This is an excerpt from the upcoming “Android Design Patterns: Interaction Design Solutions for Developers” (Wiley, 2013) by Greg Nudelman The first thing your customers see when they download and open your app is the welcome mat you roll out
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Simplify your work and your life by learning the tools and techniques that authors have used to conquered gnarly problem spaces. From avoiding burnout to doing scrappy research on a shoestring budget, you’ll benefit from their experience, avoid making the mistakes they made, and go on to make all new mistakes of your own. (Then contribute your learnings back to us!)
Mythic Design
When I agreed to teach a twelve-week course on user experience design, I did what anyone of us would do: I went to find something to copy. I trolled the articles and syllabi I could find online, and I was
Continue readingUser Experience Go Away
There is no UX for us That’s right! I said it. For us (designers, information architects, interaction designers, usability professionals, HCI researchers, visual designers, architects, content strategists, writers, industrial designers, interactive designers, etc.) the term user experience design (UX) is
Continue readingDesigning Screens Using Cores and Paths
If you can place your core offering firmly at the center of your design, then all other elements in the site help both the users and the business reach their goals.
Kalbach and Lindemann show how the Core+Paths method keeps the design focused on your goals.
Continue readingFlow, Mastery and Ease-of-Use
As the web design community explores using game design principles in our work, we must be aware of how and when they are appropriate.
Christina Wodtke takes a closer look at two key principles, mastery and flow, and explains how we might use them in application design.
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