Archive of User Experience
Caplin to host an Agile UX Safari!
The Agile UX Meetup Group is heading to Caplin! Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 6:30 PM Caplin will be hosting an “Agile UX Safari” in a couple of weeks. It will be a little different to the last one at MindCandy (we don’t have a tree house in our boardroom!) but…
Read MoreThe Psychology of UX: Part 8
Hello and welcome back to the Psychology of UX series! Today we are going to be learning about how your unconscious affects your decision-making and how this relates to the web. Most mental processing occurs unconsciously The brain often acts without our conscious knowledge. The reason for this is that we have three…
Read MoreThe Psychology of UX: Part 7
Welcome back to The Psychology of UX series! We are now in part 7 which is all about information and our undeniable addiction to it. You can’t deny we live in an age where the average person obsessively checks their email and Facebook all day long. Endless Google queries. Troweling…
Read MoreThe Psychology of UX: Part 3
Hello again and welcome back to the Psychology of UX series! Today’s topic is all about MISTAKES. But before we begin let’s just define… What exactly is a mistake? “..a decision or action, or lack thereof, that we fear we’ll come to regret. They usually cause some degree of pain,…
Read MoreThe Psychology of UX: Intro
I originally posted this series to my blog but I thought it would also make a great addition to Platformability because at Caplin we’re very concerned with understanding our users on a deeper level than just their day-to-day lives. Ever since I found the blog ‘What Makes Them Click’ by Susan…
Read More3 Things We Learned @UX London 2011
Just last week the UX team at Caplin had the fortune of attending UX London 2011, the largest UX conference in the UK, for three days of talks and workshops. Some of the biggest names in the industry from all over the world came and shared their insights. It was…
Read MoreBreaking Development 2011
Breaking Development 2011 (Design and Development for the Mobile Web) is now over. The line up of speakers was excellent with many of the leading voices for the mobile web presenting. Although I didn’t attend I was following the Twitter stream avidly. It was was full of activity with fantastic…
Read MoreThe Company of the Future: UX-driven?
At Caplin, we’ve taken a feather out of Google’s hat with our weekly Tech Talks. At Tech Talks one of our developers shares informative or inspirational videos, talks or gives a presentation on something tech-related. It’s a great platform for livening up the atmosphere in the development team as well as sparking discussion….
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