Creating a Human Experience with iBeacons
iBeacons are proximity based sensors… They are not just a reboot of marketing spam. The last thing we should be focusing on is bombarding users with unnecessary spam notifications. Apple Store iBeacon...
View ArticleEnvisioning the Wearable Fitness Workout
With the Apple Watch announcement tomorrow, designers and developers are theorizing how they can craft new wearable experiences to solve user challenges. Universal Mind set out to research how a...
View ArticleLocation Based Personalization: Designing for Privacy
Smartphone consumers expect personal experiences… they want their needs and desire to be understood without a hassle. They expect content to appear based on where they are and what they’re doing, and...
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Apps for Everyone Part 1: What are the Accessibility Features of iOS?
If you are a user experience designer (or a developer) creating an iOS experience and are focusing your efforts on persona definitions, take a moment to consider who you are not including. Make a list....
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Apps for Everyone Part 2: Strategies for Accessibility in iOS
As user experience designers and developers, it is our job to create experiences that are easy and enjoyable for our users, including users with impairments. To create iOS experiences that are...
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Why You Shouldn’t Make An Apple Watch App … At Least Not Until You Read This.
Imagine if a friend you haven’t seen in a while stops by unannounced and presents you with a neatly-packaged gift. It’s not your birthday, but hey, it’s a nice gesture so you open it up. The gift is...
View ArticleBetter Smart Home Experiences
Universal Mind’s VP of Experience Innovation, Joe Johnston, was featured on The Digital Media Zone’s show where he discussed HomeKit and the smart home. Joe talks about how designing user experiences...
View ArticleHealthcare and Technology: Is Usability Getting in Your Way?
Healthcare organizations have seen and had to implement a lot of changes to keep up with technology in the past few years – implementing electronic medical record systems to standardize data capture in...
View ArticleBridging Sketch and Style Guides: Designers and Developers Can Play Nice
As more digital designers embrace Bohemian Coding’s Sketch, new doors have opened for creating and maintaining style guides. Making the switch from Adobe Illustrator to Sketch can be an easy transition...
View ArticleThe Bottom Line. Note To Self on User Experience
Note To Self is a popular podcast on WNYC that focuses on “finding balance in the digital age.” The podcast’s host Manoush Zomorodi explores challenging topics like whether the internet is impacting...
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React.js: A Designer’s Perspective
As a designer, I feel that my designs do not live in a Photoshop comp or Sketch file — they come alive when they become code. With the rapid emergence of so many new JavaScript frameworks over the past...
View ArticleCollective Creativity: The Importance of Clients and Users Being A Part of...
“A study comparing the works of Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso suggests that their creativity was based on strikingly similar elements (Miller, 2001): both strived to understand the underlying...
View ArticleMaking Animations That Matter
The kind of processing power developed in our technology over the past few years is pretty impressive. The technology and platforms at our disposal are incredible to say the least, and it makes...
View ArticleThe Power and Perils of Empathy
A few weeks ago I was asked to speak at Creative Mornings in Denver on the topic of empathy. It’s a topic that I’ve written about in a book, talked about at conferences, and advocated the need for in...
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A Touch of Brilliance: Why 3D Touch Matters
We’ve been conditioned at birth to feel and touch our way through the world. It’s within that tactile human touch that we begin to catalog form, understand scale and weight, and decipher texture and...
View ArticleThe Three P’s of UX Design Research
UX Designers like to talk about the people who use their products or services: putting the user first, keeping the user in mind, solving REAL problems for REAL people. Yet for all of this kind of talk,...
View ArticleThe Importance of User Research in UX
As a designer, I’ll never stop evangelizing the importance of user research. We’ve talked a lot about the benefits of user research on our blog and we believe it’s a critical part of our process when...
View ArticleThe Age of Aggregation: Surviving Information Overload
It has been said ever since the time of the Library of Alexandria, mankind is producing more information than could ever be recorded and properly documented. However, for the longest time, we were...
View ArticleA Developer, a UX Specialist and a Project Manager Walk into a Bar
It’s a random Thursday night, and a small group of professionals is casually gathered for happy hour after work. As is often seen with any group of professionals in the same field who’ve come together...
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Document it Now, Thank Yourself Later
“I’m not writing it down to remember it later, I’m writing it down to remember it now.” Easily one of my favorite product taglines, it comes from Field Notes, a popular pocket memo book, and is printed...
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