Are your UX skills behind the power curve? Get them on track with General Assembly’s upcoming User Experience Design Immersive. The 10-week program is crafted by top practitioners in the field, with a specific focus on helping you transition into a UX design career. General Assembly in Seattle offers great technical training that can help … Continue reading
Seattle has much to offer in the way of providing workshops, seminars, get-togethers, and fun events for people who are interested in User Experience, User Interface, Visual Design, or any art-related topics. We found an array of upcoming events you might be interested in: Editorial Strategy with Misty Weaver and James Sweeny Tuesday, August 12, … Continue reading
Have you ever wondered what the heck UX Design is? Matthew Magain of UX Mastery has the answer. According to Magain, User Experience refers to the what, when, where, why, and how someone uses a product. In other words, UX is everything that affects a user’s interaction with that product. Take a look at his … Continue reading
The title is bound to get your attention. It got ours when we discovered this video by digital agency, Squareweave, on YouTube. As funny as the title is, there is also substance behind the phrase, “The user is drunk.” The principals behind good User Experience and User Interface design are all here in this clip—the designer … Continue reading
Looking for an opportunity to learn more in the field of design? Here are a couple of events you can attend in the Seattle area. Code Fellows Thursday, January 16th, 2014, 7:00 p.m. at 511 Boren Ave N. Seattle, Washington 98109 Your opportunity to level up your UX Engineering skills! Spend an evening with Dale … Continue reading
With temperatures dipping below freezing here in the Pacific Northwest, our thoughts have drifted to warmer and sunnier climates. Hawaii is sounding pretty good right now! Hayley Nichols, Founder and Principal of Allovus, and her family took a trip to Hawaii earlier this year and had a fun time exploring the beach… and the signage. … Continue reading
Once again, it’s time for the Seattle Design Festival, the Northwest’s largest public design happening. The annual event brings together experts, city leaders, and citizens to celebrate and explore the ways design improves the quality of our lives. The theme for 2013 is “Design in Health” and explores the connection between environmental design, health, and well-being. This … Continue reading
If the airport is a giant UX scenario, how about a vacation destination? In contrast, let’s take a look at how the UX is handled at someplace like Disneyland. Your starting point is just like at the airport… in a long line waiting to enter the park. The only time constraint you may have is … Continue reading
Now that summer is nearly here, most of us will be taking some time off work to enjoy a vacation. At Allovus, that got us thinking about vacationing in general, and how a trip to the airport is a lot like navigating through an interface. Actually, when you stop and think about it, the airport is … Continue reading
© MARTINA DALTON, Designer, Allovus Design UX Designers are in big demand these days. Luckily for Allovus, we have Steve Godfrey on our team. What makes Steve so special? He is the ultimate problem solver. “The ability to problem-solve is really at the core of good UI and UX design,” Steve says. “I like the … Continue reading
© STEVE GODFREY, UX Designer, Allovus Design In many ways the UI and UX Designers share some overlapping skill sets. They are both visually sensitive, and understand a great deal about the users’ needs. However, typically the UI designer will start where the UX designer leaves off. User Interface design tasks include: Creating visual explorations. Multiple compositions … Continue reading
© STEVE GODFREY, UX Designer, Allovus Design Usually smaller companies work with a “designer,” or a design “team” composed of a designer and developer when developing products. This can be an excellent choice for smaller design projects or for creating a working prototype. However, for larger projects involving a lot of developers and complex user interactions, companies … Continue reading
A great feature about the reinvention of the Cleveland Museum of Art and how their redesign, by Local Projects, is a case study in blending the physical and virtual worlds in an engaging way for museum visitors of all ages. Five great videos are embedded in the article written by Cliff Kuang, design editor at Fast Company. From … Continue reading
Chris Butler, director of Ziba Design’s Consumer Insights and Trends group, wrote this recent roundup for Fast Company and it’s worth a read. Make sure you check out Number 12: Everyone’s a Specialist. The article was featured on Fast Company’s co.Design. How did they decide what to highlight. From Butler: “Meeting over three sessions spread … Continue reading
Leave it to New York to just tell it to you straight. It doesn’t matter if we’re talking about a recent story, a prickly situation, or a standards manual. Check out the site The Standards Manual brought to you by designers Niko Skourtis, Jesse Reed, and Hamish Smyth as an homage and archival record of the first … Continue reading