We tend to believe that every new feature is a good and valuable addition to a product. Quite often, it can be hard to not implement a feature, especially when you’re constantly hearing good ideas for new features every week.
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To help us remain up to date on goings on in the digital design and technology industry we read A LOT here at Every Interaction. We tweet most of the articles we read, but we also keep a log of the interesting posts we find in this blog – What we‘re reading.
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The Next Wave of Work Management Software
Work management software is boring. Innovations are rare and you may think that no cool new vendors appeared in the last 5 years. Indeed, Asana is 10 years old, JIRA is everywhere and Trello was released in 2011. Are there…
Desperately seeking squircles
In a famous 1972 interview, Charles Eames answered a short sequence of fundamental questions about the nature of design. Answering the first question, he defined design as “a plan for arranging elements to accomplish a particular purpose.”
Paradigm shift in Design Education
There is now a vast discussion over how education, in general, must evolve . The world and its social and economic dynamics have changed, bringing a new level of complexity with it. Given the cyclical dynamic of societies, it is…
A Professional Development Framework for Design
Clearleft has been working on a professional development framework to share with the UX Design community. Here’s how, and why, we’ve arrived at something we hope is potentially valuable to you or your design team.
Microinteractions
The difference between a good product and a great one are its details: the microinteractions that make up the small moments inside and around features. How do you turn mute on? How do you know you have a new email…
The end of the celebrity designer
We’ve all seen it happen. A publicised product or feature launch that awards a single person credit for being the one who did it all. They’re deemed the creative brains behind a new product feature, rebrand, campaign, or an entirely…
Hacking user perception to make your websites and apps feel faster
CNN ran a survey that showed 70 percent of callers who are on hold in silence hang up within 60 seconds. Because the silence would make you think the line had perhaps disconnected, and the wait would actually feel longer….
Users aren’t adopting your product MVP. Now what?
You had an idea. You created a lean canvas. You worked on the pitch. You got in front of investors. You raised some money. You launched your product and you’re ready for the big payoff. You sacrificed a lot just…
The User Experience of Public Bathrooms
Public restrooms are plagued by unusable toilet-paper dispensers, difficult flushing controls, and poor stall-status visibility. Many of these issues can be addressed by following standard usability practices.