User Experience, UX, and Experience Design often feel like terms-du-jour: the new, sexy words we use to sell folks on what we do. The terms’ recent rise in popularity left us wondering if anything is new here. Or are we renaming the old arts and disciplines of design? As we often do, we delved into [...]

For years, we’ve been touring the world talking about designing web sites. At every presentation we’ve given, someone approaches us and asks the tough question: “Does this apply to web-based applications?” It’s a tough question because the answer often is Yes and No. Yes, good design practice is good design practice and it applies no [...]

Last week, I got this question: I know you’ve been involved with the web for a long time, so I wanted to ask you a simple question: in your opinion, how useful is a computer science degree for a career in web development? I’m a second year CS major, and considering dropping out because I [...]

Web applications live in this strange world, half application, half web site. Something as simple as making a command look like a command, becomes difficult quickly. Do you make it a button? Should it be a link? Visual design problems affect an application’s success in a variety of ways. In the mildest form, they slow [...]

One thing I love about my neighborhood grocery store is how they have a little demonstration area where they feature different food items each week. Often times they’ll cook the items up in a little, easy-to-make recipe that’s quite tasty. More often than not, I’ll end up buying whatever they’re demoing. The grocer is definitely [...]

SEO and User Experience shouldn’t be at odds with one another. That’s what Vanessa Fox and Tamara Adlin tell us in this week’s SpoolCast with Jared Spool.