When Design Meets Data A few years ago, a design lead shared a thought-provoking statement, “If design is how it looks and ...

I discovered AI video editing the way a lot of us did—first with curiosity, then with a little obsession. One evening, I ...

How Mental Health Apps Can Balance Engagement with User Well-Being In the relentless quest for user attention, the tech ...

It is late. A caregiver is finally in bed after another day of work, kids, and managing her mother’s medications. The house ...

Text readability is often an accessibility obstacle in both real and digital worlds. I once got an invitation to an event that looked like Figure 1. Figure 1. Low-contrast text: Hard to see, hard to ...

Imagine it’s 7:00 a.m. Your phone, lying quietly on your bedside table, suddenly lights up, and your alarm rings. You sit up, turn off the alarm, and pick up your phone. Before you fully awaken or ...

Curiosity is powerful. Psychologists tell us that curiosity enhances intelligence and increases perseverance. Being curious propels us to deeper engagement, superior performance, and more meaningful ...

If you are a UX designer, you have likely felt the industry shifting beneath your feet. The culprit? Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI). It’s the topic in every team meeting, the subject of ...

We invite you to visualize the story in the above graphic (Figure 1). You answer your house door to find your friend sopping wet from a surprise rainstorm. Would you act as if the situation were ...

Years ago, when I came to Japan to teach English, it was the first time I had ever left the United States. I was on my own and I didn’t really know anything about the local culture or language. In my ...

Figure 1. There’s much more to the user experience of a library than navigating the stacks. (Credit: Mauricio Lazo/UH Libraries) Libraries may not be the first thing that comes to mind when thinking ...

Augmented reality, or AR, is becoming mainstream. Sources from TechCrunch and ABI Research to Business Insider state that the industry of AR and VR (virtual reality) combined will reach more than $100 ...