Design specifications are detailed documents that outline essential requirements, constraints and specifications for products to adhere to. They act as fundamental blueprints in product development, ...
The world is overflowing with data—every click, transaction and interaction is tracked and measured. But simply gathering data is not enough, you must know what data to collect, how to analyze it and ...
The Einstellung effect is a phenomenon that occurs when designers are so used to approaching problems in some ways that they overlook better ways. It is a cognitive trap arising from a desire to find ...
© Teo Yu Siang and the Interaction Design Foundation, CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. It’s hard to know where to start when your mind, table, hard drive and maybe even the front ...
The end goal of a design thinking process is to create a solution that is desirable, feasible and viable. This means that your product should satisfy the needs of a user, be feasible to implement and ...
Empathy requires us to put aside our learning, culture, knowledge, opinions, and worldview purposefully in order to understand other peoples’ experiences of things deeply and meaningfully. It requires ...
In the 1980s and ‘90s, our technology-loving civilization rode the wave of Personal Computing – one computer per person. As computers became smaller and less expensive to produce, every worker—or ...
The product life cycle is an important tool for marketers, management and designers alike. It specifies four individual stages of a product’s life and offers guidance for developing strategies to make ...
Human Computer Interaction is the academic discipline that most of us think of as UI design. It focuses on the way that human beings and computers interact to ever increasing levels of both complexity ...
UX roles describe the various parts designers play in the design process. They range from generalist roles—e.g., UX designers and product designers—to specialist ones such as visual designers and UX ...
Design sprints are an intense 5-day process where user-centered teams tackle design problems. Working with expert insights, teams ideate, prototype and test solutions on selected users. Google’s ...
People form emotional connections and associations with the things they use and come across throughout their lives. These connections and associations help guide our behavior and determine how we ...