2017-11-09 10:42
We're updating our website here at Thought Into Design to reflect our firmer move into education. We wanted a site that discussed the kinds of things we're offering so that people know.
But… Read More
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2017-08-11 10:50
We've just returned from a long research trip where we attended the Speciality Fine Foods Asia event in the Suntec Convention Centre in Singapore. We learned a lot of great things about the… Read More
2017-08-10 16:19
I've been invited to give the plenary talk at the PSITE conference in Tacloban, Philippines. It is a real honour to present an outline of user research and user experience design to such an… Read More
2017-02-25 12:25
In addition to work on SigmaSwiftStatistics, we're writing some statistics libraries for other languages.
We're a bit sneaky, because we find this a great way to get familiar with languages… Read More
2017-02-19 20:19
Thought Into Design Ltd is heavily involved with some research activities at the Department for International Trade (DIT). We're very excited to be collaborating with DIT on a range of resea… Read More
2017-02-18 11:13
Lately, at Thought Into Design, we've been trying out Swift. This was partially so that we could write apps for iOS and OSX (or is that MacOS now?) but it is also good to learn the foibles o… Read More
2015-02-16 09:19
I spent some time recently on Project Euler and got side-tracked by the efficient calculation of prime numbers. After using a brute force method (iterating through a range of numbers and try… Read More
2013-08-23 11:34
One idea I had a few years ago was to use the various crowd-sourcing websites as a source of willing and cheaply-paid participants for UX research.
Wait, you fool! You cannot do an hour-lon… Read More
2013-07-09 13:04
When I first started in the field (originally doing usability along with some design), it was easy to make an impact. Just think of all those nasty 1990s websites with fundamental flaws that… Read More
2013-05-19 09:22
Let's all laugh at Excel - sure, I do. When doing data analysis, it's
good for data entry but I'd hate to rely on it for anything serious.
But a while ago, I came across a good use case for… Read More
2013-02-24 21:18
Picture this: You're searching for the perfect employee and your job description rocks. Everything is perfect -- or is it? Is your JD scoring the perfect candidate? Or have you scored an own… Read More
2013-01-29 18:33
Here's a Python script for scraping synonyms from Wikipedia. You provide the core keywords, and Python (plus the BeautifulSoup module) will get the synonyms.
The last article I wrote about… Read More
2013-01-15 16:09
Here's a quick tip to get keywords to improve your search engine optimisation (SEO) using Wikipedia - for free! Enter your term into Wikipedia. If it's a brand name, enter the product type (… Read More
2013-01-13 16:28
Summary: Prolog is a logical programming language that can help craft perfect sitemaps and workflows by ensuring solutions meet all business and technical constraints. Here, I'll chat a litt… Read More
2013-01-13 14:05
Summary: We redesigned a website to be responsive using Twitter Bootstrap and JQuery to create design documentation. Bootstrap proved to be an effective tool for conventional interactio… Read More
2012-12-17 16:55
Given the mass of excellent wireframing tools, does FOSS software offer a cheap and ethical alternative? In this article, LibreOffice's Draw component gets tested for real work.
I'll admit… Read More
2012-09-19 10:15
I know that suggesting an open source tool like Inkscape for a design where Illustrator is thoroughly embedded comes across somewhat like recommending a typewriter to a blogger for writ… Read More
2012-09-08 07:04
Just in case you don't know, there's a search engine called Duck Duck Go (apologies to Gabriel and team if the spelling is incorrect!). I've been using it for a while now and even had a rap… Read More
2012-09-02 21:16
UI Interfaces, a set on Flickr.A regular update of my latest user interface designs. These come from various sources Read More
2012-08-31 07:53
Current interactions are far more complex than they used to be and will probably get even more tricky. However, the interaction language we use is finding it hard to cope.
This redesign I'v… Read More
2012-08-30 16:49
Introduction: This article is one I wrote some time ago about modelling cognition and never released. It's incomplete but might be useful to spur thought and conversation. I suspect that it'… Read More
2012-08-29 14:35
In some work for the Analytics SEO re-design, one of colleagues liked the idea of giving users some information from a drop down.
Okay, let's step back a bit. You know that on many sites in… Read More
2012-08-29 08:24
Part of my role at Analytics SEO is doing research. It sounds like an excuse to goof off and spend time messing around with natural language processing techniques, search engines and the lik… Read More
2012-08-26 09:22
Most UX designers I know are always questing for the next best wireframing tool. It's not like Balsamiq, Fireworks, Axure of whatever are bad; but UX designers, as a whole, spend an awful lo… Read More
2012-08-11 06:33
This must be my third week using open source tools for user experience and, to be honest, the experience has been okay. The tools are mostly extremely capable - the most impressive tools wer… Read More
2012-05-24 08:01
I was approached recently for a great job. After talking with Laurence O'Toole, the founder of Analytics SEO, I decided to take a full time position there.
My role is mostly UX research and… Read More
2012-01-22 01:25
UX Design Planning
Summary
When designing from a UX perspective, I find it helpful to plan all my work in a spreadsheet. This forms a useful reference throughout design and help ensure t… Read More
2012-01-18 11:26
This is the second part of my article on statistics in user experience. Part I is here and discusses types of data. In this article, we begin to see what to do with it.
Descriptive sta… Read More
2012-01-17 12:39
This article was first published on 18 January 2006.
50ms to rate a webpage!
A recent study shows that decisions about webpages may be made in the first 50 milliseconds of viewing. This… Read More
2012-01-17 12:20
This article was first published on 1 November 2005. This type of interaction crystallised thoughts I'd had for a long time. It is now commonplace though the first were introduced long befor… Read More
2012-01-17 12:11
This article was first published on 5 August 2005.
Web usability - non relevant links
“The road to hell is paved with good intentions", or so it is said. Perhaps the saying should… Read More
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