UX Foundations

This session will guide you into the world of User Experience. Through straight-forward introductions, the tools of the trade and more detailed workflows, these tutorials and articles will teach you to pay UX the attention it deserves.

Posts in this series

The Basics of Great UX
To the benefit of software and applications everywhere, UX has become an increasingly important step in the Software Development lifecycle. Even though UX is...
Justin Smith
3 Oct 2012
Web Design
First Steps in Your User Experience Workflow: Nascent UX
UX is typically an early part of the software development lifecycle, but let's look deeper into the steps a UXer should take before really beginning to put a...
Justin Smith
24 Dec 2012
Web Design
A Beginner’s Guide to Wireframing in Omnigraffle
Omnigraffle is a tool that can be use for many purposes, but today we'll explore how to use it for wireframing. I've used all kinds of applications for...
Justin Smith
8 Oct 2012
Web Design
Defining And Applying Personas to UX Design
Personas have long been integrated with UX documentation. They help us create fictional users, representative of our real users, which we can reference...
Justin Smith
2 Jul 2012
Web Design
Crafting the Experience of User Interface Messages
Designing effective and friendly user-interface messages is an art form in itself. Whilst designers spend a lot of time crafting the bulk of the main user...
Winnie Lim
14 Aug 2012
Web Design
Applying Fitts’ Law To Mobile Interface Design
Fitts' Law is an essential principle of Human-Computer Interaction theory that was formulated almost 60 years ago. It's critical to UX design for the desktop...
Justin Smith
9 May 2012
Web Design
The Psychology of Content Design
As web designers, we face a difficult task every time we sit down to produce content for the web. There's no doubt that we understand Content is King; this...
Jonathan Cutrell
9 Jul 2012
Web Design
Harnessing Social Media for Rapid Usability Testing
There are many ways of performing usability tests - all of which will get you feedback, allow you to make alterations and gradually iterate until you have a...
Sarah Kahn
10 Oct 2012
Web Design
Cultivating Trust Through Web Design
In this article we're going to discuss trust; what it means in terms of UX, potential pitfalls and how we as designers can play an important role in...
Shaun Cronin
19 Dec 2012
Web Design