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Ergonomics & Cognition / Other Resources

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 …

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design thinking / Products & Culture

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 …

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design thinking / Ergonomics & Cognition / product development

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 …

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design thinking

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 …

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design thinking / product development

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 …

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product development / Products & Culture

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 …

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design thinking / Ergonomics & Cognition

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 …

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Ergonomics & Cognition / product development

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 …

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design thinking / Products & Culture

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% …

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design thinking / Products & Culture

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 …

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