Color Contrast: Infographics and UI Accessibility
Sufficient color contrast is a prerequisite for readable text and accessible websites, and visual contrast has a significant role in the updated Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 3.0). Unfortunately, contrast is often given secondary importance by designers in lieu of other design elements. This article discusses color contrast for text readability and user interface design, the criteria for minimum color contrast of varying sizes of text, and methods to verify and improve your color contrast ratio, including interactive tools. [Read More]
Schemas: Strategizing User Experience
Schemas inform people in performing the simplest tasks to entering data in complex systems such as Electronic Health Records. People use assimilation and accommodation to adapt schemas to new situations, but overreliance on users’ accommodation affects cognitive load and usability. Understanding schemas informs a strategic user experience that focuses on cognitive skills. [Read More]
Building UX into Development: Create the Ultimate Customer Portal
A customer portal is more than just an add-on to a customer support team. Customer portals are like a second home to customers, helping them solve their problems on the go. User experience is crucial in designing a customer-centric portal and should be involved early in the development process. [Read More]
Eating Our Own Dog Food: A Metacognitive Analysis of UX Unicorns
A poll of UX professionals shows an increasing number identify as both designers and researchers while the industry complains of a decline in the depth in UX practice. This article takes an in-depth look at the metacognitive processes used in each role and the ways in which they conflict with each other, which may reduce the effectiveness of performance. [Read More]
Designing in Healthcare: Learning through Experience
A UX graduate entering an unexpected field yields career lessons gleaned from experiences in healthcare and Alzheimer’s research. [Read More]
An Introduction to Design Justice (Book Review)
A review of Design Justice, by Sasha Costanza-Chock, introduces the practice of design justice, an approach that aims to challenge structural inequalities. [Read More]
