Thinking

Walking through IKEA over the weekend with two young children was a healthy reminder of what contributes to an ideal customer experience: innovative product design and thoughtful service design.

User experience is a growing field. More and more people are learning and practicing UX. As the demand grows, many companies are looking to hire UX designers.

Designers pride themselves on the interfaces they design. But sometimes designers can get so lost in the interface they forget that it's for the user, not them.

The hierarchy of needs is a theory in psychology proposed by Abraham Maslow describing the stages of human growth. But just like in humans, user interfaces go through stages of growth too.

Many say that Steve Jobs was the best CEO ever. One would have a hard time arguing that he wasn’t after seeing what he did to start NeXT in the mid 1980s.

Many people start using calculators at a young age, and more so when they get older. They use it to do math at school, and they’ll eventually use it to manage their finances.

People use automated teller machines (ATM) everyday all over the world. But some of these ATMs cause users to make errors that could cost them more than they can bargain for.

Designers use rounded corners so much today that they're more of an industry standard than a design trend. Not only are they found on software user interfaces, but hardware product designs as well.

What personality preferences do you and other designers share? According to a survey by Michael Roller, most designers share the Myers-Briggs preferences of intuition and judgment.

Have you ever read the comments left at the end of an article or video? Comments used to offer useful, supplementary information that you couldn't get from the content itself.

There are many user interface pattern libraries for desktop interfaces. But mobile pattern libraries have now taken over. After sifting through many, I've collected the best.

Imagine the difficulty of getting to a destination without a clear direction. It's not enough to know where you want to go. You also have to know the process that'll get you there.

It's no secret that Apple is one of the most successful companies in the world today. But it wasn't always this way for them.

Expedia learned a valuable lesson about optional form fields. And it only took them $12 million to do it. However, you can learn it right here for free. The lesson is twofold.