A list of cognitive biases from Wikipedia that have been grouped by Buster Benson. Plenty of reading for the next few days/weeks/months...
Cognitive Bias Cheat Sheet
7 Sep 2016
Earn Trust Early
31 Aug 2016
Trust isn't always freely given and in fact, often needs to be earned. How do you cultivate that cycle of trust with a new client?
Video Testimonial: Screaming Circuits
31 Aug 2016
Duane Benson and Adriel Henderson from the Screaming Circuits team share the past challenges they were facing with their application, their experience working alongside Planet Argon’s team, and how our redesign of Screaming Circuits has put them ahead of their competition.
Planet Argon Designers Ask The Questions
25 Aug 2016
A great article asking designers to not shy away from asking questions that will help clients get to the core of their needs and allow designers to provide valuable solutions.
Watching our designers at Planet Argon work, I've been lucky enough to be first-hand witness to what this article outlines any designer can do for clients. Watching them listen to client and project needs and thoughtfully provide proven solutions makes participating in projects that much more fun.
Designing for Digital Health
19 Aug 2016
Brett Warren shares five principals for designing healthcare applications
Open sourcing the TechTown Portland Diversity Survey!
17 Aug 2016
For the last couple months, Planet Argon has been working with TechTown Portland to create a web representation of their 2016 Diversity Survey.
Now with the launch of the TechTown Portland Diversity Survey results, we’ve decided to also open source our code that we built for the project, using Chartist.js as our charting library.
Diversity at Planet Argon - 2016 Statistics
16 Aug 2016
Designing for Energy and Positivity: Wheel House
4 Aug 2016
When our friends at Wheel House approached us, they had a site that worked, but wasn’t what they had envisioned. It got the job done, but it lacked the positive experience they provided in the studio and the functionality they needed for their customers. This post describes the challenges at hand, and the opportunities and solutions we found when redesigning www.wheelhouse-sf.com.
Which Festival Does UX Best?
1 Aug 2016
When summertime comes, it’s a chance to get outside – barbecues, picnics, swimming, hiking, camping. And for many, it also means summer music festivals. Festivals of all genres and interests are organized every year around the world and are inseparable from the technology that makes it all happen. And it’s not just the technology that appears at the festival (like jumbo screens and holograms of dead artists). It’s also how we connect to the festival, before and during the event, that completes the experience. From schedules, to buying tickets, this is a comparison of the online experience of a few well-known (and some unknown) festivals.
The State of Testing - A Front-end Perspective
5 Jul 2016
We have reached a point where there are too many devices and browsers in existence to realistically test for all of them. Under typical constraints, we can only go so far to make sure that everything is compatible for every browser and device on the planet.