Dublin — and even its Lord Mayor — welcomed a record 750 attendees to the opening of Interaction 12. The day would unfold with[...]
Vicky Teinaki
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Vicky Teinaki is a Kiwi turned English PhD student at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne, where she's investigating how designers can better talk about touch and products. When not researching or keeping Johnny Holland running, she tries to keep her web design and dev skills up to date, and tweets prolifically as @vickytnz.
What Happens If You Design Your House Like a Web App?
Yelp co-founder and the father of RSS David Galbraith was formerly trained as an architect, and so decided to see if he could combine his[...]
Got Ergopsychonomics?
Apparently ergopyschonomics is the buzzword of 2012. Or psychonomics. The jury is still out.
Pavlov’s Gamers?
We know that social games are a great way to kill time (whether you have that time to kill or not), and are huge business. But can they be[...]
100 User Experience Design & Evaluation Methods for Your Toolkit
Chauncy Wilson of Autodesk is rolling out a series of blog posts with 100(!) methods for UX.
The Psychology of Persuasion
Persuasive design is a popular topic in user experience these days. In fact, our posts on how your coffee mug [...]
People Go Ga-Ga for Baby Faces, Even on Machines
Ever notice how people just go silly around babies? A recent study shows that not only are we programmed by evolution to respond to baby[...]
10 Tips for Mobile Usability Testing
Trent Mankelow of Optimal Usability gives a handy set of tried-and-tested hints for mobile usability testing.
Affective Computing
Anyone who can remember what it was like to have a computer before the iMac will know, emotion can have a huge impact on computers. That's[...]
What 8-Bit Video Games Can Teach Us About Design And UX
It's frightening to think that many kids finishing high school may have never played an 8-bit video game. For the rest of us–who now feel[...]