Libraries have been vital in communities for ages. Now, in the era of digital media and instant information, more people are doing research and other traditional library tasks digitally. With so many people receiving information "on the go," local Tomball and Spring-area libraries are working to evolve in the digital times.
Social media platforms are one of the main avenues libraries are connecting with others digitally.
The American Community Survey, which is...
Ready or Not – Healthcare Consumers Want a Mobile Patient Experience
Most people don’t look forward to doctors’ visits. As kids, we dreaded the needles and the medicine. As adults, we dread the time off work, the commute to the doctor’s office, and worst of all, the wait. So it’s no surprise that modern healthcare consumers are eager to bypass all that. Accustomed to getting everything from banking services to entertainment on demand, they are ready to approach their healthcare...
Microsoft’s AI writes code by looting other software
Artificial intelligence has taught itself to create its own encryption and produced its own universal 'language'. Now it's writing its own code using similar techniques to humans.
A neural network, called DeepCoder, developed by Microsoft and University of Cambridge computer scientists, has learnt how to write programs without a prior knowledge of code.
First reported by the New Scientist, the system works by taking lines of code from existing programs and combining...
UX is UI
A meme can travel halfway around the world while nuance is putting on its shoes.
Ideas bounce around the Twitters, endorsed and adopted wholeheartedly through fear, surprise, or a fanatical dedication to the church of UX. Mobile-first, responsive over m-dot, prototypes over wire frames. These truths we hold to be self-evident. Complex and contextual ideas, reduced to tweetable dogma.
So too the images which attempt to explain User Experience. The...
‘We do not see upside’: London-based analyst calls ‘neutral’ after Snap’s London IPO road show
Snap Inc. took its initial-public-offering road show to London on Monday, looking to persuade potential UK investors to buy up the company's stock, but one London-based analyst remains "neutral" about the company's ability to drive upside beyond its initial price range of $14 to $16 a share.
Atlantic Equities research analyst James Cordwell did not attend the presentation on Monday but spoke with clients who did. (Atlantic Equities is...
Four Digital Retail Problems and the Answer to All
We are living in the digital age – where online shopping rules and midnight Black Friday purchasing is now being conducted primarily from the couch. But behind the scenes of retailers, combining digital services with existing brick and mortar operations isn’t a walk in the park.
According to Gartner’s 2016 Chief Supply Chain Officer survey, 57 percent of CSOs listed the sales shift from physical stores to online retail as one...
Tech Drivers that Create a Good User Experience
Only a minority of organizations are able to provide a very good user experience (UX), so IT and line-of-business leaders are turning to a number of emerging technologies to improve these interactions, according to a recent survey from UserTesting. The accompanying "2017 UX and User Research Industry Survey Report" predicts that artificial intelligence (AI) will likely have the biggest impact in this area over the next five years....
The top 7 ways to streamline forms and user journeys
The user is the focus of any website, but poor UX design can make or break your site and crush conversion rates.
A brand’s website is the shop front of any business and first impressions are everything. The user experience design of the site is the deciding factor, as to whether a user stays on the site to look around, or jumps away to find something better. Read More...
Banking UX Design Challenges and Opportunities in 2017
User Experience (UX) in banking is about human feelings, impressions and behaviours while using banking digital interfaces. For my UXDA agency the aim of banking UX engineering is to create financial services that matches users’ needs with banking capabilities and are easy and pleasant to use. So, let’s outline some general Do’s and Don’t’s in banking UX for 2017 and reveal how UX can help banks to enhance their customer involvement next...
The Most Important Design Jobs Of The Future
Yesterday's graphic designers are today's UX designers. Will tomorrow's UX designers be avatar programmers, fusionists, and artificial organ designers? Yes, according to the illustrious roster of design leaders we spoke with here. Read More...