Introducing Traveler: Predictive Analytics for Philly’s Regional Rail
If you’re a regular rider of regional rail here in the City of Brotherly Love, you’ve undoubtedly encountered your fair share of weather-related delays. And likely, all you’ve ever been able to do about it is shrug your shoulders, stand around, be late, and promise yourself that you’d take an even earlier train next time. With a new app called Traveler, developed in the Arcweb Technologies Lab, those unforeseen weather delays could become a thing of the past.
Scrolling and the Inevitability of User Behavior Change
Product designers must continually rethink what they think is true about how people interact with software because, inevitably, it'll be wrong.
A Guide to Participating in Your First Hackathon
Recently we put together a guide for how large organizations can host successful hackathons. Now let's look at what first time hackathon participants need to know in order to succeed.
How to Host a Hackathon
We’ve put together a quick guide that large organizations—from banks to health systems—can use to put on successful (and useful!) hackathons.
Why We’re Excited for the Forge Conference
This year’s Forge Conference is gathering UX, product design and product development experts from across the globe from organizations like Facebook, Slack, Comcast and even NASA. Here's why you should attend...
How to Run Your Own 90 Minute Design Studio
We're big believers in the Design Studio methodology. It's that depth, though, that can sometimes make it feel a bit overwhelming to new adopters. For that reason, we've developed a condensed version...
Seven Steps To A More Perfect InVision Workflow
Prototyping isn't a step in the design process; prototyping is the design process. And as InVision continues to become one of our preferred applications to drive this process, we’re sharing some insights on how to create a more perfect InVision workflow. Why? Because better prototyping makes for better products. Here are seven steps to a more perfect InVision workflow...
UX is Like a Joke. If You Have to Explain It, It Isn’t That Good.
Good UX design must start with an understanding of your user and what task they need to accomplish.
How the Design Studio Method Democratizes Design
If software is in fact eating the world, design is leading the way. And that's why design is too important to be left to designers...
The Value of Design Thinking: An Engineer’s Perspective
Strong UI and UX design is the only way to capture and retain more of that massive-yet-fleeting attention. However, those disciplines are often perceived as afterthoughts in product development. It’s the notion that UI and UX design gets applied to the product after it’s built. And that is disastrous thinking.