Children can be a delight to design for when creating interactive touchscreen apps. Their excitement and interest in apps with bright colors, fun characters, and their natural propensity for wanting ...

Note: This is a two-part article. Part Two will appear in our next 19.1 issue. Our news feeds today are rife with ethical issues as they relate to the ever-increasing technologies we use. Self-driving ...

In a dim room, a faint chill brushes against my skin. The eerie silence is only broken by the distant hum of an air conditioner. My heart, usually steady, starts racing, echoing in the stillness. My ...

Imagine you are in a meeting with product managers, designers, and engineers to determine next steps for your mobile redesign project and the team is mired in endless debate. Figure 1. Team gathered ...

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In the complex ecosystem of online advertising, page takeover ads are one of the flagship advertising message delivery formats. Page takeover ads temporarily alter the appearance of a website’s most ...

Recently, I was asked to review the usability of an audio configuration app and propose enhancements in the areas of navigation design, workflows, workspace management, and the overall usability of ...

From time to time, organizations need to review all their forms, a task often performed by inexperienced staff with limited resources. This article is based on the author’s recent experience in ...

Interaction with software applications is an integral part of our lives today. The quality of interaction is influenced by multiple factors such as usability of the interface, branding, how different ...

We have all been there—the umpteenth design review on a feedback loop that just will not end. The team is exhausted and creativity has been squeezed like water out of a dishrag. The stakeholders keep ...

The use of information and communications technologies (ICT) in healthcare has been heralded as a potential solution to issues of high cost, poor quality, and unsatisfactory patient care experience.

Design requires empathy and a deep understanding of users’ workflows and mental models, which is usually accomplished through user research. Generative research methods can be greatly improved through ...