Published in Inspire + Advance·Oct 19, 2017A Bone to Pick with Skeleton Screensby Kathryn Faulkner & Katherine Olvera Facebook and Google use skeleton screens to make their apps feel faster. Should you be using them too? In the fight for the short attention span of our users, every performance gain, whether real or perceived, matters. This is especially true on mobile, where…UX4 min read
Published in Inspire + Advance·Jun 13, 2017What UX Designers Can Learn From IKEAI recently moved and ended up buying a lot of IKEA furniture. While assembling the different pieces, I began to notice how IKEA devises their instructions to gently lead builders through complex tasks. One of the customer’s first interactions with an IKEA product will be to build it, and this…Onboarding6 min read
Published in Startups & Venture Capital·May 24, 2017No, Amazon’s Latest Patent Won’t Disrupt Apparel ManufactureOver the last few weeks, I’ve read a few articles that review Amazon’s latest patent for a process to automate apparel manufacture. Most of them seem to focus on how Amazon’s patent to make custom clothing could revolutionize clothing manufacture or even “sound the death knell” for the apparel industry…Fashion9 min read