: From the day that babies are brought home and cradled in their pink or blue blankets, implications have been made about gender and color. While there are no concrete rules about what colors are exclusively feminine or masculine, there have been studies conducted over the past seven decades that draw some generalizations. Let’s take [...]

: We pour over analytics, conduct ethnographic studies, and interview users in order to understand the demographics, goals, and tasks of the people using our product. We create personas, write scenarios, and list use cases. And so we should; understanding who our users are and what they want to achieve is foundational to our job [...]

: There are many things in the world of web-development that are contentious, controversial, or provoke a passionate response. Some people’s feathers are easily ruffled by talk of legacy IE support, some by whether vendor extensions to CSS are a good idea; for some, you only have to mention HTML5 to get a tirade of [...]

: Trying to convince a client not to squeeze everything above the fold? Is your whitespace filling up fast? We’ve collected a variety of articles on some sticky web subjects that might just help you make your point. : http://weenudge.com/

: While considering the influence of print on web design, we’ll look at the issue of how usability can potentially be impacted by some potential uses of CSS columns. : http://blog.echoenduring.com/2011/03/16/usability-and-css3-columns/

: This post might sound like an opinionated rant, so I apologize up front for that. But sometimes I write stuff because I get annoyed at how quick people are to jump on bandwagons and follow trends, and it often comes out sounding a little harsh. Even I’ve been guilty of following trends at times, [...]

: A Silicon Valley investment fund seeking startups founded by designers hopes to spawn a new breed of tech companies. : http://www.technologyreview.com/business/37449/?a=f

: The UX field is booming. It seems like the number of user experience practitioners has doubled in the last year — from newbies who’ve just entered the workforce, to mid-career changes, to folks who’ve been doing this all along but finally found out what to call themselves. : http://whitneyhess.com/blog/2011/04/23/youre-not-a-user-experience-designer-if/

: A few weeks ago Jin Yang got in touch with me regarding potential UX Exchange design work. UX Exchange is a Q&A site in the Stack Exchange (SE) family of websites, the most famous of which you probably know: Stack Overflow. Every SE site has its own look and feel, and as the UX [...]

: There is a well-known saying by Benjamin Franklin that states, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” If we take that lens to interaction design, we could say: In design nothing can be said to be certain, except eye candy and following new trends. The screens are [...]