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design thinking / Products & Culture

Delightful Microinteractions

I’ve written in the past about how poorly-designed microinteractions can undermine your users’ confidence in and commitment to your product or platform, and why you should seriously undertake the effort …

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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

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 …

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design research / design thinking / product development

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 …

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Ergonomics & Cognition / product development

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, …

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design research / design thinking / product development

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 …

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Ergonomics & Cognition / Products & Culture

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 …

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product development / Products & Culture

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 …

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