Stop doing ego-centered design and do this instead
August 21, 2018
Summary: If your best intentions are not on meeting business and user goals, you should take a hard look in the mirror and re-callibrate. Ego-centered design
Frank Spillers
About Author
Frank Spillers is a Design Leader and UX/Service Design veteran. He founded an award-winning UX consultancy in 2001 (Experience Dynamics), working with Nike, Intel, World Bank, Microsoft, City of New York, Global Disability Rights Now, Greater London Authority, and more. He spent 25 years training hundreds of teams privately and another seven years delivering custom trainings for Interaction Design Foundation, the world’s largest design school attended by teams from Adobe, IBM, T-Mobile, Philips, and the UN.
Frank is a subject matter expert in: Service Design, UX management, Inclusive Design, Service Design, AI, VR/AR UX, Accessibility, Emotion Design, mobile UX, and cross-cultural design (localization UX).
Frank is an independent consultant and provides training and mentoring to Google, Harvard, Accenture, Dell, Mercedes Benz, Zappos, Netflix, FedEx, and more at his UX Inner Circle: www.uxinnercircle.com
Posts Added by Author
Accessibility for VR: How to design so blind users are not left out of VR
August 15, 2018
Summary: Designing for VR must include users with disabilities. If you are working on AR or VR content, the accessibility of your app or piece should
Avoid recruiting “fake users”
August 10, 2018
Summary: UX efforts should improve the quality of data and informed decision-making by making sure feedback is coming from the right users. Clean user recruiting
Ethnographic interviews for Accessibility?
July 25, 2018
Summary: Ethnography, a core UX technique for intercepting user needs and issues, is essential for getting beyond the guidelines-following approach to Accessibility. Even accessibility testing, while
What is temporal UX or time design?
July 18, 2018
Summary: What is temporal UX or time design? Time plays a factor in UX strategy to help move users along or manage their expectations. Temporal
How compliant is ‘good enough’ for Web Accessibility?
July 6, 2018
Summary: Accessibility compliance is governed by laws (Section 508 of the ADA in the US and the soon to be ratified European Accessibility Act). Web developers
How Your Team Defines “User research” can hurt your UX
July 5, 2018
Summary: ‘User research’ has become a catch-all phrase to mean user testing in many organizations. User research has two main activities: usability testing and field studies.
The Importance of Storytelling for Presence in AR UX
May 28, 2018
Summary: Storytelling delivers good UX in augmented or virtual environments. Storytelling evokes emotion, captures attention, and guides and directs user interaction. One of it’s primary
Why Flat Design has become an industry standard
May 15, 2018
Summary: Flat Design Origins reveals its strengths and weaknesses. Flat Design comes with negatives and positives. Its main challenge is “correctly” implementing Flat standards that
“Less is More” is Key in AR/VR UX
May 9, 2018
Summary: UX Design strategies for Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR) run the risk of overloading users with too much input: complex menus, unclear or
Flat Design pitfalls- skip these 5 most common mistakes
April 23, 2018
Summary: Flat Design has become an industry-standard approach to UI/UX Design with Microsoft, Apple and Google all backing Flat UI styles. Flat Design’s minimalism aims to
Feature rich UI: What’s your dumb-phone strategy?
March 2, 2018
Summary: Feature-rich UI’s run the risk of doing too much and being difficult for users to discover. The cure is to remove features and replace them