UX Power Up: Floating Menus

By Admin User

on August 11, 2014 - 3:40pm

Mobile user experience inherently constrains what a user can do while providing  the opportunity for context intensive navigation. Floating menus or contextual menus are a great way to serve up sub-tasks just in time, giving users choices without disrupting tasks.

In this week's UX Power Up, Frank covers Floating Menus for improving mobile user experience.

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Floating  Menus

Hey Frank Spillers here.  Welcome to this weeks UX Power Up!

Continuing on our Mobile UX theme.. I wanted to talk to you today about Floating Menus.

Floating menus are one of these interface design techniques that you can use in mobile that can help your users perform an action in context.  The idea with that is that people don't have to leave a screen or a flow - they don't have to look at another menu or toolbar.  It just kind of like facilitates that smooth interaction.

UX Power Up: Novel UI's

By Frank Spillers

on August 4, 2014 - 10:06am

Typically we approach usability with a conservative mindset- meaning we don't want to disrupt user patterns and expectations. This is mainly because designers have shown us that they can overwhelm users with whiz-bang designs. But on mobile is this true? In this week's UX Power Up, Frank gets into novelty and the opportunities afforded by mobile to bring COOL to design.

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Novel UI’s - Mobile UX

UX Power Up: Mobile First

By Frank Spillers

on July 25, 2014 - 7:15pm

User experience design has been profoundly effected by mobile. One of the keys to approaching any design is to take what mobile guru Luke W called "Mobile First". In this week's UX Power Up, Frank discusses the strategy, what it means and why you should adopt it immediately!

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Mobile First (Mobile UX)

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

So today we're talking about an approach to mobile design, that turns out to be an approach to all design. That's called Mobile First.  Mobile First is one of these things that, when you are designing your mobile site or app, you say to yourself - Okay, what's the design based on?  2 things.  First the resolution, and 2nd the context.  

UX Power Up: Skeuomorphism

By Frank Spillers

on July 11, 2014 - 1:42pm

Skeuomorphism is the visual art of mimicking real world metaphors in an interface...a dial looks like a physical dial, a sales receipt looks like an actual receipt etc. Apple is most notorius for promoting the design technique then suppressing it lately. Should you too?

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Skeuomorphism 

Frank Spillers, founder of Experience Dynamics, and it's time for week's UX Power Up.  Today, in mobile UX I'd like to talk about the term skeuomorphism.  It's a mouth full, and maybe you've seen it or heard it in the news recently.  Apple is a company that's known to put out a lot of skeuomorphic designs.  And these are designs that use visual metaphors that mimic real world objects, like a leather or a wood kind of grain, something like that.  

UX Power Up: Visual Hierarchy for Mobile

By Frank Spillers

on July 8, 2014 - 8:15am

In graphic design the concept of visual hierarchy indicates priority of visual items on a page. But how does this play out in mobile sites or applications? In this week's UX Power Up Frank shares examples from two mobile apps to illustrate mobile visual hierarchy standards. 

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Visual Hierarchy (Mobile UX)

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

UX Power Up: Wizards

By Frank Spillers

on June 19, 2014 - 8:46am

Wizards are those dialogs or flows that walk a user through to the next step. The idea has a good intent: help the user by holding their hand from A to B. But are they always warranted? Can they get in the way of a good user experience? In this weeks UX Power Up Frank discusses wizard interface pros and cons. 

Please post your comments below, we would love to hear your thoughts.

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Wizards

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

UX Power Up: Affordances

By Frank Spillers

on May 30, 2014 - 10:22am

Affordances

Affordances are at the heart of every call to action. How do your users know to click, press, swipe, tap or un-box a feature? One of the ways is an element in your design that screams "use me this way". In this episode, Frank talks more about how important affordances are in your design.  Please post your comments below, we would love to hear your thoughts.

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Affordances

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

UX Power Up: Promotional UX

By Frank Spillers

on May 20, 2014 - 10:36am

How do you design in up sells, cross-sells and other types of promotions? Pure user experience (UX) folks would say leave em out, but marketers would cringe. What's the right answer? Tune in to this week's UX Power Up and find out!

Please post your comments below, we would love to hear your thoughts.

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Promotional UX

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

Now, today's topic is on Promotional UX.  Wait a minute... you think I'm talking about promoting UX, but I'm not. I'm actually talking about you doing promotions, up sells, cross sells, advertising, and that sort of thing on your website or your web application.  

UX Power Up: Teasing Interaction

By Frank Spillers

on May 5, 2014 - 4:04pm

How do you help users without helping them? Teasing interactions is one way many apps and sites are using.

In this week's UX Power Up, Frank goes into one of his essential techniques, fast becoming a foundational approach to introducing users to features in a subtle way. Please post your comments below, we would love to hear your thoughts.

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

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.

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