Delightful Microinteractions
I’ve written in the past about how poorly-designed micro-interactions can undermine your users’ confidence in and commitment to your product or platform, and why you should seriously undertake the effort …
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 …
Designing for the Age Enhanced: Touch and Proprioception
When I started our Designing for the Age Enhanced series, I thought the articles would be informative and fun to write. But, since I’m in my 40s, I have to …
Silence is Deadly
My posts always argue that as designers (and engineers, manufacturers, etc), we have a responsibility to create smart, beautiful, and useful products for our users. But lately, I’ve realized that …
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 changes that happen to our hearing as we age, and, …
The Meaning of Experience
My mom is barely old enough to remember a world without color television. As far as I remember, we’ve always had a computer in the house, and my younger brother …
Raccoons, Top Gear, and Aging Eyes
Over the last decade, I have purchased three video games for myself (and a couple hundred for our kids). All of mine have been racing games. Last week I picked …
My Product Is on TV!
There is always a flurry of emails at Daedalus when one of the products we helped design is spotted on TV or in a movie. For some reason, the excitement …