Portfolio presentations are an opportunity for designers to showcase their design process and problem-solving skills to potential employers, peer groups, and more. Over the years, there's been a ...
If you get the call when both your parents and children need help with their computers, you're part of GENERATION IT (thanks Sam ). Jokes aside, as technology gets more layers there's increasing ...
Using software can be hard. All those form fields, menu items, interactive widgets and more... continually changing . So why make it harder for people by strewing all these user interface element...
Lots of things make startups hard... building teams, shipping products, finding customers, earning revenue... to name just a few. But when there's an endless list of things to do what takes prior...
In his AI Speaker Series presentation at Sutter Hill Ventures, Mark Horowitz discussed the current state of hardware chip design and scaling along with significant challenges as Moore's law comes...
In his Three Conversations in Design presentation at Convey UX Andrew Hogan shared trends in user experience jobs, scaling, and the impact of AI on designers. Here are my notes from his talk: Be...
In her Building Expertise into Generated Conversations talk at Convey UX Susan Hura talked about the impact of Large Language Models on the role and process of conversational designers. Here are...
In her Good UX is Good Business talk at Convey UX Amy Lanfear outlined the journey the Microsoft Security team's joint UX group underwent to make their business impact clear to executives. Here ...
We've all heard the adage the "the future is here it just isn't evenly distributed yet. With rapid advancement in multi-modal AI models and headset computing, we're at a stage where the future is...
Mark Twain is believed to have said "There is no such thing as an original idea." The implication is that, as a species, we are constantly building on what came before us: inspired and driven by ...
Like many technology nerds out there, I got to explore Apple's new Vision Pro headset and Spatial Computing operating system first hand this weekend. Instead of a product review (there's plenty o...
In the context of a software interface, things that work the same should mostly look the same. This isn't to say consistency always wins in UI design but common visual treatments teach people how...
When things are going well, it's natural to feel comfortable. The better things go... the more comfortable you get. This isn't just true for humans it applies to companies as well. But in both ca...
In this two minute video from my How AI Ate My Website talk, I outline how to automatically answer people's design questions using the content from Web site using embeddings. I also explain why t...
As Dave Fore once said : "features are the currency of software development and marketing." Spend time in any software company and you'll begin to echo that sentiment. But there's consequences......