ux/ui

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By the Numbers: Tech Roots Give DFW the Edge in UX/UI Boom

by Dave Moore | Sep 28, 2018

The user experience sector is exploding in Dallas-Fort Worth. That's a good pairing with the region's history as a high-tech hotbed.

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Resource Guide for designers, creatives, and UX/UI pros in Dallas Fort Worth.

Creative Vault: Your Guide to Resources for Designers and UX/UI Pros in DFW

by Dave Moore | Sep 27, 2018

There are plenty of area associations, events, organizations, and educational institutions to help designers brainstorm, commiserate, learn, and hone their skills. Here's a resource guide to get you started.

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Teaching the Next Evolution of UX Design Thinking

by Dave Moore | Sep 27, 2018

Multi-dimensional UX: Preston McCauley has been working to help UX professionals discover new ways to approach the craft.

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Cassini Nazir is the director of design and research for the ArtSciLab at the University of Texas at Dallas. [Photo: UTD]

Societal Urgency: UTD’s Cassini Nazir on the First-Person Experience

by Dave Moore | Sep 27, 2018

It would make sense that the best education in user-experience would involve a first-person experience. It's about finding needs and figuring out how to fill them.

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Spacee founder Skip Howard wrote the code for the computer vision technology that allows individuals to interact with surfaces, which display information in response. [Photo: Spacee]

XR: 4 North Texas Companies ‘Extend the Experience’

by Dave Moore | Sep 26, 2018

In a service economy, winners will be companies who can best anticipate customer needs and can provide the best customer experience. Enter Extended Reality: Here are some DFW companies making bets on its future.

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Norm Cox was on the Xerox team that literally built the desktop environment we use every day. [Sources: Norm Cox, Alexey-Bezrodny/iStockphoto]

The Iconoclast:
North Texas’ Norm Cox and a Legacy in Design

by Dave Moore | Sep 24, 2018

Tap a menu on your smartphone to pay for your coffee, or edit a Word doc. Either way, you can think of Norm Cox. The North Texan was on the Xerox team that developed the graphical interface that we still use today.

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Design With a Big ‘D’: Meet 6 UX/UI Experts Delivering Solutions

by Dave Moore | Sep 24, 2018

The Dallas-Fort Worth region has no shortage of thought leaders who are helping create the solutions for some of today’s most popular products. From Ben Judy at 7-Eleven to Ron Dagdag at Thyssenkrupp Elevator, here are a few you need to know.

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Design With a Big ‘D’: Design Thinkers Leading the Way

by Dave Moore | Sep 24, 2018

Whether it’s slaying piles of paper receipts at tax time or making shopping an adventure, these Dallas area design thinkers are making their marks in their respective industries. The common thread? Dogged persistence. We talk with four who caught the “experiential wave” early.

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Don Relyea, head of design at BBVA [Photo: BBVA]

Money Talks: Don Relyea Takes User Experience to the Bank

by Dave Moore | Sep 24, 2018

Don Relyea — who Incorporated a 19-person core design team to BBVA Compass within a couple weeks — says that the addition of designers to global banking firm BBVA is introducing constructive problem-solving to operations across 35 countries.

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My second year (in teaching high school English), things began looking up. I cracked the code and figured out how to motivate students. I had lessons I could improve upon. And I started getting curious — what could the sciences teach me about how we learn? Most of what I read at that time could be classified as pop psychology — secondhand accounts of “brain science” studies. ...One particular study involved our sense of smell and memory. I had been reading Robert Jutte’s 2004 book “A History of Senses,” and I stumbled upon this interesting remark: “Our sense of smell is most directly linked to memory.” Hmm — smell and memory are linked. I began to think how this could be applied to some of our creative writing assignments... Excerpt from “Seductive Interaction Design,” by Stephen Anderson [Sources: Capital One, Stephen Anderson]

Custom Build: An Acquisition and Ties to Higher Ed Led UX Thoughtleader to Capital One’s Garage

by Dave Moore | Sep 24, 2018

Q+A | Stephen Anderson, head of design at Capital One’s Garage, (literally) wrote the book on “Seductive Interaction Design.” He talks about finding talent and how design thinking is applied to daily life.

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Users First: An Interview With USAA’s Tatiana Miller

by Dave Moore | Sep 24, 2018

Q+A | Tatiana Miller, executive director of design at USAA, tells Dave Moore how the company invests in design, what she's most proud of, and how she manages some 60 creative professionals.

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