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Great Mobile Design and Human Experience
So a couple days ago I had the opportunity to sit down and speak with Josh Guame Raster’s Senior UX Designer about his views on a great mobile design. if you missed that click this link. This time I spoke with Michael J Smith the CEO & Founder of Raster. Below he gives his insight on […]
What is a Great Mobile Design
During the week, I had the chance to speak with Josh Guame, the Senior UX Designer for Raster(above image). After my article last week on “Great Mobile Design” I decided to get his perspective on the subject. Terrell Turner: So what do you think is important in a great mobile design? Josh Guame: In my opinion […]
What Makes Great Mobile Design
A great mobile design should communicate 3 things to a user: 1) What is this? 2) What is the benefit for me? 3) What should I do next? “What is This?” It’s very important to have your title or logo/image that answer this question. Seems pretty basic, but it’s incredible how many apps can overlook […]
User Psyche in UX Design
User Psychology When a user is interacting with your design whether through a mobile app or website, what takes place in their mind is what we call user psychology. An effective UX design can affect the brain in many predictable ways. In the next post, I am going to explain to you the basics […]
Contrast, Depth, Size, and UX Design
Visual Weight Visual weight as a concept is fairly easy to perceive. Objects can look heavier than others in a design or layout. They catch your eyes and draw you in and this is very valuable to UX designers (UXD). It is important not to distract the user from their objective, but you want […]
The 4 Keys of Mobile UX!
With this titillating article, let us take a look at some of the key ingredients one must have to create a top notch UX. These keys will give you something to focus on when designing your UX. Psychology Despite what you may believe, user minds are very complex. This should be pretty easy to understand […]
UX for App Developers
What is UX? UX or user experience revolves around an individual’s emotions, behaviors and attitude about using a distinct product. Many people think a good User Experience is just about making the user happy, UX design or UXD is more than that. If not we would just toss in pictures of cats riding skateboards or […]
Future of Mobile Design
Mobile Development and Human Ex. Your phone is a pretty complex piece of machinery. It allows you to connect with those you care about, purchase products and keeps track of what’s important to you. Whether it’s asking Siri for the directions to the nearest coffee shop or keeping track of the distance you ran, […]
Design Thinking in Mobile Development
User research seems obvious, but most mobile developers do very little – if any. They rely entirely on their own assumptions, experience and hypotheses to progress directly into flowcharts, wireframes and mock-ups, only to find out later that their assumptions were wrong. This often leads to a substandard product and helps to explain why most […]
The Parallax Effect: Enhance Your Web Design
You know how trends from the 80’s make their big comebacks. Some of you might remember when this music called Disco was popular. In the last few years it’s made its comeback in the form of modern raves across the country that we now call Electronic Dance Music. Remember the video games in the 80’s […]