How a wine glass instructs us about UX Design
December 28, 2017
Summary: The size of a wine glass has increased sevenfold in the past 300 years. The increase in wine consumption is speculated to follow this 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
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Learn this important Visual Design lesson from Google
December 27, 2017
Summary: Google’s Material Design language reinforces one of the most valuable principles of graphic design, visual design, and user experience. It is to provide design
Webinar: 7 Story-telling Musts for VR/AR
December 20, 2017
News update: We’ve created a new UX training program for mastering VR/AR UX Design. Over 2018, you will see more webinars announced in our Experience
3 Important Distinctions for Visual Design vs UX Design
November 22, 2017
Image above cheat sheet: “Designers can create the right pathways, but users will do things their way. Knowing what those habits are– will help you add
UX certification- is it worth it?
November 9, 2017
Summary: Ultimately, ‘UX certification- is it worth it?’ is a question for individual designers or researchers to answer. For teams or corporate UX groups, certification
5 Steps for aligning persona research to design
October 8, 2017
Summary: Personas have very practical value, not only as tools to unify organizational understanding of the end-user, but also as specific instruments to make your designs
18 Musts for E-commerce Usability [VIDEO]
August 6, 2017
Summary:Welcome to a 60-minute video recording of an insightful webinar hosted by Frank Spillers, the Chief Experience Officer at Experience Dynamics. Learn e-commerce usability,
What’s Wrong with Focus Groups and How to Fix Them
July 31, 2017
Summary: Focus groups are innapropriate as a research technique to gather usability or user experience requirements. This is due to the fact they are opinion driven and not behavior
The Power of Rapid Ethnography
June 28, 2017
Summary: The Power of Rapid Ethnography is in its potential to quickly help you understand your user’s problem space. Before jumping to solutions, understanding the
Part 2- Managing Outside-In Design orgs
May 26, 2017
Summary: Outside-in design organizations live and breathe user experience. The main differentiator between a technology-driven organization and a Human-Centered design approach is in decision-making. With Outside-In,
Part 1- Managing Outside-In Design orgs
April 26, 2017
Summary: Outside-In design organizations live and breathe user experience. The main differentiator between a technology-driven organization and a Human-Centered design approach is in decision-making. With Outside-In
50 Reasons Prototyping Saves You Time
February 9, 2017
Summary: Prototyping is a valuable sketching process for generating UX/UI. It saves you time, saves you confusion, and helps you visualize quickly and cheaply. Here are