Persuasive design is a popular topic in user experience these days. In fact, our posts on how your coffee mug [...]
The Psychology of Persuasion
Vicky Teinaki
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An England-based Kiwi, Vicky is doing a PhD at Northumbria University into how designers can better talk about touch and products. When not researching or keeping Johnny Holland running, she does the odd bit of web development, pretends her TV licence money goes only to Steven Moffatt shows, and tweets prolifically about all of the above as @vickytnz.
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[...]
All Your 2012 Trends Are Belong to Us
As we swing into a new year, all the ‘best of 2011′ posts become ‘what’s going to happen in 2012′.
Municipal Devices
This post by John Tolva is heralded as “critical reading if you have any interest whatsoever in networked cities and[...]
Digital Tech and Our Lives: Portigal Consulting’s Omni Project
Portigal Consulting has published a 15-part (and counting) blog series[...]
Enchanted objects: Designing Products that Express Emotion
If you’re interested in design and emotion, you’ll want to take a look at the upcoming series of posts from [...]
EuroIA 2011: Day Two
Day two of EuroIA had speakers hailing from Italy (actually they were pretty well represented) to South Africa. And amongst [...]