How Not to Do Accessible Design
In addition to directing User Experience at Daedalus, I am also heavily involved in my local community. I recently attended a learning conference for municipal personnel and sat in on …
Best Practices for Remote Business Communication
Photo by DESIGNECOLOGIST on Unsplash 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Designing for the Age Enhanced: Touch and Proprioception
When I started our Designing for the Age Enhanced series, I thought the articles would informative and fun to write. But, since I’m in my 40s, I have to admit …
Designing for the Age Enhanced: Taste and Smell
Welcome to the latest article in our “Designing for the Age Enhanced” series — which internally we’ve started referring to as the “Getting Older Sucks” series. We’ve already talked about what …
“But We Only Use 10% of Our Brains!”
“It is estimated most human beings only use 10% of their brain’s capacity.” That’s a line from Morgan Freeman’s character in the new Sci-Fi movie Lucy, coming out this summer. It’s …
Designing for the Age-Enhanced: Cognitive Changes
If you’ve read the previous posts in this series, you understand the changes that happen to our vision and the change that happen to our hearing as we age and, …