Category: design
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Apply For A Free Engagement Audit And Re-Design
Starting in a few weeks I will (again) be teaching a semester course at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, on “Designing for Engagement” in the Web and Digital Media Development department. In the class we use “real life” case studies as the students learn how to evaluate a product for usability and engagement, and then…
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How Do You Design Something So It Is Engaging?
We’re bringing our Design For Engagement class to San Francisco on July 30, 2014, and to Chicago on October 22, 2014. If you’re not sure what Design For Engagement is all about, here’s a short video that explains what it means to design for engagement, why care about engagement, and gives you a sneak peek at…
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Red Or Blue?: Research On Screen Color That May Surprise You
How does color affect our behavior when we are doing things online? Does it make a difference what the color background is? Does it depend on what we are reading or doing? Can you affect people’s decisions and behavior by changing the background color of a particular page or screen? Research by Ravi Mehta and…
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New Blog and Website Design
You may have noticed that our blog page looks different than usual. That’s because we’ve switched to a new theme. You may or may not have noticed that the menu bar at the blog has also changed. The only link is to the Weinschenk Institute website. We’ve not only changed the blog, but we’ve launched a…
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What’s The Best Way To Train User Experience Professionals?
What’s the best way to get knowledge and skills to be a user experience professional? Can you learn it all on the job? Is there a role for education and classes? If there is, what kind of classes? Should you try and get a college degree? (There are very few undergraduate schools, that actually have…
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5 Favorite Tips From Famous UX Experts
I attended and spoke at the Virtual conference from Rosenfeld Media today “31 Awesomely Practical UX Tips”. Each speaker presented their favorite user experience tips. I took one tip from each of the speakers as my favorite. Here they are: Steve Krug — Test your competition/comparables. Before you choose a design path or design idea,…
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Design For Engagement Live Video event
Join me on June 5th at 12 noon EDT for a FREE live video event via Livestream. Design for Engagement Live Website Critiques Wed Jun 5, 2013 12:00pm — 1:00pm EDT Come join me in a free live online video event. I’ll be taking website suggestions from the audience and then discussing–on the spot–how to…
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Should Technology Follow Human-To-Human Communication Rules?
What do we expect when we communicate with technology? Do we expect that the technology will communicate with us following the same rules as when we communicate with other people? The answer is yes, and I explain the implication of this in this video excerpt from my Design For Engagement online video course. Below the…
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Top 10 Best Usability, and UX Books You Should Read
Part of the work I do is to consult, mentor and teach how to design technology products so that they better fit how people work, think, and play. The teams I work with often ask me for my ideas on the best books to read in this field. So I thought I’d update my list…
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Get FREE Advice & Help Train The Next Generation
Would you like to get FREE advice on how to create a more engaging product, website, or app? Starting this January I will be teaching a semester course at the University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, on “Designing for Engagement” in the Web and Digital Media Development department. In the class we will be using “real…
