Design & Interactive Experiences

The web is filled with content designed for Google, not humans.

Adding a little friction to experiences can help users slow down in those moments they may need to

View this film without Audio Descriptions: https://www.youtu.be/XB4cjbYywqgWe believe that technology should be accessible to everyone — including Sady Pauls...

At Apple, we believe accessibility is a human right. Innovative features like Door Detection, Sound Recognition, Voice Control, and more are designed to let ...

As the GenAI hype dust settles — it’s time to start thinking about usability and the opportunity it presents to address declining…

An analysis of Uncertainty Avoidance and Amazon’s website in various countries

A talk at beyond tellerrand // BERLIN 2018Build Bridges, Not Walls – Design for Users Across CulturesAs Internet access expands to the far corners of the wor...

Please select a country in the dropdown menu below to see the values for the 6 dimensions. After a first country has been selected, a second and even a third country can be chosen to be able to see a comparison of their scores.

Deep dive into the Payless “Palessi” experiment to understand the psychology of UX and Design

Documentation in web design is usual a secondary goal. But in board game design, it’s necessary. What documentation tips here can we apply?

Cellphone use is banned, but conductors say their work radios have been failing for years.

Vegetable carts, flower shops, mom-and-pop stores: Small speakers that read out digital payment receipts are making fintech companies big money.

For farmers in Senegal who struggle to read or write, sending voice notes has unlocked a new world of collaboration across the industry.

All 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not Included warning label – making cars the worst category of products that we have ever reviewed

Common gaming elements, like guilds and battle passes, can manipulate players into spending more time and money in-game than intended.

It’s time to reconsider legacy UX patterns and put gestural interactions in the limelight in the age of spatial computing.

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From pixels to principles, from code to conscience

The Three Mile Island accident of 1979 was a partial nuclear meltdown in Pennsylvania. The event spread fear and panic and sent many…

You can watch the video version of my review here. Background Diablo has historically been one of those games blind gamers have gravitated toward for many reasons. First being its top down isometri…

...Diablo Accessibility Article: https://rossminor.com/2023/06/08/diablo-iv-blind-accessibility-review/Send accessibility feedback to Blizzard: https://us.ba...

In this video, Sergey and Charles cover what is known about user experience design for the brave new world of Language User Interfaces (LUIs) that are enable...

By re-imagining the classic “I’m a Mac… and I’m a PC” commercials, Jonathon Colman and Erin Hawk from REI help attendees learn how two individual disciplines — User Experience design (UX) and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) — can work together to help customers succeed in their goals and, in so doing, redevelop their relationship while growing their business.

Content strategists at Facebook plan, structure, and create content for more than a billion people. But they’re not writers or content marketers—they’re interaction designers, information architects, and UX practitioners. They design and build product experiences that are simple, straightforward and human.

Now that we have the tools to superpower our layouts, we can start to reimagine how we approach art direction and design on the web. By taking advantage of technologies, some new and some overlooked, we can create a progressively-enhanced design that’s powered by feature queries; one that’s localized for an increasingly global audience. In this talk drawn from her work for Slack and other properties, Mina walks through her process for enhancing design and shows how little changes lead to big design payoffs.

Today, Voice User Interface is a significant part of a tech roadmap for businesses. Irrespective of the industry, businesses are realizing the benefits that VUIs bring in and are cashing in upon them. Given the complexity, designing a VUI requires know-how and experience with computer science, human psychology, and linguistics, along with cognitive learning.