What Is User Experience Design? Overview, Tools And Resources - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement Websites and Web applications have become progressively more complex as our industry’s technologies and methodologies advance. What used to be a one-way static medium has evolved into a very rich and interactive experience. But regardless of how much has changed in the production process, a website’s success still hinges on just one thing: how users perceive it. “Does this website give me value? Is it easy to use? User experience design is all about striving to make them answer “Yes” to all of those questions. What Is User Experience? User experience (abbreviated as UX) is how a person feels when interfacing with a system.
Those who work on UX (called UX designers) study and evaluate how users feel about a system, looking at such things as ease of use, perception of the value of the system, utility, efficiency in performing tasks and so forth. UX designers also look at sub-systems and processes within a system. Why Is UX Important? There was no science behind what we did. Creative Problem Solving: PHP, jQuery and the Semi-Dynamic. The other day, I was asked to do something a little tricky on the Highland Marketing website. I had a static slider window that featured a number of “slides” promoting different services and unique parts of the site. It’s been working in its static form very nicely ever since the current design was implemented, with updates involving little more than creating, adding or subtracting images from the collection. What I was asked to do was to make one of the slides dynamic. Here’s a little background on the situation. We have a website (obviously) and part of that website includes a blog, which is home to a collection of really great content.
It is not, however, getting as much readership as we might like, so we wanted to give it a bit more visibility on the home page. So, to sum up the challenge, I had to figure out a way to retrieve the latest post from a WordPress blog and somehow port the post title and link into a currently static, image-based slide on a Concrete5 website. The Process. What Does Rich Mean? Amid the current hype of Web 2.0, rich has become the de facto buzzword suggesting fresh, sexy digital products, often marked by glossy buttons with AJAX-driven behaviors. But what does rich mean to a UI (user interface) designer who wants to craft intelligent, compelling, and memorable interactions? Given current digital and technological trends, today’s UI designers must deepen their understanding of richness.
Such an effort will strengthen designers’ vocabularies (adding legitimacy and weight to client discussions), and enable designers to temper judgment when it comes to applying rich capabilities. Before delving into notions about richness, it is critical to acknowledge the core challenge of designing rich experiences. Designers face an ongoing battle for human attention across the digital landscape—from websites and desktop applications, to mobile devices and beyond. A Framework for Experience: Rhetoric Attention: the connection between a person and a form Attributes: Examples: Collaboration Loop - Drupal and the Power of Community. Super Cool Bean Bags Posted: under Uncategorized. If you ask me, baby bean bags were one of the best inventions to come out of the modern world.
When we had Francis we knew we were going to put her down for naps and bedtime in a baby sleeping bag after we did some research on the subject. We were amazed with the information we found. We discovered that with her head and arms sticking out of fitted holes in the baby bean bag it makes nighttime much safer for her. Sizing of the baby sleeping bags is the same as any infant clothes and there are different thicknesses of fabric. We watch the temperature in Francis’ room carefully and use the proper TOG rated baby sleeping bag based on the thermometer reading. The idea it to keep Francis from overheating, which would wake her up and interrupt her sleep. We would never consider using anything other than baby sleeping bags and will continue to do so until she outgrows them all.
Mar 31 2014 Swimming with a Toddler We were big water people.