In an age where humanity is increasingly lamenting its diminishing capacity for compassion and empathy, do you know what strikes me as an industry VR could be really transformative for? News media and journalism. The experience of VR is an incredibly immersive one, the user is more kinetically involved with... View Article
Anchoring is a form of cognitive bias where we as users tend to place increased emphasis on the first choice we are given when forming a decision. Anchoring and Adjustment explains how we tend to take the information provided by the anchor, and use that as the benchmark for any... View Article
I got bored about half way through this article (probably about the time it actually started talking about how to design visually for voice), but in the first quarter there are some really nice stats on voice usage. However, I take umbrage with the following image in the article. The above... View Article
Just been reading an article on Why touchscreens in cars don’t work (good article, give it a read) when I came upon a theory regarding the amount of cognitive load required to utilise Voice as an interaction method and why it’s not necessarily the preferred method for interaction for a user. Well,... View Article
The above video is a 45 minute plus introduction to email marketing. This was screen recorded along with the live audio of a presentation I gave at the company I work at. This video was for these “Library Sessions” that we run. These are supposed to be 10 minute micro-teaches... View Article
Following on from my recent post on performing UX research quickly is another example of performing this methodology to unearth a finding that I couldn’t prove. This time I turn my attention to social media share buttons. This is a topic that has already been well trodden, and they have proved... View Article
No, not the gangs of digital haters trolling everyone. I’m talking about Twitter ads: they are just terrible. How is it that Twitter have the access to all my tweets and yet all I mostly see are ad’s for PPI or gambling? I literally never talk about that. I do not... View Article
During an over email work discussion with a colleague, I was asked what my thoughts are on the following links Are UX writers the next big thing? Building Chatbots: Everything you need to know I encourage you to read those links. But in a nutshell my thoughts are: Are “UX... View Article
The desktop paradigm for all its skeuomorphism still had a learning curve when first encountered by a user. The user had to learn it interpret how to do certain tasks, clicking to open files etc. But once the basics were grasped the construct of that language fell away. It’s why... View Article
From The Next Web: “Following up on its promise from December, Facebook has begun to flag fake news stories on news feeds in the US. Questionable stories may now show a “disputed” tag underneath, with a link to a source countering the article’s claims. Facebook said it works with ABC News, Politifact, FactCheck, Snopes,... View Article