Firefox OS has a grand ideal it is pursuing: to deliver an open sourced operating system powered by the web developer community. Mozilla is trying to promote and expand the scope of HTML5 and other open web technologies on mobile devices. Generally speaking, ideals or principles are wonderful because they push work to aim for…
As a ux design consultant, I get assigned design projects with different capabilities. My current client, a leading legal research company, wanted to test whether the language used in site’s information architecture resonates. So we ran an open card sort this week. It was great. I facilitated 12 interviews with stakeholders. Here a picture of the…
eCommerce accounts for 2% of South Africa’s economy. That figure includes infrastructure, access, and the consumption of products and services. Also, the eCommerce is growing at a rate of 30% and is expected to accelerate in the coming years.
Last year, I designed a cross-platform mobile app experience for an enterprise client. The project was complex—the client had three brands and four apps each (iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7, and BlackBerry). It was a lot of work. To design those experiences, I took a hands-on approach: I downloaded the relevant SDKs and experimented with…
On a flight into New York’s LaGuardia Airport, I came across a water fountain unlike any I’d seen before. It had no buttons. At first, I thought it was broken. Where’s the button? I wondered. The only thing visible was a pair of small holes. I waved my hand in front of them, and to…
