Fluency, cognitive choreography and designing better workflows If you’ve read part 1, you’ll know all about what Fluency is and how understanding it subtly, but importantly, changes the way you think about usability. Now I’d like to take this one step further by introducing a couple of other concepts from Kahneman’s book on...
Designing for fluency – Part 1
Design, Experience, Interaction Design, Opinion, UXFrom the new psychology of Fluency to useability, beauty and beyond Having had a background in (proper) psychology, before emerging as a designer, I’ve often been dubious about the value of this fascinating ‘science of the mind’ for the practice of design. Every now and then, you’ll hear some strained...
Sketchy behaviour at Google
Design, Experience, Interaction Design, UXJason and Sam visited the big G on Tuesday to run a workshop building on the hugely popular Sketching Interfaces session they did at Interactions12 (Dublin) and HCID (London), earlier this year. Even though the Googlers rated themselves a mixed bunch, in terms of confidence and ability, there was some impressive sketch...
Imagine the form of the future
Design, Development/Tech, Innovation, Interaction Design, Prototype, UXIf you had a time machine (and didn’t have anything better to do with it) and travelled back to say, 1997 and brought back a bunch of forms from webpages and applications, and then compared them to the forms we’re using today, it might be difficult to tell the 2...
Musical interactions – part 2
Design, Opinion, UXI was really (pleasantly) surprised to get so much audience participation and questioning after my talk at the Digital Brand Jam event at Brunel - especially after I shot down on one of the questions around music industry, and how easy it was to distribute these days. The questions were...
Musical Interactions – part 1
Design, Interaction Design, Music Technology, Opinion, Physical Computing, Presentation, UXI’ve known for a while about the Strategy and Innovation MA that John Boult runs at Brunel, and as well as collaborating with John as part of Big Potatoes, he recently asked me to come and talk at the Digital Brand Jam event at Brunel (30th of May 2012). When he learned that I was...
When it’s all a little too perfect
Design, Opinion, UXAt some level almost every presentation we make is an interpretation of the facts that we are presenting. Even when we present all of the data, the way in which we present it will usually betray some level of bias, and certainly when we begin to abstract data we exclude...
The NHS needs an Informatics care plan with design at the heart
Design, Opinion, UX-- The below is a short article recently written in response to a Westminster Health Forum event on 22nd May 2012 -- Recent health informatics events including May’s Westminster Health Forum have reinforced the challenges in connecting grand visions of simplicity, transparency, security, accuracy and portability with the complexity of...
Whichever way the wind is blowing
Experience, OpinionWhen it comes down to flexibility and adaptability, the British wardrobe is a thing of beauty. Not for us the predictable lightweight sunshine wardrobe of the Californian, confident that every day will be as warm and sunny as the last. Nor the clear cut seasonal wardrobe of the Scandinavian; plenty...
10 ways to improve your relationship with your developer
Collaboration, Development/Tech, Experience, Interaction Design, Top tips, UXWhatever project we’re working on, our process starts and ends with deep collaboration - with our clients, with end users, and with each other. Our designers and front-end developers work closely together from the outset, to ensure that they maximise the technology opportunities that exist, and that what is designed can actually be...