UX Power Up: Social Navigation

By Frank Spillers

on April 11, 2014 - 5:20pm

Social navigation is ubiquitous, a vast majority of sites, web applications, mobile apps and even serious B2B applications use social features. So why is social navigation so important?

In this week's UX Power Up, Frank defines social navigation, shares why he loves it, and explains its very practical and vital role in user experience. Please post your comments below, we would love to hear your thoughts.

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Social Navigation 

Frank Spillers, founder of Experience Dynamics, and it’s time for this week’s UX Power Up.

UX Power Up: Labeling Systems

By Frank Spillers

on March 17, 2014 - 9:26am

Labeling systems are one of the easiest things to change and one of the most difficult things to get right. Why? Because content is the cheapest and most effective interface. The difficulty lies in the semantics (meaning) that users ascribe to certain words.  

In this week's UX Power Up, Frank shares 3 important labeling areas that can help improve your usability. Please post your comments below, we would love to hear your thoughts.

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Labeling Systems

Frank Spillers, founder of Experience Dynamics, and it’s time for this week’s UX Power Up.

Today we’re talking about Labeling Systems which falls into the category of content usability.

UX Power Up: Agile UX

By Frank Spillers

on February 26, 2014 - 11:29am

Agile and UX are two processes the many organizations are ramping up on. Agile seems to be more established these days, and the question is how should UX (user experience) play with Agile?

In this week's UX Power Up, Frank shares some ways to think differently about antagonisms and how to get the most out of a cooperative relationship or what he calls the need for Agile + UX to unite. Please post your comments below, we would love to hear your thoughts.

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Agile UX

Frank Spillers, founder of Experience Dynamics, and it’s time for this week’s UX Power Up.

UX Power Up: User Advocacy

By Frank Spillers

on February 14, 2014 - 9:47am

User advocacy is at the heart of usability, user experience and Design Thinking. User advocacy is a core design decision making tool because it utilizes empathy. Advocating for user needs is empathy demonstrated. 

In this week's UX Power Up, Frank shares some tricks for remaining a strong user advocate in your language and thinking. Please post your comments below, we would love to hear your thoughts.

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User Advocacy

Frank Spillers, founder of Experience Dynamics, and it’s time for this week’s UX Power Up.

Hey Twitter, your #UX sucks: Experience Irony (revisited)

By Frank Spillers

on February 10, 2014 - 6:35pm
twitter ux, UX

Twitter's active users have been dropping lately, and it's current CEO Dick Costolo, vowed last week that it's time to improve the user experience (UX).

Shiela Shayon writes:

Turns out, the site that introduced the ostensibly simple 140-character paradigm is confusing to new users. "We don't think we need to change anything about the core characteristics of our platform," added Costolo, "We just need to make Twitter a better Twitter."

Did you move your user's cheese? All you need to know about 'Positional Memory'

By Frank Spillers

on February 6, 2014 - 8:24pm
mobile ux

Do you ever move your apps around on your smartphone? Or do you ever move furniture around in your living room? I didn't think so! This post explores why things like to stay in place and why keeping them in place is so important for good user experience.

The Cheese Test

Try moving your apps around on your phone or icons on your desktop (especially if you are comfortable with them in a certain place). If you don't mind, you can handle having your cheese moved (to borrow from that book that was the rage years ago). Most users don't want their cheese moved. Ever. That's why defaults rule in interface design strategy.

UX Power Up: Responsive Design

By Frank Spillers

on January 31, 2014 - 2:18pm

Responsive web design is becoming a high priority. It's not right for all designs but it's also becoming a default on the Web.

In this week's UX Power Up, Frank makes the case for responsive design.  

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Responsive Design

Frank Spillers, founder of Experience Dynamics - and it’s time for this week’s UX Power Up.

UX Power Up: Need for Speed

By Frank Spillers

on January 20, 2014 - 2:11pm

Fast loading websites and mobile apps are critical to a good user experience. Speed is key to keeping users in a good mood, and it is critical to customer conversion in ecommerce. 

In this week's UX Power Up, Frank covers the topic of speed, and what constitutes best practice for hitting the ideal load time. We'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments below! 

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NEED FOR SPEED

Franks Spillers here, founder of Experience Dynamics - and it's time for this week's UX Power Up.

In this session, I'd like to talk about the Need For Speed.

UX Power Up: Social Interfaces

By Frank Spillers

on January 20, 2014 - 1:04pm

Social interfaces augment existing social behavior. They aid how we leverage the power of the group in a design. Sometimes they are subtle, and sometimes the whole experience is defined by social behavior.

In this week's UX Power Up, Frank discusses social interfaces and the new wave of social user experience coming to an interface near you… We'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments below! 

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Social Interfaces

Frank Spillers, founder of Experience Dynamics and it's time for this weeks UX Power Up.

UX Power Up: Discoverability

By Frank Spillers

on December 9, 2013 - 5:58pm

Discoverability describes how users discover your features and functionality. Since most users ignore what’s in a design, how can you point out important content or features to your users? How can you help users discover that a feature even exists?

In this week's UX Power Up, Frank covers discoverability, a problem that every design has to deal with. We'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments below! 

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Hi, Frank Spillers, founder of Experience Dynamics, and it’s time for this week’s UX Power Up.

Today we’re talking about the topic of Discoverability.  Just like the way the word sounds, it’s how able your users are to discover: content, features, functionality, and even the controls as they go through and use your website or web application.

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