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.
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Facebook Home isn’t a mobile operating system. But normal users who buy or download the Home experience won’t know or care. They’ll suddenly have Facebook phones that look, feel, and behave totally different from Android phones.
And the answer to …
Guest Post Screen size matters more than content creators think.
Editor's Pick “For every step forward in technology,“ says designer Mark Curtis, “you lose something and you gain something.”
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 It’s no secret that smartphones are overwhelmingly the most popular and fastest growing mobile access point to the Internet today.
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?
If you read digital comics, the chances are pretty great that you prefer to do so on a particular device. For me its the iPad, and I rarely bother with anything else, even if I want to. But with the latest update to the ComiXology platform, that may change.
The rules for third-party developers who integrate with Twitter have just gotten more complex, and we count at least 32 separate requirements for apps that incorporate tweets.
Pebble, the smartwatch for your smartphone, released an early preview of its user interface on Vimeo today ... including a look behind the scenes at how the massively successful crowdfunding project is building the software.
Love it or hate it, Apple is about design.
The company’s annual design awards were announced this week at the World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco, Calif., showcasing the best the iOS and Mac development communities have produced.
Since …
WalkMe, a startup that provides a step-by-step walk-through service for websites, has nabbed $1 million in funding, the company announced today.
WalkMe’s service helps users navigate a site by placing pop-up bubbles in certain locations to lead the user through …
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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 …
Foundation, a new framework for web design, helps you make beautiful, consistent experiences across all kinds of personal computers, TVs and mobile devices, including tablets and a range of smartphones.
Seeing Framework’s magic in action is, well, a bit magical. …
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 …
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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 …
Here’s our roundup of the week’s top tech business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:
New iPhone 5 images based on leaked design specs — A new set of iPhone 5 device mockups …
No one can doubt that Google+ circles are fun, easy to set up and innovative. In terms of user experiences, circles are one of the more exciting features we’ve seen in a social app in quite a while.
Touch-friendly and …
The new version of video-chat application Skype for Comcast’s Xfinity TV service focuses on providing a user-friendly experience for people who spend more time in front of a television than a computer, according to employees who worked on the app’s …
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 …
