Our Thoughts...
Take a glimpse into what’s new with us, things we’re tinkering with, ideas we’re pondering, stuff we’re learning, and even a few random thoughts here and there
‘The Why’ of User Experience Design Fails
In website development, UX/UI design primarily defines how websites work, how users interact with websites, and how users accomplish tasks. In our profession, we have User Centered Design methodologies to help us know how to implement web interfaces that are usable and intuitive. There are countless articles and books written [...]
Users Are Not Always Right
A while back (on another UX blog), I posted about how it’s not always good to listen to your web users. I just wanted to reiterate that concept here, since lately we, at Methink, have been getting projects where we need to actually ignore what users would traditionally want. Sometimes, [...]
Beyond Intuitive
One of the core goals of UX design is to make websites as intuitive as possible. We accomplish this by following web conventions that users are accustomed to experiencing. For example, to let users know about a required field on a form, many sites place a red asterisk (*) next [...]
User Experience is Simple
A lot of times, when people hear that we practice User Experience Design, they respond by saying, “Excellent! So you guys must produce a lot of these flashy type sites. We want our site to be real flashy and exciting too!” Well…that’s not really what we do. If the context [...]
HTML Wireframes in an Agile World
In an Agile process, sometimes there’s very little time to front load a project with an in depth UX design process. Sprints happen so rapidly, there’s often little time to fit an entire UX development cycle of sketching, wireframing, user stories, user testing, etc…and its associated multiple iterations. So what to do?
Well, [...]
