With the release of the Visual Studio 11 beta comes a new tool for designing screens: PowerPoint Storyboarding. It's an add-on for PowerPoint that might at first seem a little underwhelming, but the ...

User experience (UX) -- the most important piece of application delivery -- is often misunderstood. That's the view of Aaron Sanders, who states that UX often gets confused with user interface (UI).

Design is a rather broad and vague term. When someone says “I’m a designer,” it is not immediately clear what they actually do day to day. There are a number of different responsibilities encompassed ...

Editor's Note: This article has been updated on August 28, 2023 to include new data and information. In the digital age, the way a product or service feels to users can make or break its success. At ...

User interface (UI) design is a very well-known term, but information architecture (IA) is not. Yet, both are indispensable components of user experience (UX) design, and they are intertwined. This ...

Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...