Blog UI UX Practices
October 14, 2015
Agile should not result in Painware.
Where I think the next focus should be, for Agile development, is how does Agile rollout affect the end user or client.
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September 30, 2015
Quality Cuts Costs
Often cutting costs, in the short term, can be more expensive over time. One place this is often forgotten is the internal tools built by and used within a company. Your employees tools ands procedures should both be bought and built with forethought as to how they will make your workers more productive.
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August 17, 2015
Engineers are Creatives
User Interface Engineers are creative people. They may use some interesting color choices and choose layout idiosyncrasies that seem challenging to the designer, but bottom line they are just as creative as the visual designer.
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August 2, 2015
What Do You Mean by "Cancel?"
Have you ever pressed a "Cancel" button and have the whole window and form disappear? Not just a cleared form but the whole page and you end up on a page you have never been on before? Yes? In my opinion that is not optimal usability.
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July 30, 2015
Tell It Like It Is - Action Button in the UI
For the user, it is extremely frustrating to click an action button and find it doing something other than what they thought it would do. Therefore it makes sense to be clear when we add action buttons to our user interfaces.
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July 27, 2015
Make it Easy - Make it Fast - Make it Intuitive
One of the ongoing challenges in the software and the business world is the tension between "will this bring us money right away" and is this an excellent product. Many times it seems as if the "money right away" wins.
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