There’s no magic equation to superb interface design, but when you see it, you know. Most can recall a moment when they encountered brilliant UI (user interface). Maybe it was the first time your tiny ...

The relationship between game and player is a two way street. The information a game presents, and how the player interacts with that information, are key components in making gameplay an intuitive, ...

With Make It So: Interaction Design Lessons From Science Fiction, authors Nathan Sherdoff and Christopher Noessel give us an in depth survey of the best ideas that sci-fi movies have to offer for ...

The term summative usability testing recently entered the lexicon of medical device manufacturers as they faced the new requirement to validate their product's suitability for its intended use.

Great user interface design is invisible. But when bad designs pop up, it can complicate an otherwise simple process. User Inyerface, a short web game created by Bagaar, is an example of what happens ...

As we all know, design is more than just pushing pixels. Clever designers think about design patterns while they design. A design pattern is a reusable solution to a common recurring problem that your ...

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 ...

A new piece of bipartisan legislation aims to protect people from one of the sketchiest practices that tech companies employ to subtly influence user behavior. Known as “dark patterns,” this dodgy ...