Most applications are designed to help people get their job done, so the success of an application often depends largely on how people use it. Many application development teams falsely assume that ...

User interface (UI) design is a very well-known term, but information architecture (IA) is not. Yet, both are indispensable components of user experience (UX) design, and they are intertwined. This ...

Creative Director of ArtVersion, a Chicago design consultancy. We craft ideal user experiences for the world’s most innovative companies. When one ponders the idea of web and mobile interface designs, ...

With Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons From Science Fiction, authors Nathan Sherdoff and Christopher Noessel give us an in depth survey of the best ideas that sci-fi movies have to offer for ...

Software has never looked cooler, but user interface design and user experience have taken a sharp turn for the worse. When we first got the personal computer, we didn’t worry much about how things ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Creating an impactful design can be subjective. Personal preference may lead one person to ...

Great user interface design is invisible. But when bad designs pop up, it can complicate an otherwise simple process. User Inyerface, a short web game created by Bagaar, is an example of what happens ...

When I noticed the scrollbars were missing on my smartphone, I didn’t care all that much. When I’m reading an article on a tiny screen, I don’t want anything to distract me from the text. User ...

Jason Kottke made a graphic showing how YouTube's progress bar has changed in the 20 years since it launched in 2005. I don't think I even noticed the latest, and if I were asked to recreate it from ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Edward Tenner USER FRIENDLY How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work and ...