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  • Dawn of the living services

    In future, we won’t just access online services through computers and mobiles – our homes, and even our bodies, will be networked, creating new challenges for UX designers, predicts Louisa Heinrich
    By Louisa Heinrich on

  • The pro’s guide to user research

    Stuart Pill from TH_NK guides you through how to collect objective insights using ethnographic research
    By Stuart Pill on

  • Hover is dead, long live hover

    Hover is a useful UI element for desktop users, but it doesn't work with touch devices. How can we prevent losing it?
    By Joe Leech on

  • Five killer ways to tell a story

    Letting users know who you are and what your site is for is important – and is often overlooked, reckons Gene Crawford
    By Gene Crawford on

  • Hacking the brain

    User experience is often considered a dark art. Here Richard Shepherd argues that a healthy curiosity in human nature helps us create delightful sites and apps
    By Richard Shepherd on

  • Usability testing myths

    Rolf Molich debunks some commonly held misconceptions about the efficacy and appropriate application of usability testing
    By Rolf Molich on

  • Interaction design lessons from sci-fi: Visual interfaces

    Make it so is a book for interface designers interested in understanding sci-fi's role in design history and using sci-fi interfaces in their own work. Here we present an exclusive excerpt on visual design, with a focus on typography
    By Chris Noessel And Nathan Shedroff on | 2 comments

  • Five killer ways to use onboarding

    Get your users to complete tasks and fill in information by using good design, says Gene Crawford
    By Gene Crawford on

  • 10 UX things we remembered in 2012

    TH_NK's senior experience designers Stuart Pill and Gavin Wye present 10 key takeaways from 50 hours of usability testing
    By Stuart Pill And Gavin Wye on

  • UX design for startups: get it optimised

    In the last of his articles on UX design for startups, UXPin CEO Marcin Treder explains why launching a new feature isn't a cause to celebrate, but an opportunity to optimise your product
    By Marcin Treder on

  • Big question: what skills does a digital designer need in 2013?

    There seems to be a perception (or maybe even tensions) that designers should be experts in everything. You need to be an expert in UX and visual design. The flipside is: should these things be kept as separate roles?
    By Tanya Combrinck on

  • Big question: are decorative design elements going out of style?

    Some say Apple’s interfaces that look like real-world objects are in bad taste, while Microsoft’s Windows 8 UI (formerly Metro) is lauded for making content the star. We asked our experts their views on skeuomorphic design
    By Tanya Combrinck on
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