a billion others, too) has to come up with designs seen by literally billions of people. No pressure. She’s an old hand at this game, though, having previously worked on the digital output of those other giants, […]
Are we thinking about digital all wrong?
If digital is just a tool in our business arsenal, then it fundamentally alters how we approach this new medium. It will even redefine what your job should be. If digital is just a tool, we might not even need web professionals.