Transitional Interfaces

Designers love to sweat the details. Much time is spent pixel-fucking buttons, form styles, setting type, & getting…

Why you should move that button 3px to the left

Drag & Drop: Think Twice

It’s not a UX panacea.

Nothing embodies the graphical user interface like drag & drop. You use a mouse pointer (or, more recently, a finger) to select an object and move it to a new location. Often the object, its original location, and the…

Stop Designing for “Users”

Design for activities

“How often we neglect to address the purposes of…

Introduction to Mobile UX

Mobile is tactile and unique

The Beauty of Paper Prototyping

My husband and I are currently the only two people in Western civilization who haven’t seen Game of…

How to get started in User Experience

A guide for the average Joe.

Google Android’s 3 UX Design Principles and 2 Jars of Marbles

In their presentation at Google I/O, the…

What Are Your Project’s Design Pillars?

When I’m faced with crafting the proper user experience for a particular part of the game…