Many say the widespread use of smartphones has revolutionised the society. Perhaps some compelling evidence could be the change in our use of maps. Smartphones, together with wide coverage of mobile networks, have guaranteed people access to the internet wherever they are. Therefore, people relied less and less on paper…

So far into 2022, we believe most of us have had a smooth start. However, would you say you also have had smooth experiences when visiting websites? How is your website visiting experience in general? Inspired by Andy Budd’s tweet about a typical website visit in 2022, we as a…

YouTube, the largest online video sharing platform in the world, is now an almost indispensable part of netizens’ daily lives. If you happen to be a heavy user, we have a question for you whilst you are here. That is, which element around YouTube’s Like/Dislike design is no longer visible…

Back in 2006, there was a huge problem hitting the music industry: pirating music, a.k.a downloading it illegally for personal consumption. This meant that music artists, both small and large, were earning less and less income from their music. Therefore, Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon decided to create a platform…

Every year 30,000 digital professionals meet in Austin, Texas for the South by Southwest Interactive festival. For the first time, a US President addressed the attendees here on Friday, 11th March 2016. …

Personas are an incredibly useful modelling tool for representing complex networks of interaction and configuration. They enable designers to examine conceptual design ideals in a representational framework. Behavioural patterns and mentalities of real individuals are embodied, with an eventual focus on the attainment of goals. As maintained by Cooper: ‘One…

8 things I discovered when exploring CSS and HTML Creating a personal website using HTML5 and CSS3 was a very intriguing experience, but it certainly posed a number of challenges. It was possible to overcome these trials and tribulations in a variety of ways, including: well-defined, web-based blogs; advice from the knowledgeable UX Connections team along with book tutorials. Thus the experience enabled me to discover a great deal about the web, here are 8 distinctive lessons that I learned:

UX for your Granny, escalator experiences and augmented reality — Here’s our highlights from Digital Shoreditch. — “Let’s Get Real! Groundbreaking Virtual and Augmented Reality” By Daniel Cheetham (Head of Interactive, Happy Finish) Virtual Reality was impossible to ignore at Digital Shoreditch this year. From the moment William Hill handed out those google cardboards it was clear that VR would be to digital shoreditch what Meerkat was to SXSW.

Our Highlights: The Future Of Web Design 2015 UX Connections recently had the opportunity to attend the FOWD 2015 conference in London, which was an excellent conference for anyone in the web design and development community. With a packed two days of informative talks and activities, here are some of our highlights! “Clear cache and refresh — getting started with designing in the browser” By Flurin Egger and Adrian Egger