User interface (UI) design is a very well-known term, but information architecture (IA) is not. Yet, both are indispensable components of user experience (UX) design, and they are intertwined. This ...

Most applications are designed to help people get their job done, so the success of an application often depends largely on how people use it. Many application development teams falsely assume that ...

Balancing the fine principles that govern user interface with superior functionality is an art form in itself. Just like a writer must trim the fat off sentences for clarity, so too must a web ...

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When I noticed the scrollbars were missing on my smartphone, I didn’t care all that much. When I’m reading an article on a tiny screen, I don’t want anything to distract me from the text. User ...

Software has never looked cooler, but user interface design and user experience have taken a sharp turn for the worse. When we first got the personal computer, we didn’t worry much about how things ...

Loretta Staples, a U.I. designer in the 1980s and ’90s, had a front-row seat to the rise of personal computing. By Nika Simovich Fisher When Apple introduced the Macintosh in 1984, it was the dawn of ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Edward Tenner USER FRIENDLY How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work and ...