Smashing Magazine just published an article about Useful Techniques for Good UI Design, that even though concentrated on Web Applications, I felt there were a few techniques that could be reviewed with an eye towards VUI design: Highlight important changes And by this I don’t mean “Please listen careful for our menu options have changed”. [...]
With more people spending more time watching video on their computers than on TV, it makes sense to have a XUI – A channel for User Interface Design. Enjoy!
I’ve always been fascinated by the cross-pollination that can be achieved when various fields and disciplines work together. As you might have noticed from my various posts, I also like to keep an eye out for opportunities in the UI field – things happening in other fields that may not be working together in ours [...]
While doing some research on Multimodal Usability and User Interfaces, I ran across a list of Three Main Attributes of Multimodal User Interfaces, which on careful thought, can definitively be applied to ANY User Interface. It was a nice refresher which reminded me of why good design is so difficult to achieve, but very rewarding. [...]
Finally had a chance to look at this month’s cover article of the SpeechTEK magazine. What a joy! I was very pleased to see that once again, the topic of Translations (which I often refer to as “Transgressions”) comes up in an attempt to raise awareness about the implications of simply taking content in once [...]
It seems one of the most frequent questions that come up when designing a new user interface is “how many options should appear on any given menu?” which depending on the answer is almost always followed by “how many levels down should the system have?” And believe me, neither one has an easy or absolute [...]
I recently got a link from Amy Quinn pointing out an article entitled “101 Five-Minute Fixes to Incrementally Improve Your Web Site” provided by InsideCRM, and though it might be helpful to go over some of those points in the list and hence suggest “21 Quick Fixes” (granted they might take a little more than [...]
As if not enough discussion has been generated over this particular UI design tool on the VUIDs group, it seems the 37 signals post about how they don’t use Personas stirred yet another round of arguments on both their own site as well as in some other UI-related blogs such as Good Experience and The [...]
(I found this great article by Jared M. Spool) and decided to do an adaptation) From observation and analysis, it seems teams who focus on the long term objectives of a project and an organization are far more likely to create designs that really pay off for the organization, whereas short-term vision teams end up [...]
Considering the latest advancements and the impact of social media in our environment, I think it would make sense to borrow a page from social design and re-think who should be the center or “pivot” of our designs. As Joshua points out in his blog, social software has changed the focus of most web applications [...]
