The Man Nod | Defining a Global Phenomenon

A universal greeting with evolutionary ties

Fuck Dropdowns: 6 Ways to Eliminate Dropdowns From Your Design

Making Triggered Text Appear in VR: An Adventure

This is one of those problems that was an adventure to solve. I am developing a maze in virtual reality. I built the maze using the terrain feature so it is like navigating a maze made of hills or mountains rather than walls or hedges. I used…

20 Awesome and Inspiring Feminist Products

I am officially two weeks into my social innovation assignment, and boy have I…

You Know What? Fuck Dropdowns

Dropdowns are like that clingy acquaintance you can never seem to get rid of. No matter what you do, you…

The History of Television

Few inventions have had as much effect on contemporary American society as television. The typical American spends (depending on the survey and the time of year) from two-and-a-half to almost five hours a day watching television. It is significant not only that this time is being…

Designing for the Stressed, Distracted and Vulnerable

Speculation and Emerging Tech

Whether you are dealing with emerging technology, a new business or idea — speculation will certainly be…

Lady Doritos and Other Unnecessary Gender Specific Products

What UX Professionals Are Reading — Pt. 2

More reading recommendations for aspiring and current UX designers

How You Can Augment Your Reality Right Now

The future is here — and these are some cool apps you can download now

Tyranny of the minority . Content creators and the platform.

A New Approach to Writing Personas

I’ve had a love/hate relationship with personas over the past six months. I’ve enjoyed researching…

The Job Search Is Coming

As we find ourselves comfortably settled into our second semester one thing continues to creep into my mind, the inevitable job search. Following my graduation from undergraduate studies, I had no idea what I would be doing for work. The feeling of searching for a job following…

Why Comic Sans is a Good Typeface

Comic Sans is just as good as any other typeface. In fact, I would argue that no typeface is…

User Interview Questions Don’t Have to Be Sterile

Everything Is A Presentation

All roads should lead to PowerPoint

UX Building Blocks to Skyscrapers

This time last semester I was assuming shortsighted marketing personas in attempts to capture the…

Struggling As A Team

Inherent in many of our class subjects is the process that goes into building a product and what it takes to pursue a product idea all the way through to deployment. Around those topics comes with some insights about how to build a business. Our classes have not discussed with us the…

Speak up for the Deaf

I am sure that there is a lot that I don’t know about the Deaf community, but after doing preliminary research on accessibility and having a close personal friend, I realize that this society isn’t very accommodating to the DHH, Deaf & Hard of Hearing, community.