Daedalus WFH Employee Spotlight: Luke Yount
What is your role at Daedalus? I’m a mechanical designer. I design parts, create drawings for manufacturing, and optimize designs for whatever manufacturing process will be used to make them. …
Best Practices for Remote Business Communication
To say that we are in the midst of a uniquely tumultuous situation for businesses and individuals alike would perhaps be an understatement. Amid mandatory closures and the critical need …
Daedalus WFH (Working From Home) Employee Spotlight: Chris Donadio
What is your role at Daedalus? I am a Designer, my role has me designing digital and physical interfaces for medical and safety equipment. At Daedalus I have done everything …
What’s in Your Desktop Design Library?
As a relatively new UX/UI designer, I’m always on the lookout for great resources for learning more about the field. And between online training modules, YouTube tutorials, and UX design …
The Road to UX Hell…
Recently, I’ve begun to see articles and blog posts suggesting that UX, as a discipline, should be retired. Code and Theory CEO Dan Gardner, believes that UX has “moved from …
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 …