A Brain Computer Interface is a direct communication pathway between an enhanced or wired brain and an external device. Initial research on BCI began at DARPA an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military for defense and nation state protection purposes. The…
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User Experience Design in 2017 & Beyond
As a User Experience Designer, a great deal of my efforts are spent on the intricacies and nuances of this niche area. ‘User Experience Design’ is arguably an output of imagination, and critical to growth in the Digital Era we live in. By evaluating the pulse of the design industry, it easy to see how the…
User Interface Design/Experience and Usability in the Middle East
(The context of this article is Usability and User Interface Design/Experience in digital products and services in the Middle East Region, specifically in Saudi Arabia. The content should not be taken as a science, but rather an opinion, from real working knowledge of design industry and know-how) Lately I have been working on a lot…
Why User Experience will Dominate in The Era of Digital Transformation
The pace of digitization is picking up at an unprecedented rate in the last 36 months. Every single day, around the world. Almost every single management professional of the tech industry is working on an RFP to digitize an existing industry or sector. Thousands of developers working on new apps and technologies, that have the potential…
CXO: Chief Experience Officer – Design Thinking at C-Level
A ‘Chief Experience Officer’ is an individual who is responsible for the overall user experience (UX) of an organization and/or it’s projects. This position has arrived mostly due to a rapidly changing design and technology landscape, a by-product of digitization which requires good design thinking at the leadership and implementation level. It is a holistic and unifying field that blends user, business,…
Haptic Feedback – Innovation in User Experience
“I was training at BodyMasters, and my headphones were on, blasting out my regular dose of Trance music to keep me motivated, though the music sounded awesome, there was something strange, i couldn’t feel anything, other than the rough metal texture of the bar is was holding on to curling the weight” To me this…
User Experience Design Challenges in Military/Defense Domain
The current user experience design trends can be characterized as an art form, and less of a science. Experience design depends on individual designer’s judgement than on any scientifically provable application or knowledge. As a career, User Experience Design is best practiced by individuals who are truly passionate about the field, rather than just academically equipped or coming in from…
Designing Frictionless User Experiences
We live in a world that is not free from friction, even the tectonic plates that make up the earth’s land mass glide against each other. They metaphorically express their opinion, and communicate their presence to each other. Similarly in User Experience, there is friction that can be interpreted as digital interactions that inhibit the…
UX: Flat Design VS Skeuomorphism
Over the last 50 years, humanity has undergone many transformations many which are depending on technology as a tool enabling us to think and interact in different ways. As technology becomes cheaper, faster, and more accessible to people of all social and economic stature, the boundaries between the rich and the poor, the elite and…
The Art of User Experience Design
How do I define ‘UX’? In short UX is a very large territory, albeit a very super specialised one too. Obviously, for me UX is about design. Secondly it’s about something functional that serves a good purpose, and is easy to use. Growing up in Jeddah, i was constantly surrounded by people from many different…
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