UX Design : user experience and design thinking

You don't need to be a trained psychotherapist to conduct effective usability sessions, but it always helps to refine the art of understanding human behavior and intentions when looking to improve the customer experience.

In this article we’ll provide guidance on how to deal with some of the problems that exist with Android, and we'll also show you how to start designing your first great Android app.

Learn how IDEO uses Agile Development, gathers user insights, and their tips on prototyping digital projects with clients.

To help make your next user research endeavor more useful, here are five common mistakes to avoid.

Search is a conversation: a dialogue between user and system that can be every bit as rich as human conversation. Like human dialogue, it is bidirectional: on one side is the user with their information need, which they articulate as some form of query.

Editor's Note: David Lieb is co-founder and CEO of Bump, creators of the popular app that lets people share contact information, photos, and other content by bumping their phones together. Bump has been downloaded more than 130 million times.

4 articles on design process

In the modern software development environment, UX and agile practitioners are becoming part of a growing culture defining the way online products and services are being delivered.

So three cheers for design thinking, for those practitioners and schools that are using these techniques, that encourage breakthrough thinking, and that encourage asking the stupid question. Not all schools teach design thinking in this way. Not all students learn it. Not all designers practice it. But for those who do teach, learn and practice all of the techniques of design thinking, it can be transformative.

When we first wrote about Polar, an addictive app that invites you to make and take “this or that”-style quizzes, we called it “an object lesson in mobile design done very, very right.” Luke Wroblewski, the mobile-first design evangelist behind...

LukeW Ideation + Design provides resources for mobile and Web product design and strategy including presentations, workshops, articles, books and more on usability, interaction design and visual design.

“Through this examination of both user research methods that have achieved widespread adoption and others that have failed to catch on, we can assess what characteristics make any method of research useful and, therefore, popular.”

This article wants to help you understand the strengths and weaknesses of infinite scrolling.

Spend a significant amount of time in the iOS app business, and chances are good that you'll hear "the HIG" thrown around. Short for Human Interface Guidelines, this Apple document is a wide-ranging attempt to outline best practices for app experience on the platform.

An extensive list of useful and inspirational podcasts for designers and developers.

Dieter Rams: ten principles for good design

This article describes and gives you a tool called the Rainbow Spreadsheet. With it, you will be able to collaboratively observe UX research sessions with team members (or clients).

This case study looks at a pragmatic approach to responsive Web design (RWD), on the basis of a real-world case study, which tried to find the right balance between server-side and client-side techniques and implementation.