Design

Atomic Design — where science and design collide

Some people say design is like science and I think they’re on to something. You see, these past weeks I’ve been working a lot with defining design systems…

Is Less More?

A couple of weeks ago during a dinner with friends, we started discussing the idea that less is more. It has become popular among our peers and society in general that we ALWAYS need to…

Designing for Accessibility

When I first started doing web design it was the late 90’s and there weren’t too many bells and whistles besides animated gifs and the blink-tag. As web design evolved, we began creating more and more sites using technologies like flash that ended up being even worse for the user.

Why Simple is Hard

For most of us, designing simple user interfaces, simple user interactions, and simple user experiences are things we strive for when making new products. We recognize that this simplicity makes our product desirable to the user and why a product gets labeled as “good”. What we rarely talk…

UX Design explained

Talking the talk and walking the walk

UX is Much More Than Software

My Process for Understanding the FULL User Experience

Most companies are beginning to understand how important user experience is for their bottom line. They are actively trying solve or avoid these problems, but…

The Fundamentals of Good UX

There’s a seriously misguided tendency for people to focus more on the ‘design’ in user experience design than the ‘user’.

But no matter how well designed your site is, if your user can’t do what they want, when they want, they’ll leave unhappy, and…

Simplicity — Be Your Own MVP

It’s a new year and, to many of us, that means we’re able to start with a clean slate. People all over the…