Archive for the ‘design’ Category

An interview on UX design

A while ago I answered some questions for .Net magazine about my work at Webjam, only a few quotes got published, so it seems like a good idea to share my answers with the world.
What does user experience mean, as far as you’re concerned?
User experience is about aligning the existing elements –information, visual style and [...]

Where marketing and experience design meet

Are those who use a Moleskin more successful, richer and more creative? Maybe a weird question. Logic tells you “of course not!”, writing in an expensive notebook should not differ from writing in one that you bought for a pound. But think with me for a moment, to be able to buy a Moleskin you [...]

design and emotions

In this article I want to discuss the relation between emotion and design, but first let me say why I think that we are having this discussions at this very moment (and not a decade ago (or next decade)) I see five reasons.

Interaction design is more than graphic design on a screen or industrial design [...]

Design for the difficult

This is my tiny wrap up of uxcamplondon talk that I held at the Ebay Headquarters down in Richmond. My talk had the  inspiring title “designing for the difficult – because some things just aren’t simple”. Before I had my talk I had only a vague understanding of the concept. But I think I understand [...]

Neuro Web Design – a book review

This review is about the book Neuro Web Design – what makes users click by Susan M. Weinschenk. As the title suggests this book is supposed to be about what web designers and web marketeers can learn from ‘recent’ insights from psychology to build websites that are better up for their tasks. I.E. how [...]

Another definition of design

As I pointed out in my previous post, I think that there is still something missing on all the great diagrams that are already made about design. And that is “why bother about design in the first place”. I placed my writings in a nice little diagram that hopefully explains what I meant, but also [...]

What is Ux Design

I came across quite some sideshows, some arguing quit strongly against calling the artist formally known as interaction designer Tafkid now a user experience designer.
Are You An User Experience Designer
Although i do agree with the key ingredients of this presentation, I also think one should avoid wasting ones time on defining meaning of words or [...]

Emotional Design

Emotional design, or should I say, emotional technology, sounds like a concept or thought up by hippies, or some Japanese scientist on a remote island (Aibo anyone?). Though in his book Emotinal Design Donald A. Norman explains that, although most technology is without any soul, we humans, trained for social interaction, are capable of putting [...]

Folksonomy – De mythe van het semantische web

De volgende tekst gaat over de overeenkomsten en verschillen tussen
het Semantisch Web (een artikel van Tim Berners-Lee uit 2001 over hoe computers data kunnen begrijpen) en het recent populair geworden begrip folksonomy (een manier van categoriseren door gebruikers). Het gaat in op de begrippen zelf, de huidige voor en nadelen en geeft een toekomst verwachting
Inleiding
De [...]