User interface (UI) design is a very well-known term, but information architecture (IA) is not. Yet, both are indispensable components of user experience (UX) design, and they are intertwined. This ...

Most applications are designed to help people get their job done, so the success of an application often depends largely on how people use it. Many application development teams falsely assume that ...

Balancing the fine principles that govern user interface with superior functionality is an art form in itself. Just like a writer must trim the fat off sentences for clarity, so too must a web ...

With Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons From Science Fiction, authors Nathan Sherdoff and Christopher Noessel give us an in depth survey of the best ideas that sci-fi movies have to offer for ...

Software has never looked cooler, but user interface design and user experience have taken a sharp turn for the worse. When we first got the personal computer, we didn’t worry much about how things ...

When I noticed the scrollbars were missing on my smartphone, I didn’t care all that much. When I’m reading an article on a tiny screen, I don’t want anything to distract me from the text. User ...

User experience is the foundation of a site’s usability, and it’s an aspect of on-page SEO that many people overlook. If your site lacks the positive user experience and ease of use that end users ...

Great user interface design is invisible. But when bad designs pop up, it can complicate an otherwise simple process. User Inyerface, a short web game created by Bagaar, is an example of what happens ...

It’s hardly controversial to claim that Samsung’s foray into the smartwatch market was influenced by all of the rumors surrounding Apple’s iWatch project. That’s all well and good, but it’s clear that ...