Keeping Users in the (Feedback) Loop
Imagine your sister just had a beautiful baby boy. Now imagine being awoken at 5am a few days later by a text from your sister that said only “omg”. That …
UX Design and Abusability Testing
As a part of this year’s World Interaction Design Day, the Daedalus UX team attended an Abusability Testing Workshop, organized by our local IxDA Chapter. World Interaction Design Day is …
Don’t count out the lefties — the importance of considering every user in UX/UI counts
Recently, I was using an animation app on my iPad when my design suddenly vanished! It didn’t take long for me to identify the culprit — there was an undo …
The risks of dismissing minor usability issues
As a human factors psychologist, I am often asked to predict where users will (or have) run into problems with a product by evaluating its usability — the measure of …
Pittsburgh’s World IA Day 2019
Earlier this year members of our design team attended World Information Architecture Day 2019 in Pittsburgh, a day-long event of thought-provoking workshops and presentations given by remarkable speakers. World IA …
Notoriously notched X not iPhone’s ruination
According to a click-bait link to Slate, and a slew of articles elsewhere, iPhone X sales are “abysmal”. However, the 3rd party data in the Slate article, data that says 30% …
Irredeemable 2-spacers (aka teaching outmoded skills)
A little while back, our office had a rather lively email debate about how many spaces should be typed after a period—no, I’m not joking, this actually happened. Anyway, about …
Are we just biological robots?
In the last month there have been a couple articles about the bacteria in our bodies that caught our attention. The average human body contains about 6 pounds of bacteria. …
But we’re all designers!
Sooner or later, everyone who works in design hears something along the lines of but we’re all designers – usually from a Project Manager who didn’t agree with the designer and …
Selecting a microcontroller
These days product design typically involves sensors, LEDs, displays, buttons or a touch screen, sound, data logging, and wireless connectivity. The lowest cost, lowest power, most flexible, and most compact …