Every design tells a story. Every story has a design. It’s your job to connect the two. It takes planning and thoughtful design every step along the way. Effective storytelling requires that you use ...

User interface design expert Billy Hollis is annoyed when he spots even tiny application tweaks that could improve the intuitive experience for users. He finds them everywhere, even in our favorite ...

With Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons From Science Fiction, authors Nathan Sherdoff and Christopher Noessel give us an in depth survey of the best ideas that sci-fi movies have to offer for ...

[This piece, written by Microsoft Research’s Mary Czerwinski (pictured below), is the fourth in a series of posts about cutting-edge areas of innovation. The series is sponsored by Microsoft.

There are two fundamental approaches to usability. One is usability by evaluation; the other is usability by principles. Usability by evaluation involves dissecting a design to find its strong and ...

The importance of ergonomics in hardware design is easy to grasp, if not always simple to carry out. The end goal is to make a device as easy and comfortable to use as possible, both physically and ...

Part of UI design focuses on creating aesthetically pleasing and user-friendly interfaces for software, websites or smart devices. Well-designed systems not only include solid features or stable ...

While at the San Francisco Auto Show last year, I wondered why car dashboards were so wrong? Every car — regardless of category or price — had the same mess of dials, buttons, lights and screens ...

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Great user interface design is invisible. But when bad designs pop up, it can complicate an otherwise simple process. User Inyerface, a short web game created by Bagaar, is an example of what happens ...