Author: Leo Melamud
Navigating UX roles: from UX prototyper to senior designer
In the dynamic field of User Experience (UX), there appears to be some confusion among recruiters regarding the types and levels of UX roles. I’ve encountered queries ranging from whether I focus on research or only handle wireframes and prototypes to receiving job offers for junior-mid level positions where expectations were unclear. Recognizing this ambiguity, […]
How Can We Teach Machines?
Siri, Alexa, Ok Google – all have some degree of understanding of us, humans and capable of learning from us. In this light, Google Ai Experiments present some ideas and tools based on human-computer interaction that lead to machine learning essentially making software smarter and personalized. Applications of such methods can be enormous, as self-taught programs will […]
Design Trends of 2017
2017 design trends emerged from digital era. Recently posted on Behance 2017 Design Trends Guide provides an interesting collection of examples and insights about current visual and interactive design trends, which includes user interfaces, layout, logos, color, typography, photography and more. While this guide focuses mainly on visual style, it also displays some compelling examples […]
Lean UX vs. Agile UX, or just confusing terminology?
Information Technology as any other fabrication activity have its processes to make digital products, software and websites. As any process, IT can be organized and optimized into something, e.g named “waterfall”. We also heard names labeled – Lean, Agile and UX (user and consumer experience) – nowadays, many of these are “buzz-words” used by developers to describe their process. Although, often project stakeholders have mixed […]
Revealing User Experience design process
The buzz world of “user experience” or “UX” has sometimes been ambiguous and nonspecific. Over time, user experience has been defined as large as universal attempt to improve life and working environments, and as narrow as experience of better understanding and using a software or a device. On many occasions I was asked about my definition […]
The 15 Most Brilliant New Ideas from Business Insider
Innovation is an intrinsic trait of a true designer, thought this post in Business insider is interesting and self-explanatory. The 15 Most Brilliant New Ideas We’ve Seen This Fall – Business Insider.
Thomas Heatherwick: Building the Seed Cathedral
A future more beautiful? Architect Thomas Heatherwick shows five recent projects featuring ingenious bio-inspired designs. Some are remakes of the ordinary: a bus, a bridge, a power station … And one is an extraordinary pavilion, the Seed Cathedral, a celebration of growth and light. via Thomas Heatherwick: Building the Seed Cathedral | Video on […]
Gaze Interaction with Tobii Eye Tracking Natural, Effortless, Mind-Blowing
Tobii Gaze is transforming the way we use computers to communicate, play and work. It creates an easy and intuitive interface that uses your natural eye movements. Gaze is fun, easy and immersive. Create mind-blowing user experiences by adding Tobii Gaze to your software. Integrate Tobii’s world-leading eye tracking OEM designs into your next generation […]
Charlie Todd: The shared experience of absurdity
Charlie Todd, an event-designer is changing people’s everyday routines, perception of time and place, shocking and entertaining, and maybe opening possibilities for mass psychological treatment. Charlie Todd causes bizarre, hilarious, and unexpected public scenes: Seventy synchronized dancers in storefront windows, “ghostbusters” running through the New York Public Library, and the annual no-pants subway ride. In […]
Mr. Freeman project – animated political satyr of Russia
Mr. Freeman project is a Russian animated web series named after its main character. This series is a revelation and eloquent, graphic critique of current politics, state of mind, social life of contemporary Russia. Done using black and white animated drawings, it uses current jargon and strong language expressions, sometimes shocking, senseless and cynic. The […]