Experience Learning Too

21/04/2021

My role with Elavon and friends at Opayo closes today. It's sad and I'm looking to a bright future with DocuSign. It'll be fabulous if the experience of the recruitment, selection, and onboarding is any measure.

Why settle for less? Get the security, mobility, and reliability you need to digitally transform your business.

06/04/2021

Amazon Echo and I agree in their Terms that their devices respond to, “Alexa...” So why should, “Hey, Siri” cause it to respond? Should we lose trust - not in useful technologies and every bit in the people who program them?

24/02/2021

Just for fun, our MSc UX Design project submission for a speculative design proposed an in-ear translator for around 2025-2030. A World first product is actually emerging in 2021.

Comparing our MSc UX Design speculative design project"s Sigma in-ear translator concept against an emerging world first solution.

26/11/2020

Serious eye candy is returning to our web spaces. All of it can be inclusive to keyboard navigators and screen reader users. I wonder how much is?

Here are Top 10 Web Design Trends that you will see in 2020. We have picked the most popular designs from Dribbble and we predict & assuming these will becom...

01/11/2020

Accessibility. It depends? Design wisely? An introduction to the intricacies of hide and show HTML dialogs and my frustration with ableist guidelines.

I want to do the best for all of our users inclusively and at most every turn I find with accessibility, "it depends" actually translates to, "so what?" Dialogs just stink.

21/10/2020

Platform (UI) performance support isn’t “training”. Think of it in 3 stages:

1. Setting expectations with meaningful micro-copy, labeling, orientation, and direction of every data exchange to manage progress and errors.
2. Giving meaningful, executable, and contextual hinting and feedback when No.1 fails.
3. Offering documentation using links to context-matched support (i.e. not a manual!). Context, Orient, Guide.

Create and work to a Basic User Journey for each interaction and cognitive touch point using personas, scenarios, and common sense.

Read more about my Basic User Journey:

ADDIE is an adaptive user centric UX design process for enterprise based on how we Experience Learning Too

18/10/2020

Our family surveillance, tracking, and communication technology is installed openly. We each benefit knowing where we are at times and can disable the apps that report our location. It’s not control. It’s family. On the other hand, as with any technology it is open to abuse. Perhaps here again is reason to have a licensed single-access to a secure Internet? Then our apps and tech could enjoy lower levels of security because anyone accessing them can be identified. What have you to hide? Freedom? You want freedom you can stay on the General Internet with all the thieves and scumbags that force these levels of account security??

How smart devices are exploited for domestic abuse

Two women explain how their partners turned internet-connected gadgets into a means of control.

18/10/2020

Discussing an example of when we accept that and rely on our users adapting to our design when we should be accommodating their specific needs. Screen reader access to our special character rules is one pattern. In this blog I give a summary of the problem and discover solutions.

Adding usability and accessibility to special HTML characters and punctuation for screen reader and visual users

22/08/2020

‘Older’ people aren’t inflexible or resistant to change or learning new processes. They are sick of it. Early adoption of fashion and tech leading to littering the attic, garage, or other space. Betamax, cassettes, VHS, VHS-c, MiniDisc, CD, DVD, BluRay, BluTooth, Word Processors, fecking how many phones and different SIM card form factors!? Even domestic phones with ‘legacy’ plugs or sockets. Good Sinclair, Microsoft, Sony, and other computer programs and apps or TVs and radios no longer supported and the only good news left is on vinyl. All died before the full value of their price could mature. So next time you update your UI, bare in mind those people who have adapted, updated, and modified so much already. Do it for a positive purpose and because it’s needed.

20/08/2020

You have to giggle. An example of UI design meets production and screams half-shod? Showcasing the Denon N10 HiFi's minimal footprint. Well, I can't see it! Sigh.

What process should pick this up? And what's the quickest fix?

12/08/2020

Art using ‘only’ HTML and CSS by Oscar. Inspiring and leading an edge in delightful, reproducible, and creative user interface design?

SVG filters and CSS shadows...

18/07/2020

The web articles will remain and the ‘company’ is closing down 🙂 I’ve been busy studying while enjoying a full-time contract roll, had no time for freelancing, and all that accounting nonsense is mad expensive without revenue to justify it. I’m looking forward to adapting to the change!