Facebook's coming video ads will be disruptive, interrupt people, and run the risk of Facebook becoming the very social network it supplanted, according to at least one online advertising executive.
Guest Post It’s easiest if you consider the four types of testing -- unit, functional, data, and user experience -- as building blocks that can be put together to create more comprehensive testing.
2013 is the year where most everyone you know not only owns a smartphone, but actually starts using it to a fuller extent.
Guest Post Here are some tools and techniques you can use to flush out problems in your mobile app design.
Guest Post With all the money and effort being poured into mobile right now, why is engagement so low? Mobile developers keep on making the same mistakes.
Guest Post Security remains a staple for these modern IT directors, but the steady flow of employees’ new technologies has changed their thinking to include user experience.
Guest Post Last week, I had an experience at a large national electronics chain that brought home how far the big box retailers are falling behind their online competitors.
Guest Post Designer? Check. CTO? Check. Engineering VP? Check. So whose job is it to make sure the experience flow is smooth, magical, and consistent?
Guest Post I started my user experience education in a very different way than most.
I'm guessing most of us didn't have a clue what that was yesterday, but most of us have encountered it and wondered about it in Apple products.
Who cares about good design or bad design, Ben Huh of the wildly successful Cheezburger network of comedy sites said today at GROW 2012. According to Huh, you don't need great design to have a successful design. "We have one of the worst-looking sites on the planet," Huh admitted.
Launching a new operating system may not require reinventing the wheel, but it could mean reinventing the keyboard.
That’s the conclusion Microsoft reached as it developed Windows 8, an operating system whose reliance on the touchscreen forced the company to …
Yesterday, Skype updated its Mac client, adding group screen sharing, video calls with mobile users, and significantly altering the user interface. That is not the story. Rather, the story is why the company changed, and how the update is largely …
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Whether you design software or physical products, the role of the designer is the same: to build a bridge between the user’s intent and the actual outcome of that intent.
The most successful designs are the ones that make the …
Chuck Longanecker of Digital Telepathy is one of our go-to experts when it comes to design and user experience, and today, we invited him into the VentureBeat studio to talk about how web design is evolving.
Longanecker had a lot …
Scott Croyle only just took over as the new design head at mobile device company HTC, but the former vice president of design already has big plans.
In the near future, the smartphone and tablet maker will “concentrate on delivering …
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User experience (UX) is a rapidly growing profession that’s attracting high caliber talent from all areas of design, development and marketing. Over the past 16 months, creative recruiting company Onward Search collected data on job listings and noticed a 338 …
Zurb, a consulting firm that helps other companies build and design better websites, launched a new web application today called Verify that helps determine what users remember most about a website.
Verify helps website designers determine which parts of their …
Nokia’s management house cleaning continues with its announcement today that Chairman Jorma Ollila (pictured right) will be stepping down in 2012, the Wall Street Journal reports.
News of Ollila’s eventual departure was balanced with a notable new hire: Palm Pre …
Much awaited by many, Twitter released its official iPad app some hours ago. And it’s something of a gem — if you think you know what Twitter apps on touch screen devices feel like, you’re going to be in for …
