How UX designers can leverage status games, social capital, and network effects in the design of social platforms.

From gaming pods to e-ink laptops to a gel that lets you safely hit your hand with a hammer, these are the products that excite us most.

Data from 343 companies provide a baseline to understanding typical approaches for selecting journey-mapping applications, research methods, contributing roles, and map components.

Visual design only scratches the surface of what you need to consider when thinking about the user experience.

A Review of Research on How Users Hold Their Smartphones and Tablets

To understand the multiple types of delight, consider Don Norman’s three levels of emotional processing (visceral, behavioral, and reflective), which he describes in his book Emotional Design.

There is a strange ritual that web developers around the world have been perpetuating from the dawn of computers to modern days. This ritual is the implementation of authentication. This article is Eric Burel’s attempt at making this ritual less obscure. You’ll learn about tokens, authorization, CORS, credentials, HTTP headers, and such. It shouldn’t have to take a wizard to implement a good authentication system. Just a good banker!

Within the next six months, about 40% of U.S. marketers plan to fire their advertising agency. The source: a November 2022 survey by the agency-brand matchmaker SetUp, which talked to such brands as Coca-Cola, Delta Air Lines, Warner Bros., UPS, Discovery, and Home Depot, to name a few.

According to Apple tracker Mark Gurman, Apple could be readying its new headset at the expense of its other devices, which could see less upgrades this year.

We sometimes think of personas as final artifacts, when, in reality, personas are merely a representation of data, and data can change. An artifact that is too polished or difficult to update may result in an outdated and unused persona.