Today’s consumer expectations center on quality. Quality of design gives the impression of a professional and secure experience. Because of the amount of competition in just about every application market,…
UX: Why is Amazon so bad at user experience?
Chances are, you have used Amazon.com, purchased many things, or watched Prime movies over the last few years. The amazon.com site has changed over the years, but the user experience…
User Experience: Creating Stakeholder Maps
When it comes to user experience, a product manager should always understand who the stakeholders are for their product. It is very common to do stakeholder interviews and get detailed…
Adaptive vs Responsive Design
In the last couple of years, a common issue in UI/UX development has popped up because of the introduction of so many smartphones and tablets that have flooded the market….
Rapid Prototyping with Foundation
I have always been a fan of Rapid Application Development. In some cases prototyping an experience (AKA Interactive Wireframing) can also be a useful tool during development. Foundation is a…
Basic UX Considerations: Text length
An important consideration for user experience is to note the max width/height of any particular area that content will reside. Always design according to the maximum amount of content an…
Alternative Content in Responsive Design
The transition from traditional, single screen web development to the current cross-screen standards that touch on mobile, tablet, the desktop, and beyond, has ramped up significantly in the last few…
Amazing effects with Transit (modern browsers)
This plugin has some really cool effects. I particularly like the easing functions. There are so many reasons why you should use a plugin for these types of effects. Mostly…
Responsive Headlines with slabText
Check out this awesome jQuery plugin that can help to make big, bold headlines for your responsive sites. Possible alternative to using image replacement text like cufon. Give it a…
Templating, JavaScript and Moustache.js
The ability to “templatize” HTML using javaScript isn’t a new concept but with mustache.js it is getting easier and more streamlined. Inside of the core, there are lots of functions…